It is clear that Vice President of marketing and communications Amy Smith is more than qualified for this position and deserves a raise. The shade was most glorious (emphasis mine)

I love how republicans tell the rest of us to grow up, but then they take time out of their super important jobs to weight in on a college election that doesn’t really matter.

Glad to see this generous and well argued post, Jinni.

I’ve made this argument on Jez to much (obvious) contention but really, I just don’t think comedy is for progressives. Modern progressives are too sensitive and go into viewing entertainment with a list of boxes to check for groups and subgroups and sub-subgroups that shouldn’t be “offended.”

Comedy is wrought from tension and subverted expectations. You can’t achieve that by simply saying things that people want to hear. His comments about Cosby show some genuine self-reflection and acknowledgement of how torn he is on seeing one of his heroes fall so far. Artists - comics especially - have no requirement…

How mature and brave of you. Does your arm get tired from patting yourself on the back for such heroism? I deplore the president but his saying “give him a chance” is not an admission of support. By no means deplorable enough to never listen to a historically great comic again.

I watched Spin last night, and Rich is leaving out a key part of the Cosby commentary - that being it was a callback to a joke done earlier in the show concerning a superhero who resorts to rape to maximize his “powers,” setting up a moral conundrum of “he rapes, but he saves lives.”

This wasn’t Andrew Dice Clay…

I don’t think Colin Firth has aged particularly well either

If you’re a Conservative woman you are not allowed to have your own thoughts and autonomy over your body. What she said should have been ok for them. She might as well have said “I personally wouldn’t have an abortion but that is supposed to be MY choice, not the government’s. It should be my call.” Yet they still…

She stepped out of a line and all her bros went, “I don’t know her.”

That and they’re claiming their sentences are unfair based on those that made deals. Except that’s the entire incentive in making a deal - you get a lighter sentence and the state doesn’t have to spend time and money trying you.

six years on one count of violating Georgia’s street gang act

“I would never ...” = “I didn’t realize there would be consequences for my actions.” Which is why we are seeing an uptick in racist and anti-Semitic acts; people are getting the message that they can get away with it.

I mean, who does not enjoy a monthly case of UTI and septic shock?

Jared Kushner looks like the perfect, caring fiancé in a L&O SVU episode who is later revealed to have been kidnapping all those brunettes and dressing them up in his late mother’s clothes.

I am black. I have been to Medford (Ashland is really the college town but Medford is seedier and right next door). Can confirm; if you don’t mind being objectified it’s like being a bear in a salmon run.

Person posting comments on a blog tells scientists doing groundbreaking work “Don’t you have better things to do” without sense of irony.

One thing autism has been scientifically linked to is old dude sperm, but men take a strange sort of pride in their lifelong ability to knock up a slut, so we don’t talk about it much.

Dudes who are not medical professionals tell everyone the dangers of medicine.

I think my fave part of Melissa’s Spicey skit was when she turned the press room into QVC for Ivanka’s crap.