“...somehow still-on variety show”

“revealed his plans to confront fellow wearers of asses for hats”

“I’m not sure why Osaka thinks she has some sort of right to not participate in a requirement of her job that most professional athletes in the U.S. deal with”

I think it’s entirely possible, given the prevalence of asympthomatic carriers and mild cases, the fact that it being identified in Yunnan does not mean that there weren’t cases in bats closer to Wuhan, and the fact that the virus can be carried by animals other than bats. It would only take one truck driver to pick…

You know, it’s all too likely that people abused by Weinstein are *also* getting financially screwed by this turn of events, so maybe framing it as cosmic justice is kind of repugnant?

Back in the day, Abbess positions were just as subject to the sort of bribery and lobbying by aristocrats as were bishopherics. There was at least one in 18th century France in which is was worth killing for. Abbesses (and other senior nuns) could be real power-players.

Cult is (in English, anyway) a loaded word that is used to delegitimize and oppress minority beliefs/ethnicities often enough that I personally am reluctant to apply it unless it’s a clear and obvious fit. “Weird beliefs” is a feature of all religions. I might be overly sensitive to this, as my spouse is a member of a…

“Excuse my naiveté, but I thought we had all agreed the answer was maybe yes years ago.”

I think Jezebel’s written at least half a dozen articles dunking on Yang, including publicizing PR stunts like this. I can’t think of one where they’ve so much as mentioned another candidate  that they’d prefer over him.

What makes you think Tlaib doesn’t understand the role of the President? She couldn’t possibly understand it less than you appear understand the role of a Congressperson, or, you know, an engaged citizen.

What a private citizen with no role in the administration of the law believes about a person’s guilt or innocence does not infringe upon their civil rights. See? I can assert things too!

If my friend tells me a mutual acquaintance physically assaulted them, and I believe that friend, than the mutual acquaintance is someone who committed assault as far as I am concerned whether my friend pursues charges or not. Americans are allowed to form their own conclusions, based on what they believe, and they…

No. The point of research is to expand knowledge. That doesn’t always mean discovering things. Oftentimes it means observing, quantifying, testing, characterizing and contextualizing. The author clearly knows nothing about academic publishing (relying on the abstract to say anything meaningful about the paper is embara…

As already pointed out, individual opinion is not a court. Innocent before proven guilty is a legal standard to be followed before imposing legal sanction. That is the only context where it a rule, everywhere else it is comments-section noise lacking even rhetorical value. Individuals have no obligation to follow it…

That’s an issue that will occur with any pronoun (i.e., “he” in an article that refers to more than one man). Good writing is *supposed* to ensure that there is no ambiguity about whom a pronoun refers, no matter what the pronoun is. If there is confusion, it’s because of the writing, not the pronoun. There is no…

Lot of people on this thread struggling with “descriptive” and “prescriptive.”

Given that the title “Economic Working Paper... Is Exactly As Bad As You’d Think” is over an article written by someone that did not read the paper under discussion, you’d think there’d be a bit more sympathy for crafters of attention-grabbing headlines.

“And it turns out the very premise of this study is scientifically unsound, as it uses BMI as a means of measuring “fitness”

I think it’s a bit more specific than that: I think Rogan accepts the legitimacy of being criticized for not not crafting jokes that land. I think he objects to being criticized on moral grounds.

Great strategy Jezebel: rather than correct the previous Dirtbag on Mulaney/Munn, just run a new, more accurate version of it and pretend the previous one didn’t happen.