No, really?

The headline made me shudder. Imagine having a million dollars to bet, and the freedom that kind of wealth would afford you to live any kind of life you want, and then using that freedom to write for Jezebel. Like, you’d need to be far more of a sociopath than Van Houten to do that.

“In general, it’s riskier for pregnant *women* to get covid than non-pregnant *people*”

Merriam Webster, Meaning 2: “one who differs in opinion from an accepted belief or dogma”

“Another woman, again very loudly, was praising a recent New York Times opinion piece on education reform, while yet another explained the testing paths of New York City students for getting into high school. It was a lot of showboating about recycled opinions that had long ago lost their potency.”

So glad you said this. Few things piss me off more than someone using evolution to say that moral questions are “meant” to be resolved in a particular way. That’s not science.

I’m not vegan, or even vegetarian, which makes me familiar enough with cattle products to recognize a bullshit argument when I see it.

Well, you can say that, and you can believe it if you like, but and I can say I did my undergrad in political science (I did!) and that is not how I would describe my introductory courses at all. More to the point, the original statement needs that understanding to be explicit or confidence that your interpretation…

“Heretic” can be used outside of religion, but it still requires the context of a set of beliefs from which to be heretical: “political science 101" isn’t a belief set unless you’re one of those types that believes that all university education is progressive indoctrination. Without that context, heretic is the wrong…

“The golden horde Musk sits on top of”

The lack of a date doesn’t make it tongue in cheek, it makes it a statement that she was willing to help cover up a murder that lacks a date. That’s it.

“Ireland Baldwin shared her birthing story and forgot to mention daddy Alec Baldwin (i.e. intentionally left him out because he’s a dirtbag).”

It’s an explicit statement of her willingness to help her son cover up a murder, being used as evidence that she helped her son cover up a murder. You’re right, it’s barely relevant, and I can’t imagine why they bothered to try to have it excluded from the proceedings.

That bit’s easily written off as a joke (though it probably wasn’t). The rest of the letter was clearly begging her son to not kill himself without directly expressing that she thinks he’s going to kill himself and that she knows why. It wasn’t “quirky light hearted” - it was manic. Probably trivial to request other…

Thank you. Pointing out hypocrisy is weak-sauce criticism under the best of circumstances, but this isn’t even really hypocrisy in terms the “values” they’re “defending.”

I’ll be honest, Rich’s writing is deeply irritating to me, so I’m not really inclined to be fair. It’s not the not knowing - not knowing every business in a city is pretty normal - it’s the making a point of saying he didn’t know. The information isn’t intended to help help the reader understand the story, it’s…

“She was overseas playing for a Russian team because she did not make enough money playing for the WNBA alone.”

“at New York’s Hard Rock Hotel (which I didn’t even know New York had!).”

To be fair, he was about six years old back then, you can’t expect him to know who Jill Stein is.

Yes, Rich offered a very trenchant critique of transportation policy under Buttigieg. Clearly that’s the main beef here.