Malcom got sucked into MacDonald’s world, which led her to condemn McGinniss and his book in her column (not a book - she never wrote one about MacDonald, and she has a much longer history with him that is not disclosed in this particular post). Her basic column premise was that McGinniss led him on as a friend and…

I think it is important to note that Malcom fell into the exact same trap with MacDonald. She wrote her piece after getting conned by him to defend the “unfairness” of it all (sound familiar?).

It’s obviously fiction. I mean, who would think that in the modern era a major first world country would still have hereditary monarchs as official heads of state? That’s straight-up Middle-Earth style fantasy.

Yes, there needs to be a distinction between “deadnaming” and merely providing relevant information in the clearest possible way. We should of course respect Elliot’s wishes and use the name and pronouns he prefers (as with any trans person), but it’s unreasonable to consider as offensive any relevant reference to the…

Counter-counterpoint: The media’s responsibilities are to its readership, not the subjects of its reports. There has to be a way to inform without offending.

Well that’s just not fair. Melania has a full-time job too. There’s like a contract and shit.

Dear Kotaku, why is this random article from 2008 on my kotaku homepage.

But because this is 2020, there are already conspiracy theories floating around

Holding your breath for that long is ludicrously dangerous and there’s no way the on set safety staff or insurance people would actually allow that.

It’s not quite the right analogy though because Cohen is Jewish. I’m not saying that Jewish people can’t perpetuate anti-semitism, just that this isn’t like blackface. (I defend the guy, but I really hate Borat.) Where the problem comes in for me is that Cohen’s audience isn’t always on board with his “exposing…

There’s got to be a more tasteful way for Woody Allen to get money from Amazon than posing as a Holocaust survivor.

 One woman’s home was foreclosed on nine years after her makeover when the mortgage ballooned from $30,000 to $113,000.

“I have trouble believing Grassley or Murkowski really meant it. They thought this would never come up and they could score free reasonableness points.”

45 days, huh?

And these static ideas of what a “proper” victim should act like are actually genuinely damaging. I can’t remember the name, but I’m pretty sure someone just made a film or show about a true story I heard from years ago where police and even the victim’s family members did not believe she had been raped because she “di…

“Well it’s not what any of my other rape victims did.”

So an interesting thing about my comment, which I’m not entirely sure actually read, is I never used the words “low-income housing.” I also never said that the market should be left to itself. What I did point out was that in a lot of places, zoning policies restricting the type of housing that can be built (not…

Fauci is not a hero who will age well. His record during the pandemic is problematic at best. Has he acquitted himself better than Trump? Yes. But that’s a very low bar to clear. Fauci is emblematic of the current Democratic mania for lionizing anyone who picks a fight with Donald Trump. After Trump is gone, all these…

“What is this cancelled shit? I would never have been an asshole if I had understood that there were actual consequences to being an asshole! I would have just used the same euphemisms we always use to talk about blacks and poors! Why didn’t someone warn me? Tina! Tina! Get in here! Oh for fuck’s sake, Tina probably…

Saw it described as the Happiest Plague on Earth.