Do they launch an inquest into whether that individual has ever done anything worthy of admiration before deciding if their ordeal is worthy of a compassionate response?

Since you’re trolling up and down this thread, hey TomatoFace.

That’s what as so frustrating about it. I think there absolutely was an opportunity for him to do well in the South. Then HRC won South Carolina and the entire Democratic base south of the Mason-Dixon all of a sudden became “low-information conservatives” who didn’t deserve Bernie Sanders’ time.

I’ll take “Irrelevant Numbers” for $100, Alex.

I’m old enough to remember being told that Sanders just isn’t electable.

The DNC torpedoed Sanders. There were a couple emails and news stories floating around about it a few months ago.

“ On your majesty’s secret service “ or nothing.

Try getting old. I am 58 and my new superpower is that I am invisible to men under 80 as well as to a surprising number of women.

I’ve heard a lot of people say that fat makes them invisible. I’ve never felt invisible, and I’ve always been fat. I just get hit on by a different batch of creeps. :/

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

This is like when you pay a homeless guy $5 to sweep your stoop even though it doesn’t need sweeping.

I am sorry, but you are wrong. I have solid evidence there is at least one alien among us:

The fanatical, obsessive Barb love was the most confusing thing about 2016 to me.

Yeah, the Martin film was essentially cut-ins, using original film footage. Superman Returns digitally manipulated the Brando footage, whereas Sky Captain actually did a digital recreation. It’s been coming by degrees, with things like head and partial body replacements, and stuff like Lucas digitally removing and…

There are definitely Brechtian themes at play.

You know....I don’t think I love this. Who is this aimed toward — teachers? Do we think teachers don’t try to intervene with troubled kids? Students? There were students interacting with this kid, and anyway, asking students to police the behavior of “creepy loner weirdos” is how you get bullying. (And I mean, say you…

It’s like every year they try to make it tackier than the year before.

FUCK HER AND TREVOR NOAH FOR ALLOWING HER ON THE SHOW.

Thank you for telling this story!

Claire debuted this essay at Tin House’s summer workshop in 2015 and I happened to be there. I think her essay is great, particularly in her acknowledgement of her own privilege. However, the discussion following her talk immediately shrunk to ‘How can we get more white women published?’, as opposed to ‘How can we get…