That would make a good subject for an Inventory: Artists who started buying into the character they were sending up when they first started. You could do another one about artists who later claimed they were being satirical or whatever in their earlier work.

Really love the illustration for this piece. It's like someone listened to all my poorly received criticisms of previous ones! Nick Wanserski's other recent ones have been good as well, and his color palette is a great fit for the site's design.

Actually, a lot of what makes Finland Finland was copied from other countries, and at that time Finland did not have anywhere near as much in common with those places with as it does now. After gaining independence there were even plans to bring in a monarch to rule the country because everyone else had their own king.

Goddamit I can't find the article that had looked at the influence of students' socioeconomic background in PISA scores, but regardless of that, is it not possible that there is more than more than one kind of educational system can produce good scores? I mean, I have very little faith in Finnish scores going anywhere…

Rape is not a capital crime, and even those who are convicted are expected to return to society. The "rapist in the bushes"-trope allows storytellers to avoid the issues it raises while still getting the drama from the crime itself, treating it with the severity of something people will be locked up for life for. Few…

I'd really like to see someone try to tackle this topic in a way that would explain the concept of Rape Culture from a different point of view. It would take a lot of thought to plan designs for ethical experiments in this area, or otherwise gather the necessary data, but I'd like to see a more quantitative approach…

This is more of a "Wow!" than a "D'oh!", but still: Killer Mike was Taqu'il on Frisky Dingo, wrote and performed "All That Jizz".

You're just saying that becausw they lumped "Manos" in with "Jerkin' My Gherkin" and "Sports Highlights": http://img3.wikia.nocookie….

One? Pfft, rookie.

Can you stop putting your dick in people's mailboxes?

People in general have always been like this. I won't tell you to get off Tumblr, but rather find people working for similar issues in a more hands-on, real world environment instead of critiquing pop culture on the internet (not that you and your friends aren't doing this, but so are others who aren't part of that…

As someone who isn't sure if I ever want to cohabitate with anyone again, I feel you.

I'm all that and a young white woman who sometimes conforms to conventional standards of attractiveness to boot, where the fuck is my movie?

We do know some things: "She was first married in 1984, when she was 18, and divorced a decade later, court records show. Five months after the marriage dissolved, she gave birth to twins by another man. In 1996, she married again, and her new husband adopted the twins. They divorced in 2006. The following year, she…

It really isn't be something that parents should be spending time on. Homework is not very useful, and just gives those whose parents have the most resources an advantage.

The great thing about people in the media who talk about how they never needed math is that they are quite a bit more likely to afford accountants and such to do stuff for them than the general public. And they're much less at risk of one miscalculation in their finances fucking up their life for years ahead. And they…

The script and acting on this show is such that Vicky doesn't really stand out as less human than anyone else. I watched a lot of this when we'd moved to the other side of the planet and had nothing to do, waiting for school to start in a gated compound. There's one episode where they mess with her programing or…

I'd love to see a spin-off of that with the genders swapped.

There's a bit more to it is you've seen some episodes of the show, which to me at least makes it in some way part of my pop-culture weekend

I didn't catch up on the rest of Mr. Robot as intended. But I did meet a hacker at an anarchist hang-out, and was drunk enough at that point that I forget to steer clear of nerd-bait topics. So despite having to tell him I needed to know a little more about someone before agreeing to be their girlfriend, I went back…