Remember that schadenfreude literally means “pity joy.” It’s taking joy at the suffering of your enemies.

Crisis PR time: Peyton has hired Ari Fleischer.

I’m watching the documentary. It’s clear that while Peyton gets the headlines, Sly’s biggest relationship by volume were a group of Green Bay Packers (where the players acted as referrer agents). But hey, they’re just good old fashioned blue collar boys in a franchise that’s owned by small town America. The…

I hate to point this out, but if you watch the damn documentary, the doctors in the U.S. and Canada are pushing the stuff the entire way. There’s definitely moments where they are clearly talking about setting up false pretenses for prescribing drugs (“infertility” “exhaustion” etc.), how to beat tests, etc. All quite…

There’s three factors here:

If it was a sectarian Christian acting against immigrants from the Middle East, it’s a real slap in the face of the rich symbolism of the Christmas story. Let’s recap this, shall we?

I know this is the prevailing sense of the year, and you can’t help but let the last part of it color your vision but... this was also the year we got legalized same-sex marriage nation wide, trans folks went from mascots to real people, one (!) black (!!) woman (!!!) climbed a flagpole and took on the whole…

Right, that much is pretty well documented.

Comic book Bane was given a fairly sympathetic back story (imprisoned as a child, etc.) where he was allowed to parallel Bruce Wayne, and then allowed to be at least anti-heroic in Secret Six.

It’s mostly done either (a) with contraband or (b) with non-contraband MacGyver’d into being tattoo equipment.

Yeah, the idea that Foxconn is somehow victimizing Apple is laughable. Apple are the ones who insist upon incredible profit margins; Foxconn are the people who guarantee a steady supply. Apple’s always charged a premium for commodity hardware. What changed from the early Jobs years to the era of it being the most…

What’s with the incomplete pattern here? Did he buy a sweater from the Defective Argyle Factory Outlet?

IIRC, the 1990’s Serpent Society was also a convenient way to try to tie Marvel’s contemporary Earth-616, its licensed Robert E. Howard sword-and-sorcery books (Kull/Conan/Red Sonja), all while tapping into the Cthulu mythos (where Marvel used Set instead of Cthulu).

Reason is a magazine that accepted funding from the tobacco industry to do hit pieces on consumer advocates. NYRB is, of course, a vanity press that will accept any article that a sufficiently obsessive-compulsive writer will submit. Neither of those are really worth mentioning in opposition to the original expose.

As PR for the company, maybe. As marketing of a luxury good, this is de rigueur. Luxury goods depend on snob appeal. You only get snob appeal by acting like a snob, e.g. implying that people who don’t buy $10 bars of chocolate somehow just don’t get it.

Is this the white people version of Bloods and Crips?

Jive turkey is actually available in 15 different varieties here in NY:

It must be said, too, that Sikhs can be very consciously anti-Muslim themselves.

What gets me: each of these incidents had to involve a couple of hours of this guy not reporting his location, not answering radio calls, etc. No one notices this stuff?

They threw a ton of charges at him. I doubt they are holding back against him.