The "paste" (though other formats exist) can take a number of forms - the best one (sic) has to be a mixture of dirt and baboon urine. Vive la difference, eh? Lordy.

Um, seriously doubt that anyone has ever suggested that fast-twitch muscle fibre predominates among Kenyans (who excel internationally at longer distances, not sprints). Perhaps you're thinking of West Africa?

Might be worth noting that "dry sex" is awfully popular in that part of the world. Added size could well be a relative disadvantage in that context.

Multiple "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from the NAACP will do that to a man...

Thanks - I'm familiar w/the study (and w/some of the peer-reviewed literature). It's not clear to me why we'd restrict any IPV analysis to sex-related assaults (as you suddenly seek to do here) — especially when the Connecticut crime was a purely violent attack... and when your "male-privilege" analysis drew directly…

Haha. Her essay has the makings of a decent college-bar game: assemble one anecdote and four undergrad buzzwords into a gender-studies polemic... in under two minutes.

Quite true - but doesn't the criminality/sociology literature report even higher rates in lesbian relationships? If so, that suggests that "male fucking privilege" and "boys [being] fucking entitled to girls" may not be dominant factors in IPV, surely?

Asking Ailes to look at a tape of a local TV reporter is "wrong-footed"? How does that work?

Nifty .gif... but I'm confused: Is your position that producer head counts tell us something about green-light power? Sorkin's certainly not wrong that half the studios are headed by women... or that studio heads decide what films get made.

The study you cite doesn't entirely undercut Sorkin's point, alas. He's talking about studio green-lights — and if you look at any year's Top 250 films, you'll see the list includes tons of indie/non-commerical releases... stuff that grossed US$500K playing on a few dozen screens, tops.

... and yet oddly, paddles can improve both. Not sure quite what point you're attempting here, sorry.

Who's talking about shit boxes? Fact is, paddles expand the range of performance cars that can also work (or work better) as a daily driver... not just as a track or rally type diversion. That's a good thing, surely? The notion that someone might be mocked at a track for not having a stick (as you seemingly put…

Paddle shifts are so pervasive now that this rant seems kinda... quaint. Porsche doesn't even offer the 911 GT3 in stick now - it's PDK only right? And with Ferrari, their F1 drivers are hardly the only talent who switched to paddles and never looked back. Odd line in the sand you've drawn here.

Bingo. Just took a sec to see when female apprentices were accepted on Savile Row... looks like first woman to make head cutter was in 2009... or after 175 years of an all-male tailoring corps.

Simply one of the best comments of the year. Surgical stuff.

Well spotted, Tracie. You can just see the unchecked privilege rolling off him, can't ya?

Lindy presumably quit classics rather than risk calling herself a "classist" by mistake even once... Of such ideological purity are heroes made.

Yawn. Chippy AND dull. How like a Scouser to embody the stereotype even as s/he tries frantically to be recognized for... what was it again? Discerning theatrical judgement?

Aha - your background is absolute proof against undue class-related influence, eh? How nifty for you. We'll have to put an asterisk next to Chesterton's famous lines ("The English lower classes do not fear the upper classes... they simply and freely and unconditionally worship them.")

The commentariat's secret shame is that it swoons helplessly over Anglo privilege, particularly of the hereditary sort. Old Harrovians (Cumberbatch and Etonians are an especial weakness...