Yeah, this hits the Texas statute pretty squarely. The driver of a car who comes up behind some cyclists is supposed to be aware of the substantial risk he will hit the cyclists and cause major injury/death. Failing to perceive that is a pretty gross deviation from the standard of care an ordinary person would…

...unless they hire Stephen Schwartz to write two more songs for him and roll three other supporting characters’ roles into his to give him more to do and make it worth the money to hire him. 

I’m just curious where you get the idea that negligence generally isn’t criminal. In fact, negligence is generally explicitly criminal in situations like this. 

Laundromats are only theoretically still a thing. My city is dominated by renters and off the top of my head I can only think of three laundromats, and none of them are near my house. I don’t own a car and I’m not walking a mile with two bags of dirty laundry.

Counterpoint, I am a pizza snob who has lived in major pizza snob locations such as the NYC metro area, and I think Domino’s is fine. It is not remotely on the list of the most revolting pizza places in the region I live in now, which includes numerous other big chains that I find far far worse than Dominos. Roughly…

It is *revolting* to me that he refers to his own child as “Baby X.”

That sort of tracks for the guy who also wrote “the most common case of a masculine sexual essence [is] a heterosexual man with a masculine sexual essence.”

I dunno, the second paragraph kind of seems to cover all of that?

I momentarily forgot about this guy’s background and thought that he was injured in Iraq or something. There really is no bottom to how crappy this dude is, huh.

Generally when an accuser has a history of lying and lying and lying about a wide variety of things when it suits her purposes, you can apply your logical abilities and decide if the general recommendation to believe women applies.

I think a huge part of this is our inability to deal properly with trauma and mental health issues. The past 18 months have been traumatizing to practically everybody. “Trauma” doesn’t have to mean a car crash. We, as a country, as a society, are totally incapable of dealing with major mental health issues - there are…

I often think this, when it comes to “sex symbols” or major lookers of previous eras. From today’s perspective, nobody looks good in certain hairstyles or clothing choices, but in 1971 (or whenever) it was all the rage, so....

I vividly remember eating snackwells as a kid, when I would visit the home of an aunt who always had them on hand. I wasn’t so into the brownies but I was obsessed with the little devils food cake cookies. I also distinctly remember that they were even better stale. I haven’t seen these ones anywhere for a long time…

It’s hard for me not to interpret this “we’ll give you a renovation show but then the real show is about your personal journey as the host of a renovation show” trend as just a successful network/franchise/concept crawling further and further up its own asshole.

To be fair, politico is pretty horrible. They produce good journalism now and then but their commentary is really bottom of the barrel and they compulsively put click-bait / us-vs-them / look-at-THIS-new-disaster headlines on practically every article. They are really, really not good at establishing context or…

I mean they have all been mega-hit songs and one of them holds a billboard record for the longest time at #1 so . . . people evidently do listen to and like his music!

Not saying two “wrongs” make a right, but Lady Gaga and Beyonce made a prison/sex video some years ago and I don’t really recall anybody caring much about that, because straight culture NEEDS lesbian prison sex.

It’s particularly frustrating to me to read stories like this where nobody names and shames the specific employees. Now this guy’s name is forever tied to this embarrassing incident, and the people who fucked the fuckery get to be anonymous and will likely not even lose their jobs.

I am really truly sorry to be “that guy” but he likely wouldn’t win anything in a lawsuit. He has no damages.

Quite honestly I find it illuminating when famous people discuss herpes, specifically. Because so many people have herpes, and yet it still has this bizarre stigma attached to it, and yet a lot of people still don’t fully “get” what it is or how it manifests.