Is it shaming? Or is it just making fun of?

I already knew (as do most moderately-educated people) that terrorism comes in different forms. I didn't need this cover to teach me that. Yet I still find it distasteful.

But if you can't see what BZuckercorn and what other rational people (not just kneejerk reactors) are saying about glamorizing his terrorism, thennnn... I don't know, I think there has to be serious cognitive dissonance or willful misunderstanding there.

Capitalism.

I actually disagree, in that, honestly, I can't know that there isn't a deity. I can theorise that there is no 'god' on the basis that there have never been any demonstrable proof that there is and the idea of such a being runs counter to what we know of basic physics, biology, etc. But science doesn't "prove"…

You also can't demonstrate the existence of God. Both atheism and theism require belief, or dare I say, faith. Whether one's faith is based on a complete dearth of objective evidence, or on "evidence" in the form of stories passed on from generation to generation is another thing entirely.

Lena Headey would have been my nomination. Dany is such a strong character in the book, but the TV characterisation reduces her to boobs and dragons, and Clarke's portrayal seems listless and uncertain. Lena, on the other hand, just KILLS it, and her descent from assured and powerful to slightly mad and increasingly…

You are a wonderful man and have raised an equally wonderful and intelligent daughter, who clearly chooses her friends well. Don't ever stop standing up to the bullies. Those with the most radical opinions always scream the loudest and resort to the worst tactics, and in the long-run they usually end up losing. You…

And they say in this economy young folks are struggling to find work.

Next to "Robin Thicke: Pretty Fly for a White Guy", on the cover of a music and pop culture magazine that almost exclusively devotes its cover to people like Justin Beiber and sells its covers online as posters to be hung on your wall.

I haven't seen it on Esquire's cover, but I'm not a subscriber. The problem is not with the photo, but with the context.

Zing!

22 words have never made less sense to me.

That's your opinion and you are entitled to it. But some people, like myself, find it in poor taste, and the thing about culture is that it is the net result of individual opinions.

Well said. The Time/Newsweek comparison is a very strong illustration of the difference little editorial touches can make. The comparison to Manson that some commenters have put forth is somewhat valid, but again the devil is in the details, in that the Manson cover is dedicated solely to him in acknowledgement of…

I don't understand the derision for people who think the cover is inappropriate. I think if they ran a cover with a similar photo of George Zimmerman people would lose their shit. I don't see why it's so wrong for people to consider this in poor taste.

I mean...I'll admit it, when I was a teenage boy I watched a lot of porn. About as much as any other teenage boy, and a decent variety as one might expect. I grew up in a sheltered, very conservative household and I never had "the talk" with my parents, and even now I don't discuss sexual subjects with them. I'd…

Agreed. I aspire to this level of funny.

Despite my stellar resume, volunteer experience as an unpaid teaching moments aid to my white classmates and my law abiding lifestyle, I’ve been a victim of “mistaken identity" by a local business falsely claiming that I robbed them. Police picked me up while I was on a neighborhood walk, stopped and frisked me. I was…