"when one is a public figure one should expect that some people might not be pleased with the choices you make. And Richman can, of course, politely ignore and block dissenting views, but he chose to go another way. "

Or maybe labels just don't matter.

"It was literally an ad for rape."

And not every threat is literal, nor is every threat harmful.

"Why should intent matter? Your threats, whether you intend to carry them out or not, are harmful. Threatening to do something illegal, especially threatening harm to another, should be punishable."

I totally disagree. Most young people do not take it seriously, and older people are petrified by it and consider everything on it in a very literal sense.

Says the author, so it must be true.

So, basically, it is the fault of men that women drink more now than they used to? Am I reading this properly?

No, in America overweight or obese is normal. In a world where people are as active as they should be, where they eat what they should eat, this lady has a normal body.

Yeah, and they need to learn not to fight and murder other men too. That doesn't mean men shouldn't learn to defend themselves from other men.

"Bullshit. Nowhere I've ever worked is it standard policy to decline large tips,"

Tell that to Sacco and Vanzetti, you scumbag.

"All Italians may not get all the benefit of American whiteness, but they still get enough. "

Italian Americans are the one group in America that can be marginalized. They're fair game, apparently. Everyone else is off limits.

It's odd they picked Italian, though, because Italian people are CONSTANTLY reduced to stereotypes.

Italians are sterotyped, generalized, and mocked constantly but no one cares. It's a very odd dynamic, especially given that only a couple generations ago they were persecuted in the legal system and shunned from WASP society.

And she hasn't been part of the country's ruling elite for, like, 30 years.

I'm not a big fan of "HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT ME!" attitudes or attire, so I think this is all pretty ridiculous.

Insensitive towards the Taliban? Certainly a sympathetic group if there ever were one.

"As someone who once went on a brief but passionate Long Island Medium bender "