Why is it zero sum? I care about both. I don’t eat meat as well. Caring about horrific conditions for dogs in Korea is not hypocritical in any way.  

An important distinction is that dogs in Korea are often killed slowly and painfully on purpose. There is a belief that a torturous death makes the meat taste better and be an aphrodisiac via the increased adrenaline and cortisol.

They are absolutely the same kind of dogs that we take as pets here.

Here’s a mostly great breakdown about how George was a great example of healthy masculinity. He was kind, sensitive, and obviously into but not pressuring Leslie Mann.

I read it as actually being the center of the piece, and Fraser’s motivation for doing the interview to begin with, but something that couldn’t be approached directly. I can see how some readers would think it was downplayed, but I thought the structure actually reinforced the message that the sexual assault was a…

The Fraser story of having a man grope him is so specific, and told with such squirming discomfort and embarrassment, that it’s kind of hard not to believe. It seems to have had a profound effect on someone who was feeling vulnerable, and that’s a hallmark of assault - the kind we have long expected women to just…

This is what I think it is: they are terrified beyond all reason that a woman could have a better time or result than a man in identical events. If, say, Lindsey Vonn raced the same hill as Bode Miller and recorded a better time, they would LOSE THEIR SHIT.

I wish you were a lady, because by your logic, that rant would have been two to three paragraphs shorter.

Ahhh Fox News you’re so predictable.

Thank you for the (unintentional) shout out to my home town of Champaign Il!

The darkly hilarious bit to me is that the Reagan coalition’s major motivation (besides racism) was hatred of Russia and fear that we weren’t doing enough to oppose them. 36 years later, the last President of the Reagan coalition was literally installed by Russian interference.

Because stupid opinions deserve to be denigrated, not celebrated. Two plus two doesn’t equal five, no matter how much someone might want to believe it, and giving them a platform in one of the most prominent media sources in the world to spout idiocy does all of us a disservice.

It’s the New York Times opinion section. They’re America’s paper of record, it’s okay to hold them to a higher standard than the clickbaiting “just asking questions” stuff they’ve been putting out recently and the voices they’ve chosen to promote over other, arguably more deserving, ones

If she didn’t finish last, it’s only because some more talented skiers actually tried some tricks and crashed, not because she skied better. The skiers who finished below her were actually competing.

To me, that’s the unsavoury part of this. If an overmatched skier from Tibet gets to the Olympics despite facilities or coaching or funding and represents his country gamely, fair ball, that’s the Olympics ideal. But this dilettante gamed the system in a way that only a 1%er could, by flying all over the world at the…

But that is the issue. 60% of what she did was sitting at a keyboard. She’d check the list of a minor FIS event to see if the number of entrants was less than 30, if so she’d book airfare, show up and spend 2 minutes on her “sport”.

Everyone is moving toward the right?

Dude. Okay. So I hesitated posting that specifically because I don’t want to relitigate the primary AT ALL.