Journalism is publishing something somebody doesn't want to be published; all else is public relations.

1. It would certainly be a good idea for unions to bargain for this sort of thing, but that doesn’t mean they have actually done so in the past. Is there any actual evidence they have tried for this and been turned down? My guess is this is an innovation that has genuinely never occurred to people.

Does the word "visible" have a different meaning on your planet? Here on this planet, credentials you can see in someone's hand are considered "visible" in this and every other event.

I knew this was all your fault.

Burneko doesn’t write satire, he writes post irony. Like schrodinger's cat, post irony is simultaneously two things at once - ironic and non-ironic readings are both simultaneously present in the text, neither more legitimate than the other. In a postironic world satire is dead because opponents of a satiric message…

“If he plays like crap and they lose, everybody can brush it off by saying he was rusty/still injured.”

That attitude is exactly why the internet is as bad as it is. We should treat online malfeasance as seriously as in “real life”, and punish any vermin we can get our hands on. Tossing even just a few thousand 4chan trolls in prison would do wonders towards cleaning up society, and the costs would be trivial. We’ve…

Here's a thought, don't publish a question and response unless you can answer it accurately. Crazy talk, I know.

“Somehow if the editors at lifehacker forgot to go a couple days without such helpful articles there are no shortage of places to find this kind of stuff.”

Oddly enough, I was going to say the same thing about you. A JD from “The U” is the equivalent of toilet paper. Too bad you couldn’t get into a real school, dude. Also, when have you contributed anything of value to this site, ever? You shouldn’t dish out advice you don’t follow yourself.

Whether intended this way or not, it works as a clever dog whistle - trump gets to use the media to accuse trans people of being drug addicts (via the use of the word "drugs" in the headlines), and the only pushback he gets is from people dinging him for not knowing the details of military policy.

The red state/blue state divide is complete fiction. Rural californians and pennsylvanians are just as evil as rural alabamans. The divide is urban/rural, not red state/blue state. And you are awfully flippant about abandoning all the non-deplorables in red states who cannot leave.

“Just a guy who has a problem with income inequality and unacknowledged privilege, but who has also grown tired of the stereotyping of anybody who is financially successful.”

Trust you? You have literally zero credibility. 

Don’t kid yourself, everybody in the 99% would swap places with the 1% if they could, and having done so would take on the class interests of their new status. And of the handful who wouldn’t, pretty much all would refrain because they are already privileged enough to be able to put social capital, in this case the…

That’s an interesting idea, but turning the entire supreme court over every 18 years is far too fast. It means a single president who gets re-elected (and most presidents are re-elected nowadays) gets at least four court seats (maybe more if someone dies or retires early) or just one vote shy of an absolute majority…

The real problem is not that we are conflating madness and evil, but that we are conflating madness and stupidity. Dany’s strategy here is moronic. She could have accomplished/did accomplish all the intimidation factor she could have benefited from just by winning the battle with the dragons, without the aftermath…

The dubs “tanked” in 2012 by trading monta ellis and making some subsidiary trades in mid-march because they didn’t want to pay him and wanted to move on to steph as their franchise cornerstone, and as a result drafted harrison barnes as the 7 pick (and draymond in the second round, but the fact he slid that far…

No, contrary to whining from certain quarters the dubs’ dominance has improved nba ratings. NBA fans like superteams, always have, always will. The league is better when elite players are in position to be spotlighted in the postseason rather than having big chunks of their careers wasted on dead-end teams. What they…

It doesn't matter whether it's true or not, only whether it's plausible, and whether people will want to believe it.