What the fuck? First off, have a little fucking respect. Secondly, the fact that language hasn’t been accurately reflecting the gender spectrum isn’t Scout’s fucking fault.

humans are still defined between male and female bookends, because that’s just how we are

Grammar is bullshit not recognized by linguists other than in the sense that “People use these forms and we should describe it like good scientists but it doesn’t mean they are right or wrong”

Okay friendo, whatever your conception of language rules is is probably wrong. Sure, there’s general usage descriptions, such as the Cooperative Principle, which describes a principle that speakers in a conversation follow a lot of the time and seems to be helpful, and the maxims that go with it. But the thing is that…

To add, for anyone who wants to question your factual note of centuries of singlular they use in English:

Well, certainly your narrow experience can be applied to the entire world at large and every single instance of everything that happens anywhere, ever.

In the English language “they” is both singular and plural and has been used as the “singular they” for around 700 years. It’s why the phrase “they are” can refer to both an individual or a group of several. The idea that it only refers to groups of people is a modern misconception largely pushed by “grammarians” who…

I like Hillary, but this press tour for her book feels ill-timed and not at all helpful. I don’t understand the purpose of rehashing the exact same points we’ve heard before. Who cares anymore about her fight with Bernie? That’s like Howard Dean and John Kerry going at it after ‘04.

Ms. Manning leaked far more than casualty counts and the helicopter weapon cam video of the killing of the journalist team. She leaked 750,000(!) documents, including over 250,000 diplomatic cables, disclosing the names of intelligence source (for instance Afghan informants who put their own safety at risk in…

Thank you for writing about the Smokies with such respect and love. As a Tennessean it means a lot!

Great post. I grew up in Knoxville and have many vivid memories of catching fireflies (we called them lightning bugs) in the summers. I’ve lived in the DFW area for the last 17 years and it’s amazing how few fireflies I see. Maybe two or three each summer. We lived near downtown Dallas when we first moved here and I…

I’ve really learned to appreciate the mountains as I’ve gotten older. There are plenty of reasons to move away but Im glad I ever did. My town, a little further east than Gatlinberg and Knoxville, has really blossomed the last few years. It’s a beautiful area and I love being able to hike the Appalachian trail on a…

What disturbs me most of all in this is that the White House, through Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deigned to comment on this—and more specifically, that they effectively called for Ms. Hill to be fired.

The last time I checked, the First Amendment exists specifically to protect citizens against government retribution for…

lol Calm down Sunshine. No one is calling a machine racist. However, the people who appropriated a word that originated in reference to Hispanic/Latin convenience stores are kinda racist.

The white supremacists over at RedState are having a grand old time trying to reconcile being “Pro-Family™” and tearing families apart.

“Nope, don’t care. Take your sandy vag elsewhere.”

Anyone who casually says “go take your sandy vag” simply CANNOT be a sleazy dude. You don’t come off that way AT ALL with your casual racism and willful ignorance against the history of a word.

The fucking love tap on the back of the helmet is priceless.

I like how this asshole is complaining about people getting emotional and hurting HIS feelings. Like shit, actual people are being harmed by this. There are people who comment here are on DACA and are freaked the fuck out. I’d trade any of them for this laundry loser.

Actually LEOs who commit abuses are definitely deserving of all the ire they get.