Meanwhile, noted rapist Ben Roethlisberger is the hero of every meatheaded cracker Steelers fan. No one ever called him a "thug," even though what he did is much more like the dictionary definition of "thuggish" than talking smack after a football game is.

The portion of this article after the second block quote was particularly good. And, despite the headline's assertion, there's no way your average Whole Foods shopper sets foot in Wal-Mart, either out of snobbery or conscience.

Exactly. Start simply, and if the kids are curious, they'll ask questions and you can respond accordingly. It's not hard.

Because there's a long history of a black upper caste mocking the downtrodden white man with exaggerated white face, right?

No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that the gulf between FGM and circumcision is so wide as to make the comparison facially ludicrous. If circumcision is like losing a fight in the schoolyard, FGM is like getting tortured in a Vietcong tiger cage. "Of course it's worse for the girls" does not begin…

Well, then wave your magic wand and get prostitution legalized and remove the social stigma from needle exchanges. While you're at it, get people to actually use condoms, which are available everywhere. No one's ever tried to do any of those things before, so the problems should be solved in short order, right?

Higher rates of safe sex; better-regulated prostitution; lower incidence of needle sharing.

It's certainly not empirically equivalent, if you're thinking about the total effect of vaccination in terms of contribution to herd immunity and suppression of dangerous diseases.

And in the universe of those practicing unsafe sex - which is a pretty big universe - those who are uncircumsised are more likely to pass on STIs. Your point does not affect mine.

You're more likely to pass on HIV and HPV, among other STIs, if you're uncircumsised.

And atomic bombs and firecrackers both explode, but it doesn't mean they're in the same ballpark, or even play the same sport.

Can't tell if you've got a really dry sense of humor or if you're fucking stupid.

You're an idiot.

A white player who grew up poor and black? There is no such thing as a "similarly situated" white player, because there isn't a white person in this country who knows what it's like to grow up poor and black.

Sherman DID, however, reference a white player who actually did something himself: Riley Cooper. Cooper gets…

I've never understood what the purpose of destroying WTC 7 would have been: destroying evidence? There are much easier, quieter ways to destroy evidence than leveling an entire fucking skyscraper.

I think the "teaching your 7-year-old daughter that pushing a woman is acceptable behavior" part can be tied for the worst part.

Exactly. She's been "Aunt Robin" the whole show.

Some dads, like some moms, like some people, are bad parents. The problem is that we don't usually hear stories about moms and dads who didn't act badly, because those stories are boring.

I found out when I was older that my grandmother was a fat-shamer, but my mother and father wouldn't allow that shit in their…

"are you ready to turn your back on ol' Bourbon"

Of course words change. The figurative use of literally - by the way, does anyone really think that people are confused about the word's core meaning? - is fine by me, for example, because it's used to give emphasis and a sense of absurdity to a comment; that is to say, the contrast between its literal meaning and…