The instant you see someone try to use this as an indictment of all white people or all Christians or of white, Christian culture, then by all means, shift blame exactly like this.

FC2 had fun, tense combat, but that was where the fun began and ended for me.

He looks like Vincent D'onofrio's character from the original Men in Black. I would not be surprised if, in the course of the movie, Kirk explains how obtaining The Galaxy has its roots in ancient Christian history. Then maybe he kills an Arquillian Prince as an allegory for battling atheists.

Population statistics rebut claims about a population. I.e., if someone says, "she's probably lying. Everyone knows the majority of rape claims are false." Then you can answer, "actually only 2-8% are false, generally no more than for other classes of crime." That's a good use of population statistics.

If feminists are truly interested in achieving an equal, healthy society, they must endeavor to chip away at the "universal" (read: masculine) definition of success and undermine the invisible ropes of socialization that bind men and women separate but equally.

Funny you pick those numbers.

As a practical matter, and other reasons not including the fact that I'm a guy, I've never been a proponent of the ball-kick.

For what it's worth, Julianne Moore was an amazing Sarah Palin, and their politics don't align at all. Not to say Game Change was a flattering view of Palin, but I think Moore did her due diligence to get inside the character and create as sympathetic a representation of Palin as reality would probably allow. Angie…

Here's the thing though, you don't need GamerGate to be upset with corruption in gaming journalism. You never did. If you really cared about that sort of thing, you'd run screaming from the movement because it's become a dog whistle for really, really nasty things directed towards women. At least then, you'd be…

Correction, the expert is Stolinsky, not Vandenberg. My mistake.

You know, I tend not to blame the attorneys in cases like this. Moral equivalence is kind of their stock and trade, and, as has been said, they have an obligation to give their client the best defense they can. I also realize that, while it doesn't always make for the best optics, sometimes there's a pretty wide…

Did you ever wonder why the classic Nigerian Prince scam never really evolved, or why those scam emails invariably have awful grammar? It's intentional. Their con requires a mark that will overlook obvious red flags in favor of an easy buck. A god awful email is a high-efficiency way of choosing only the ripest…

"Fact-Checking" the "Fact Check":

Venice alone is probably kind of a drag. It's best as a romantic destination unless you're super into renaissance art or Venetian history. There's not much of a tourist singles scene that I could recall, so you could probably write off a vacation fling unless you're super suave and speak fluent Italian.

I'm getting your sarcasm, but I don't think you're getting the point. Cosplay can be about sex or not. It can be models hired by a developer or a talent agency, or it could be a college kid working long hours on a passion project which may or may not have a sexual component for them. It shouldn't change anybody's…

Cosplay could be about the sex. Why not? What are we, the morality police? If dressing up like Lara Croft and walking around a convention center filled with 10,000 people gets a girl (or a dude) off, more power to 'em.

England came up with many of these scams. The Nigerian 419 use to be widely known as the Irish Lottery scam. The Nigerian scam itself probably has a closer connection to the UK than to the U.S. because of Nigeria's status as a former British colony. Even a casual Googling related to "pensioner" and "scam" will show…

After reading more about this, I don't think this woman was a troll, at least how we would understand that term. She wasn't just Tweeting hate and abuse towards this couple, she also Tweeted the media and the police to demand they do more to investigate. She was an obsessed extremist, but not a troll. Abortion…

Seriously. I mean, I'm not even sure how much money it would take to threat someone, much less my son. It'd have to be a lot. Like a thousand pounds worth, at least, and on a really high shelf. That would be pretty threatening.

I think the disclaimer makes it worse. It's evidence of their true intent, and of their subjective belief in the accuracy of their claims. A lawyer could throw that up in court and excitedly declare, "So you KNEW that people could have interpreted this as list of accusations of sexual assault, AND that those…