She did date an NFL star. Redskins star linebacker LaVar Arrington, a top 5 pick in the NFL draft. I’d have invested in their kid’s future winnings.

To try to induce people to start using it, as a public policy decision. Ridership is in a long term significant decline.

You might mean 1.3 million rides. That is a very different meaning. Most people who take one ride are taking two. And many are taking more than two. It could easily be just a few hundred thousand people using public transportation.

My phone has my alarm clock. A standard alarm clock has lit numerals; my phone goes completely dark unless I use it. So I find my phone accomplishes my goal of a dark sleeping room better than an alarm clock, plus if somebody needs to reach me in an emergency, they can.

Let’s leave players’ sex lives private. We know them, and pay attention, because of their golf (or basketball, or tennis, or whatever). How about acting like grownups instead of gossipy high school girls?

Such a good point. I really don’t want to become a society so divided that I feel like I have to buy my headphones from the “liberal” aisle of the store, or only shop for groceries at the “conservative” grocer. And what if the manufacturer’s founder is a socialist, but the local distributor is a great, socially…

Just want to say, this piece is gold standard. This is what Gawker Media is capable of, when it turns loose the talented ones on staff. Thanks for this.

Um. You sure about this? The Marines are typically stuck with hand-me-downs from the Army. A shame, but there it is.

Typical. Rather than gracefully acknowledge it when I’ve answered your questions and the truth weakens your position, you mischaracterize and then recast the issue.

Does it matter?!

It’s weird. It’s the kind of thing that should be done extremely rarely. Guess what? Such things are done extremely rarely. Guess how often an attorney is so disruptive? Extremely rarely.

Okay:

Well, I am a lawyer, and it’s legit to ask, “What did she do? Did she deserve it?”

Are you sure about that? To my (hazy) knowledge, California Good Samaritan laws *protect* people who attempt to render aid; the laws do not *obligate* people to render aid.

Margaret Sanger needed a time out more.

Fair enough. I’m not saying he was a saint. Just saying he didn’t deserve how Stef treated him, and that Margaret Sanger was horrid from the start.

A shame. I was formerly a starred commenter on multiple Gawker Media sites. But the shift away from a diverse scope of coverage into one that focuses on the divisive aspects of any topic - where everything, even motorsports, must be covered from the lens of race, gender, privilege, etc. - has diminished the content…

Your reply is almost surreal.

Margaret Sanger’s entire comment to DCV was, and I quote:

I didn’t realize you’d expanded your trolling territory beyond Gawker. Stay away from io9, please.