This essay felt all too familiar. I remember leaving a job at a nationally known and respected newspaper after a year. I remember thinking, when I was told I needed to improve the reporting a lot more, “These are the staffers you gave me. They were a problem for years but now it’s MY fault they can’t do better?”

I thought her answer was refreshingly honest. That’s not rude, although I’m sure her questioners were taken aback. I’m glad they were - maybe they’ll think harder next time before they ask an athlete an inane question just because she’s a woman and we’re expected to smile even when we don’t fucking feel like it.

Louis CK jokes about how only white people love the idea of time travel. Black people wouldn’t want to travel to the past - there’s nothing there for them!

Is it really a controversy if it’s one ignorant dumbass who’s stirring a pot no one else is eating from?

Oh my god, this is delicious. Slap fight!

I personally don’t agree with the law against assault, so I am going to go punch Mike Huckabee in the nose. Freedom!

This is her fourth husband, right? FOUR. As in, she divorced three others before she married Husband No. 4.

That’s actually pretty scary to think that guy is 1. still out there, and 2. has the mindset that whatever’s wrong is always someone else’s fault. You dodged a bullet.

Yeah, but see, she’s married ADAM four times. She didn’t marry EVE. Totally a difference that makes sense in the 21st century.

“But every time they’re photographed with him, a story gets made out of it that rehashes the whole mess, and it’s painful for everyone.”

“The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a “decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n’-Low and one NutraSweet,” ooh, you’re a huge asshole.” —Bill Maher.

Were they standing at their front door in lingerie?!?

She does not get nearly enough credit for doing a job that would make me want to punch people in the nose every single day.

Whatever you think of Woody Allen, he still wrote the single best line about evangelicals I’ve heard: “If Jesus Christ came back today and saw what was going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”

Thank you for this. I’ve been working in news media for 20+ years and some nights, when I was frustrated, angry and ready to start looking for a job outside news, The Daily Show could almost always calm me down, make me laugh and give me a new perspective on what I do. Just the fact that someone smart cared enough…

Thanks! I can’t take credit for the boil description, though. I think it’s actually from “Steel Magnolias.”

It is very depressing to me that people support a boil on the butt of humanity merely because they know he’s rich and has verbal diarrhea, which they mistake for a type of honesty.

The comments on the Washington Post’s story about the NYMag story will make you lose your faith in humanity. I swear, some people won’t believe it’s rape unless it involves a woman who was dragged into the bushes at knifepoint by a stranger while she’s walking home from Bible study wearing a floor-length skirt.

Thank you. It makes me crazy when people look down on adults who read YA and make a judgment about their intelligence, as though such people never read anything else. Well written YA books are not simplistic or uncomplicated. Anyone who’s read, say, the Wrinkle in Time series could attest to that.

Are you a pediatrician? Do you have a medical degree? Do you understand the concept of herd immunity? Or did your much vaunted expertise in vaccinations come from the Google School of Public Medicine?