The "lame fucking analogy" is not Ari's — it's Rumsfeld's single most well-known line from his tenure as SecDef. Your evident unawareness of this basic fact is kinda priceless... especially in light of all the rabid screeching that accompanied it.

Thanks - a more thoughtful reply than my comment (or the article itself) probably deserved. Fwiw, my general take is that our social capital (for want of a better catch-all term) is a mixture of many factors, including looks, intelligence, wisdom, humor, likability, work ethic, social networks... and of course,…

"Blockhead"? You working through a stack of "Peanuts" books in your spare time? Half-point for reaching back to the McCarthy era for a (historically relevant) attempted insult.

You rather miss the point. The notion that some types of denial are potential evidence of deep-seated crimes of belief should offend any liberal-minded modern person. (It's precisely the line of attack that gave us the Inquisition, McCarthyism, and witch trials.) Your formulation, which assumes guilt in both cases,…

If you can't see that the rule "If you're accused of x, your denial is meaningless" has some chilling implications, you're either quite simple... or historically innocent. Or both.

Eye of newt, comrade.

Replace "racist" with "Communist" or "heretic" or "witch" and see how well your rule works.

Well, if "basically everyone" means 10-20% of respondents polled, sure. It's not hard to make a compelling case for a name change without invoking phantom support, surely?

Looks come in a distribution, just like intelligence (and many other attributes). Ugly exists, just like stupid does.

It is indeed mundane. That said, replacing the strenuously ideological ("When you buy me dinner, you oppress my newly won sense of economic freedom and reference oppressive structures of courtship") w/the common-sensical counts as progress in my book...

A more cynical interpretation would be "unexceptional people concocting types of privilege in order to virtuously (and visibly!) renounce them,"

Well shoot... let's get that boy a sign saying, "Whenever I affirm your choices via a handwritten sign, there's no implicit gender bias involved." Better?

Hmmm... because the oppression angle creates a potential asymmetry? Because frolicking in crashing waves of post-colonial guilt is like spring break for a certain type of earnest undergrad?

GSD geeks and other arch design nerds used to favor "Corbu"... but I'm hopeful that has receded into permanent oblivion? (If not, Kanye can probably teach Kim to manage "Corbu" just by a simple mnemonic, like "it rhymes with Corfu, baby").

Thanks. Just skimmed it... and fell over laughing halfway through — at the idea that Liz Taylor has always been seen as "a paragon of grace, elegance and womanhood."

"An image of Kris Jenner quite possibly inspired by Goya..." Callie, you goddess.

I would give much to hear a recording of Kanye saying, "...Corbusier and Jeanneret and Parriand..."

I believe the preferred interpretation would be that the Native American gentleman snapped under the combined weight of historical oppression and lack of access to social-services. (Though he could well be "in a bar" for reasons unrelated to any alcohol dependency, to be sure. Tricky ground.)

Ironically, farmers' markets aren't included as food sources in the standard "food desert" analysis — and neither are small grocers, specialist shops, bodegas, ethnic stores... and well, pretty much every other supplier you'd expect to see in lower-income areas.

Expected influx cancelled. Everyone opted to fall over laughing at the sight of social-justice warriors defending a guy w/a household net worth of $300 million+.