There’s something interesting —and interesting, in a morbid way— about reading these statements. Because beyond the wretchedness of victim-blaming, notice how Holtzclaw can’t stick to a narrative about his own actions? He can’t seem to say something as simple as “I was on the other side of town,” or “I did a search,…

The thing is, it wasn’t a short con but a long one. Bill always kept his comedy clean, in that he didn’t curse, but we’re talking about a guy who everybody knew was spending time with Hugh Hefner in the 1960's and 70's. His books are littered with knowing winks-and-nods that boys will be boys and so on. The reason we…

Without seeing the full text of the deposition, I can’t entirely say anything about the tenor about the questioning.

All jokes aside, and at the risk of being “that guy”: it’s an inconvenience to have talkative assholes next to you, or people whipping out bright-ass phones, or whathaveyou. But I feel like I can grumble and deal with that.

The obvious winner is The Pirate Bay.

The thing is, though, while there’s this singular focus among cabbies that “black people don’t tip” (as a stereotype), Europeans never tip unless they’re prompted to because it’s not their culture (universal healthcare and living wages, ha!)

I dunno what the case was exactly but I’m pretty sure “Planet Rock” didn’t just sample “Trans Europe Express.” Bambatta interpolated the keyboard riff, there’s a slight change of tempo and an 808, plus there’s orchestra hits throughout.

Being from NYC: removing tips and harshly punishing declined pickups were ways of trying to remove the bias of individual drivers as demonstrated in the yellow street-hail cabs here.

Evernote started playing footsie with Microsoft, too (integration with Outlook). And Microsoft and Google buried the hatchet with each other over search. Tech is getting weird like that —less venture capital money makes for these kinds of marriages of convenience.

I’m saying this as one of those metal kids of the 90's who grew up with Ozzy from the No More Tears tour onward. I’m perhaps seeing things through that lens but... Sharon and Ozzy have a relationship that looked endearing on a reality show, but has all the hallmarks of codependency. Sharon was Ozzy’s manager before…

For me, when my mutually abusive parents divorced, it was a blessing. I finally had the ability to distance myself from them, after so many years of each of them finding a way to abuse me emotionally or through neglect. It happened when I was past 18, thankfully, so when the fighting for favor started I could just…

I think your point is valid, re: trying to see the wider cultural field out there.

It sounds like it’s a very conscious marketing decision (re: “den” v. “man cave”): in the wild, females bears and wolves dig a maternity den to keep cubs in. The word “den” has that 1950's sound to it, so it was very likely adopted to make it sound maternal —e.g., it’s where the woman of the house lets everyone eat…

FWIW, this kind of reversal in gendered product lines is not that out there. You remember the Marlboro Man, the Cowboy of Flavor Country, and the mascot that sold a generation of juvenile would-be tough guys on smoking?

IMHO, the affluent-people-beset-by-problems is a subgenre unto itself. Maybe a sub-subgenre of body horror in fact.

Somehow, Dolan found a way to make four different venues make Altamont look like Woodstock.

Once the opiates epidemic dies down —literally and figuratively— then the confouding effects of overlapping opiate and heroin addiction will sort themselves out. At which point, I’m pretty sure we’re going to see some hard data that demonstrates how subtly dangerous overprescription of benzos are —everything from…

I agree about 9/10 of the way with you. Kids are not equipped with a moral compass, parents can do some profound damage to people, different era, etc. All good points.

What you’re saying is true, but “drug overdose” (or drug-related death) does not equal illicit drug use or suicide or some sort of character flaw.

I think by the same token, though: there’s an understandable reason for ignorance. M.I.A. isn’t American by birth, citizenship or residence. She’s a Brit from the desi diaspora.