The vast majority of young people can consume media critically, but they aren’t the concern here. The concern is people who are actively suicidal already and easily seduced by the kind of romantic-suicide narratives and imagery that are rampant in the show. These kids aren’t able to make those kind of proper value…

Public schools can’t expel anyone based on fraternity membership (official or unofficial) because it would violate freedom of association laws.

In this case you’re looking at festival prices—$15 bucks for a well drink, overpriced bottle water, etc. Even if this thing had actually gone according to plan, the plan would’ve been to convince these kids to show up by charging “reasonable” prices for entry, but then gouging the hell out of them on everything once…

Survivor is a game show and, as such, is beholden to the rules instituted after the quiz show-rigging scandals that prohibited any sort of game-rigging on the part of producers or the network.

It does seem like people’s nostalgia for the original miniseries is probably a factor in their reactions here. Speaking as somebody who recently re-read the books, I was mildly surprised at a) how much of an obnoxious twit Anne can be in the early books and b) how clearly LM Montgomery was aware of it, haha. The…

Anne shouldn’t come across as natural, though. Her entire book one arc is that she’s constantly imagining herself as a dramatic heroine in a much grander story than anybody else around her is aware of. It’s possible that the actress is overacting, but, uh, Anne is an over-actor. Especially in book one.

It does, but it’s a separate process to eliminate it, and the Republicans—especially more moderate/independent-leaning ones like Collins and Murkowski—will be extremely unlikely to sign off on it, as the second the Dems are in power again it’ll be used against the Republicans. Especially with the way Trump’s approval…

Susan Collins might, though.

Note that a House rep proposed a Medicare for All bill back in January; it’s something that the Dems do pretty regularly but, because of their numbers, never gains any traction.

Yeah, one of the Gimlet Media podcasts (can’t remember if it was Startup or Reply All) did an episode about this company and talked to one or two of the women who worked there. They said that while the wages were low compared to what the same women would be paid in America, they were higher than anything else they…

Because Wisconsin is terrible at shooting free throws and they hoped they could psych the guy out.

Yeah, I get that, but it’s different from what I was saying. Psychologically speaking, having one person assigned to a task means it’s way more likely to get done than having multiple people assigned to do it. If one person is assigned to it, they know that no one else will do it, their absence will be noted…

They get introduced to the crowd every year. Cullinan even did a whole gag with Neil Patrick Harris the year he hosted. They’re not professional hosts, but they’re not shrinking violets or anything, either.

I think part of the problem is having two people with (apparently) no clear-cut instructions on who had primary responsibility to go on stage and fix it. You ask two people to do it, they’re both going to delay and hope the other one goes first. You either only put one person up there, or you clearly tell one of them…

The Dems had 60 hypothetical votes, but they only had 60 actual votes for a very short window of time due to a variety of factors (Ted Kennedy’s ill health and eventual death, Arlen Specter’s defection, Al Franken’s recount meaning he didn’t actually get to Washington until 8 months after he was elected, etc.).

Yeah, isn’t Heather Morris kind of a ringer here?

The DNC bylaws actually have very specific gender requirements for most posts that keep the gender breakdown pretty close to even. Ethnic diversity is also strongly encouraged in the bylaws.

USA Gymnastics as an org has made some strides to improve, but the problem is that their athletes are generally so young and under so much pressure at the time that they don’t come forward until they’re much older and their careers are over. This means that the abuse (whether it’s the sexual abuse scandal now or the…

“A list songwriters and producers are reluctant to give Kesha their songs because of her weight.”

Yeah, I don’t really expect any solutions coming out of Chaffetz. The Senate Republicans seem far more interested in investigating right now than the House.