Everyone forgets (or doesn’t know) that the Temperance movment had as much to do with women not wanting the men in their lives to get drunk and beat them all the time.

Well I for one think the Blue Lagoon children really grew up nicely.

What is most stunning about this story is the realization that not only were these abuse allegations widely known among the journalists and members of the political class of the day, they were brushed off and deemed unimportant, irrelevant to what were considered more pressing political matters.

I can wholeheartedly say that I have never liked Nicki. She always seemed disingenuous. And her music was always lacking. I grew up with strong female rappers - there weren’t a lot, but the ones that were there were some BAD bitches. And I mean that in the most positive way. Lil Kim, Foxy, Remy, Trina. (I was a kid of…

The number one responsibility of a father is to embarrass their child as much as possible. Carry on, Alec.

You know what’s incredible?

Let’s not get started with how this could begin a chain reaction with other fields after the East and West started a recruiting competition to get the Nazi’s experts to join them if a philosopher is bad.

Yeah, I don’t agree with the author’s assumption that studying Heidegger a Nazi makes — it’s the other stuff this jackass has published that confirms his white supremacist leanings. We all studied Heidegger in college, didn’t we?

I’m kind of amazed he was fired to be honest.

So true. This brings to mind of how Americans talk about the atomic bombing in right/wrong absolute terms. But East and SE Asia suffered greatly under imperial Japan and we remember it in our bones, so while the wisdom of bombing civillian cities is up for debate, the painting of the Japanese as some poor pitiable…

been with the same guy for 10 years (married for 5), I’m pretty sure if I had to date again, I wouldn’t be able to. I forgot how to flirt with someone other than my husband. and thats a very particular honed in 10 year old flirting technique that is surrounded in BBQ jokes. 

I think a lot of people here are misunderstanding these numbers. It isn’t saying that 50 year old men are fucking 18 year olds. It is simply saying that 18 year old women have the most hits. And independent of that 50 year old men have the most hits. In other words, it is easiest to find a willing partner for those…

She sounds like every single other indie white girl out there. Like she’s got marbles in her mouth. It is not cute.

She is a pop star, though, so this is probably going to be a musical.

The Disney version most definitely took...many liberties with the Mulan story (the Huns, the group that invaded Western Europe in the 5th century, never invaded China, though there is considerable debate if their ancestors were barbarian tribes that engaged in multiple conflicts with past Chinese dynasties during the…

Mmm, I’d be hesitant in making that comparison, it’s not like the Han Chinese aren’t a native people (even if there was longstanding conflict). I’d say a better comparison would be if the British incorporated the story of William Wallace where he’s having tea with the Queen.

Yep! This was fun to write.

I have this thing I do when I don’t want to see a mother breastfeeding. It’s called “looking somewhere else”. I hope it catches on!

Anyone else remember when pop stars sold music by making good records rather than soap operas and instagram feuds?

this must be sarcasm