Drunk Mario wins; the dog is a close second.

THANK YOU. There are feminists in many religions and they want support and recognition. Being a jackass isn't helping them.

I hope Denton sees this and other comments like this and and takes them to heart. No one should hear this from employees: What we've dealt with these past few months finally reduced me to tears.

Thank you, Joel, thank you tech team. What we've dealt with these past few months finally reduced me to tears. No one should see this stuff, let alone many, many times.

I mentioned this somewhere else yesterday, but it should be here, too, even if it's just a technical clarification: most of these trolls weren't using our non-IP-tracked, anonymous "Burner" accounts. They were logging in using throwaway Twitter accounts as verification. So while the overall comment/groupchat system…

Sincere thanks to the tech and product people — both New Yorkers and Hungarians — for working tirelessly and staying up until the wee hours to deal with this. Köszönöm.

Glad to see the return of pending comments, even if it means it will take longer for people to see my hilarious jokes and I won't get to see gifs and pics.

As for replies to readers' comments, you be notified if something has pending status — but you won't automatically see that comment in your threads unless you choose to reveal it.

Obviously this is the first worldiest of first worldy problems right now, but how do we know if we're going to be bumped back to the grays? I've managed to claw my way out of the land of the unapproved/unstarred and unseen something like three times over the last four years across comment system updates, and the…

No, you're still not getting it. In a magical world in which police also follow the law and are held accountable when they don't, yes, that would be the way to do it. In a world in which they can freely kill people of color, cooperation is neither a desirable nor wise course of action. It takes a special kind of…

I'm not certain you can separate them entirely. Some would say that black men, being the most marginalized and demonized class of people in the country, are simply the canaries in the coal mine of our new and improved police state.

And the media is complicit in this also. All the people who showed up at Ted Bundy's ranch with guns blazing were called "supporters" and the protestors in Ferguson were referred to as an "angry mob" on Saturday, 24 whole hours before any kind of looting started. Sometimes it all just seems so hopeless, and feels like…

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

It must be terrible for black parents to have to tell their children "Even if you're unarmed, even if you're well-behaved, even if you do everything right, there is still a chance that a white police officer will murder you in the street with your hands up."

The context is that he was unarmed and had his hands in the air. The context is that police murder a black person every 28 hours in the US. The context is hundreds of years of dehumanization of black people: lynchings, slavery, you name it. The context is the rights that we are supposedly afforded by the Constitution,…

I dunno, it's pretty hard to come with a context for "unarmed teen gets shot multiple times by police officer after running away following a physical altercation" that makes much sense.

The craziest thing to me in the aftermath of these killings is how accepting most people are of the militarization of the police. I fully expect that when video footage is found (dashcam or otherwise), Mike Brown will have done nothing that could warrant a reaction with fatal force, but people will still look and…

I had to explain the crab theft to my white grandparents and in-laws at least a dozen times.

You become a Vegan in Purgatory?