If you take it back to the Cukor movie, it’s the process of both lying to someone and convincing them that they’re mentally incompetent when they perceive the truth, conducted over a long period of time for the benefit of the liar.

Jon Hamm,

The Joe Schmo Show gave us Kristen Wiig (may not count since the “contestants” on that show weren’t really contestants).

I remember dying laughing at some of the bits on Joe Schmo. It was a great skewering of the ridiculous aspects of reality TV. I recall a bit in particular involving seeing whether they could get contestants to eat dog crap. However then it took a hard left turn on the final episode where the reality of what they’d…

Go back in time and find us some GJI articles that weren’t inconsequential bullshit. I dare you.

It’s over a year later, but you deserved more stars.

Pretty sure that cat is judging her. I know cats have resting judging-humans face, but this one seems pointed.

“We will be boycotting hate speech until it cleans up its act and starts being more responsible. profitable.”

Don’t forget to tip you waitresses.  The 10:00 show is different than the 8:00.

“Well, I could probably initial it.”

It feels like the problem (a problem, anyway) is that someone says “I’m going to categorize this range of time using term X” and then other people say “I’m going to assume that because this range is labeled ‘X’ everything in it is homogeneous.” And then people end up arguing over terminology.

Scholarly articles actually locked behind paywalls is becoming a rarity with the the proliferation of open access journals, sites like Arxiv, Researchgate, and Academia. It’s actually become unusual that I can’t find a .pdf of an article that I want these days.

I think you nailed it. I like to think of it this way: Imagine if, back when Wright started on this article, he had called Truitt instead of Pomata. Then the article comes out, and Pomata writes an angry letter detailing everything she thought was wrong. Then the A.V. Club writes a snarky article about how “Medieval…

Journalism isn’t always about quick turnaround; articles in the New Yorker, for example, are frequently researched and written over the course of weeks or months. It’s “news” that requires quick turnaround, but of course articles about things that have just happened, even those written by careful, seasoned pros, are…

Fleas and lice desert a body as it cools. Quite rapidly, too.

Starred for “abrogation.”

Because a paper can’t hire an expert on every single subject under the sun and many experts aren’t great at telling stories or putting things in layman’s terms. For that reason there’s a job, well used to be where you’d go talk to experts and report the factual findings. These people were trained to be as unbiased as…

Eileen

This isn’t a bad idea, but there are some logical concerns that I think you’ve overlooked.