Anyone who has spent five minutes in a 12-step program knows you don't overcome addictions with willpower.

Wow. It's difficult to respond to such enlightenment with anything other than "Yes." The tone of her response created the space for the apology, but I have to give some credit to european_douchebag: not everyone would have responded with grace.

I experience it as a sharp pain in the right eye. I figured that's what everyone experienced, but this doesn't sound anything like that.

Sometimes they open their mouths that way when they see a bird, or when they are trying to get a scent. I think it's real.

Sounds fishy to me, too. Maybe they told the girls they were going to give BJs, but then, at the last minute, they didn't. Or maybe the hazing was to call a friend and say you were forced to give BJs.

So, basically, it's the sophistate's way of joining a gang.

You mean that photo isn't of Dan Savage?

It's true that places without chlorinated water—Haiti, for example—don't have so much obesity.

I'll troll both sides:

How is being given thousands of dollars worth of goods not "payment"? Certainly the IRS sees it as such.

Something tells me you're not going to like the "Precious" Pigs Feet Dipping Sticks.

I hope Limbaugh is capable of appreciating the irony that he catapulted into the public eye this highly capable, intelligent, articulate, interesting, caring, thoughtful, and wonderful young woman. If there's a silver lining, it's that we get to meet Sandra Fluke. I could easily see her as a White House Press…

Question: Does it show me anything that I can't find on YouTube or XTube—you know, like a story that engages me for more than three minutes?

Hypocrisy is part of the "logic" of the Ad Hominem Tu Quoque fallacy: "what a person says is inconsistent with her actions." Being a hypocrite doesn't make what you say untrue.

CCF provides an excellent example of the Ad Hominem Tu Quoque logical fallacy. Their message, essentially, is "Killing sheltered animals is inconsistent with the claim that animals are worthy of decent treatment, so animals are not worthy of decent treatment."

You forgot to reference the piece in Slate in which an Huan Hsu suggests the term "chink" never be used in any context.

If he'd watched Homeland, he'd know Federal agents are down for anything.

You can have the best of both worlds: a sleeve that you take the phone out of when you use it. I used Sena's for two less-glamorous phones: the original Motorola Droid and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

I had to check to make sure this wasn't a sponsored post for a horror movie about possession.

Doesn't this just make it more like Facebook? I guess that's not much of a defense.