Here is what confuses me. If I’m sixteen years old and I have an iPhone, I can take pictures at will. If I take a picture of myself naked, it’s all good. If I send that picture to someone else who is sixteen years old, I’ve become a felon. And presumably, the person who receives that picture is also potentially a…

Not that this makes up for the abuse, but I’m willing to bet that Nicole Hardy is a very rich woman who will lack for nothing going forward. It’s not okay. Hardy facing a penalty would be better. But if I had to guess, I’d guess they cut her such an extremely large check.

I worked on the Daily Californian in college. And every season, it seemed, there would be another football player caught up in an incident involving violence against women of some form or another. It became so common that there was, for a while, a class that athletes had to take to help prevent this sort of thing.…

It is as if shaving one’s hair is extremely painful. I’m a dude, I shave all around with the electric. That’s all I would ask of anyone. It doesn’t have to be surgically smooth. But it shouldn’t be ten o’clock shadow. So I guess my dealbreaker would be, shaving body hair is not a big deal for the prospective partner.…

“By not sucking dick, Stevenson has prevented no man from still getting off via sex. By not going down on women, Lloyd has effectively refused to give women orgasms from sex, while ostensibly continuing to get them for himself. This is why Alison Stevenson is a hero, and William Lloyd is the exact opposite. Here is a…

Basically, her gender makes her impervious to every single other thing. Sanders could cure cancer and Warren could discover a cheap source of fusion power and everybody would still say that HRC was the right choice because ovaries and she’s likeliest to win. Except that I voted for Obama, in part, because of history,…

I worked at Aol in the aughts. They completely cooperated with the government and there was a room off the main entrance at the campus in North Virginia which was where that business took place. There was a former Agency employee, who in a contrast with other executives there, was extremely attractive and thus,…

The built-in narcissism of the Internet (including this comment, alas), is in play here. The idea that global problems can be affected by you, or me, alone in our apartments or sneaking a break in between tasks at our standing desk - is usually balderdash. Actually, it’s also by doing real things in the real world,…

if you choose to disobey the law, you face the consequences. This seems simple, on the face of things. Sure, personally speaking, Davis is a moron at best, a hateful so and so at worst. But laws have penalties so that people who break or ignore them know the consequences. When people break the law to protest court…

Thank you for this. I am going to go outside and talk to actual people. You, all of you, have done me a mitzvah.

One big difference is that Gerry Adams friends shot people and planted bombs. Tyler’s friends shoot lyrics and plant bomb beats. (Or some other cool puns around bombs and bombs - you see what I’m trying to do there). Or, one is the civilized front of a real, live guerrilla war. The other guy is a poet. See the…

I agree with you about the polarization of beliefs. What I find interesting is that, on both sides, when the rule in question is broken, the same “remedies” are taken. Personal invective, stifling the voice, legal attacks (in this case) and so on. The idea that people get to say things we might disagree with, (like I…

There are new rules. Artists, writers, people - all have a specific set of instructions they must follow. These rules govern language, beliefs and choices. If you break the rules, the penalty can be swift - as it was with Tyler. Or it can be more longterm and social media driven, that all depends on factors such as…

This matters almost as much as Obama’s so-called lack of citizenship. Which is to say - not much. It’s being blown up as a counter to the Hillary is inevitable wave. But the reason it’s gaining traction is that almost nobody is enthusiastic for Hillary the person. They want Hillary the woman, or Hillary the…

I know. It is anti-intuitive. But agriculture is 80% of water use in California. You and I with our lawns make up the rest. It’s tempting to think that whether you shower for five minutes or one minute will have a global effect. It’s actually true that if you, along with everyone else in the state, ended lawns and…

This is Bernard Williams and John Nagel would call bad moral luck. These douchebags get to be judged as bad actors even though there are factors of their situation that were beyond their control - ie their lack of awareness that they had not disconnected the call. Had he hung up properly, there would be no issue since…

The Outrage Industrial Complex.

Michael Jordan is just an awful person. I get that he was not born rich - but in a world where most super rich people at least pretend to care about the poors, this dude has not even once done a thing for anyone but himself. Yikes.

I am a black person. I am American but I grew up in the Caribbean. I don’t understand the American South, why a black person would want to attend the University of Alabama - and I certainly do not grok why a black woman would want to pledge this sorority. I guess I don’t think they should have to “integrate.” I think…

This was good work. I see you.