I respect their right to have freedom of speech. However, in certain organizations and certain jobs you give up that right of your freedom of speech temporary [sic] while you serve that job or while you play in an NFL game.

But didn’t they read David Brooks’s column?!

(From the incomparable Trump Leaks. If you’re not reading them, you’re missing out.)

Oh, I didn’t know scientists could quantify character these days.

What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I’m talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

You guys should listen to more NPR. You would have been way ahead of the NYT curve, and you’d know that Matteo Renzi was basically like, “Oh fuck no, this is a terrible idea and I know what terrible ideas look like, I’ve met Berlusconi several times.”

I mean, he sucks, but to put him in the same sentence as a rapist seems dramatically unfair.

please tell me the video whence this gif comes.

The State Department sets foreign per diem rates, which I would link here except that Chrome is telling me they might be trying to steal my passwords.

The Episcopalian in me is horrified that Evangelicals think she’s one of them.

I’m totally sympathetic to the complaints about losing the headphone jack, but don’t use headphones while driving, Christ, what is wrong with you?

I know several sets of parents who lets their children and grandchildren interact with a pedophile. I don’t think it’s a choice I would make, but it’s the one they’ve made nonetheless. It’s a real struggle for me to wrap my head around the community ties that make one less likely to re-offend and the visceral reaction…

I can’t believe you left out noted pig-fucker David Cameron.

Abdi and the Golden Ticket! Definitely worth listening to.

I don’t think pixelating his face does much to protect him.

Surely the decision to publish this photo is equally (if not more) damaging.

PV’s got a lot of “Africa this” and “Africa that,” which makes me think that they don’t know a goddamn thing about any of the countries that comprise Africa. There is so much trash in this thread.

Because deepest, darkest Africa is a never-ending pit of violence and despair?

Morocco has higher internet penetration than China. South Africa, Tunisia, and Nigeria have higher rates than Mexico. Kenya beats out Ukraine.

You’re doing GREAT, Hudson, but next time try for something bleaker for Gizmodo After Dark.