Also, just for funzos: as you’re talking about journalists in the plural, “articles” should also be plural. If you use “article” in the singular there, you’re implying that all journalists write one article.

This would cut harder if you constructed a grammatically correct retort.

...What?

Helpfully, there are courses in j-school about this exact issue! It’s not enormously controversial, except in some areas, to expect facts as a part of reportage. 

At the moment, that tomorrow looks like this:

You know, Lucas, I’ve made fun of you, sometimes at great length, for bad prose style before, but I don’t have that to say in response to this.

That’s a good point. I don’t know because I don’t think there’s a particularly robust way of ranking various addictive elements (apart from the base chemical ones, so it’s pretty clear that meth is more addictive than caffeine, for example), though I would guess that the psychological elements of transgression…

This is an aside, but I was thinking about similar things because I just watched the most recent episode of Strange New Worlds, a show I actually generally enjoy as a long-term Trek fan, and found it to be—“a hot mess” would be generous.

Not to side with the right wing on—well, anything—but there is some fairly robust research underpinning the assertions that constant porn consumption is addictive (though “biologically” is a very weird choice of modifier there, as addiction of any kind seems to be a complex phenomenon resulting from biological and soci…

Interesting choice to relegate the mention of the writers’ strike to the fourth paragraph. Also: “If anyone could’ve shown up and stolen the entire show it was him.”

The tone in this article is super weird.

It boggles my fucking mind that people refer to someone who dates other fully adult human beings as a “cradle-robbing mess.” 

By the way, why on sweet Christ’s earth do people give “we,” used as a stand-in for “I,” a pass instead of calling it out as bad writing? It’s profoundly tone-deaf usage, even in the context of old-school film criticism. In, say, Ebert’s classic criticism (and literary criticism from the earlier half of the 20th…

HEY YOU KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE COOL AND WOULD STOP SHIT LIKE THIS? BANNING GUNS.

Just for fonzos (LOGIC EDITION):

I’m from New Mexico and I very clearly remember the hantavirus scare when I was in, like, second grade?

Goddamn I love watching these billionaires shoot themselves in the feet while, I’m just guessing, applying nerd sunscreen on their mega yachts.

By the way, a couple of migrant ships capsized in the last week, killing many hundreds of children.

Okay. I mean, I wouldn’t want underwater death for anyone and it’s a literal nightmare. But.

By the way, just for funzos, given this “groomer” shit: one of the book series that is still a favorite, collectively known as Alice in Wonderland, was written by someone who was very definitely a pedophile. (Also, if you ever wanna read some stomach-churning shit, The Annotated Alice performs backflips to excuse…