First with Kenneth Goldsmith and now with this woman - why do these people not realize what a terrible idea it is to appropriate someone else’s real tragedy in a way that only serves to increase the volume of your own voice at the expense of the voices of those who are still truly suffering.

And somehow their salami, ham, etc. is actually flavored turkey. This troubles me.

This makes so much more sense! I was having trouble reconciling the positive things I've heard about the film with the content of the song (too over-the-top, saccharine, etc.). I wish more people would just add this disclaimer.

... or possibly anti-colonialism.

I'm very glad you put this piece together, Erin. I read the Daily Beast piece when it came out and was hoping for a critique from Jezebel. The very fact that so much of the Facebook exchange was left out of the Daily Beast piece is extremely telling and disconcerting - Young wasn't willing to include even tiny…

Oscar Isaacs isn't white - this, of course, does not change the fact that, yes, there are far too many white people, but it shouldn't go unacknowledged.

This picture really makes them look like the heads of every single joint sorority-fraternity Spring Fling committee.

A Vince Guaraldi sample and excerpts from the Sony leak - this has everything! What a fun looking family too.

As a current Brooklynite who has spent a good number of years drinking in a good number of places, I will say that Tucson, Arizona has some of my favorite places to drink in the country. If only they stayed open later...

Those poor, abused semicolons.

I wonder how long it will be until half the profiles say something along the lines of "Not looking to cuddle, just want to meet some new people."

Does that guy seriously take his phone out and start texting in the middle of having a (broadcasted!) conversation with someone he's never met before? Even if it is Sarah Palin... Ugh.

I'm pretty sure that that anecdote is supposed to be a joke.

I'm really inclined to believe that this is satire, because it really is describing the worst group of guys possible (former Ivy League frat guys in Patagonia vests and basketball shorts?).

Aerosmith has some relevant thoughts on the subject:

I really, really wish just one teacher would have shown up in a "FUCK THE POLICE" t-shirt, just to prove that there is still a little goodness left in the world.

I like that Jezebel's running with the "living and fucking" angle while io9's got the "dying and shitting" angle. I'd say this demonstrates the whole half-empty/half-full "perspective matters" thing, except that no matter how you look at it there's mites doing gross stuff on all our faces all the time. Yuck.

Teaching's a hard gig, and hard gigs call for hard drugs.

Well, Michael Showalter was the weatherman.

I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not a woman. Hell, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're a white man. (Please do correct me if I'm wrong.)