While it's true that left and right facing swastikas are found in Hindu and Buddhist imagery, they are not found in Nazi imagery, so it's still wrong.

Even if it were spinning, that wouldn't affect the orientation of the swastika. It's still left-facing, which is wrong.

It's not even that she's using the swastika, it's that she's using the counter-clockwise swastika. Nazi swastikas are always clockwise (or "right facing"). Buddhist swastikas are usually counter-clockwise. So in addition to being "provocative", she just looks stupid.

Ugg, I could never marry myself. He never cleans around the house, he's totally oblivious, and he SNORES.

I imagine that they very much would want singles to stay in the hotel, so that recently divorced folk (or folks in the process) can catch rebounds and add to all the ZANY DRAMA!

The office is different. I could write a whole essay on it, but I'd say that while the office has "uncomfortable" as a scenario, it's usually mixed with things. It seems like when it's at its best, it's mostly "daily observational" humor mixed with jokes about the incompetence. We laugh because Michael Scott is so…

A lot of people are pointing out that "It's a joke!". I'm not sure I get the joke here. Like, he interviews people, and it's super-uncomfortable. Then, it's funny because... it's uncomfortable? And it's ok because the interviewees knew it was supposed to be uncomfortable? How is that supposed to be funny or…

How do you stimulate social behavior? I had a friend who had a kitten that was separated at a really really young age from its mother, and the cat grew to be an aggressive little jerk. It was postulated that he was so aggressive because he didn't have a mother cat to knock him in line as a kitten.

I'm sorry, perhaps I missed something, but where in the article or the quoted text does it say anything about the protesters shouting racial slurs?

Eh, it really depends on what you mean by cooking. Growing up in my family, a "home cooked meal" meant hamburger helper or chef boyardee. By the time my siblings and I were teenagers, we were kind of expected to cook the chef boyardee ourselves. So by that metric, I've been cooking since I was a kid. To me that…

I actually LOVE Pete. I find him so over the top that it's actually delightful watching how bitchy he is.

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As a guy, it can be kind of frustrating. Like, I really put an effort into filling out my profile. When I send a message, I try to be as fun, witty, and nice as I can. The trouble is, I feel like I only get a response to maybe one out of twenty messages I send. So it's easy to get disheartened, because after awhile,…

Um... YES. Especially among the gay community. I've often gone to some rather seedy chat rooms on certain places on the internet, and they've consistently been crawling with gay men with a "straight fetish" (they're into the fantasy of "gay conversion"), looking for cut or uncut.

While I'm no fan of Brownback or the terrible anti-abortion laws that have been going into place everywhere lately, I'm not sure why this should be condemned. Anyone who regularly reads Matt Yglesias will understand that usually these kinds of laws are designed to protect incumbent barbers rather than for public…

That would also be a factor, although over a large enough time span, everyone has ancestors in common. It's just that people like to go around saying "I'm a descent of Charlemagne!" instead of "I'm a descendant of Charlemagne's slave, Joey the dipshit!"

maaan, I just answered a post above this before I saw this post. Sorry!

Yea, but it's not necessary for one particular person to have had a lot of children for that to be the case. If Genghis' children fathered many children, it would have the same effect. When diffused over thousands of years, even normal family trees can trace descent like this.

You're reversing the roles. She's an unwilling participant, and will therefore not go down on the dude "smoothly."

Well that would seem dubious. While it's true that women are better recipients of aid in the third world, Steinem didn't say "If women were paid equally around the world", she limited her scope to "this country." I don't see how that would have an effect on the distribution of aid.