My bets are on his getting caught. This wasn’t a “whoops, didn’t mean to!” situation. If he thought he’d regret his actions, he wouldn’t have done it in the first place because decent people don’t piss in mugs when there’s toilet access seconds away.

I saw that when I was a kid and it was more than 30 years ago—even thought Political Correctness wasn’t what it is now, I was mortified. I was too young to know that was Mickey Rooney, but I knew it was a parody of stereotypes. I didn’t know what “yellowface” was, but I turned to my Dad and said “That’s like…

That’s just confirming their own biases when they believe that J.K. Rowling must by default be male, otherwise it’s fraud. She didn’t assume a completely different identity, that *is* her name and she’s entitled to abbreviate to just her initials if that’s what she wants to do.

Thanks for this great piece, Jia. What a fascinating, frustrating, and complicated story, made much more interesting by Sherman Alexie’s generally sound commitment to tell-it-like-it-is racial politics. (He gave a talk at my college freshman year and called us all “privileged fucks,” which was (a) awesome and (b)…

I’m sure there will be glitches to work out ( which they even said themselves) but I doubt they would have set up a texting system without someone qualified to intercept and act upon those texts. At any rate, they’re actually trying to do something positive unlike the majority of bands or people in general. It’s easy…

Secret anti-burrito stance.

EGR, I am irate that you, Jezebel and Gawker Media have refused to cover the breaking story about the delicious chorizo burrito and coffee I am having while I delay working. An unconscionable editorial decision and obvious evidence of poor journalism skills. What is Jezebel hiding?!?

Yeah, this election has really been getting out of hand (HAHAHAHAHAH, because Canada :-) But the election poster defacement is the best.

THANK YOU.

Conservative campaign Sunday night said he “deeply regrets” his actions on the day

What I want to know is why it took Jezebel so long to respond to this?

Yeah, I mean. We do stuff like that all the time, but it’s based on our editorial judgment and not what ad sales decides is something we should appear to endorse.

The irony is that Jez might have just run the thing as a blog post, for free, if asked.

I identify as Christian, and it dismays me to no end how Christians seem to always feel that they’re under attack or being “discriminated against”. New flash: losing unearned privileges that you earned solely based upon your religious affiliation is not “discrimination” nor “persecution”. Not being able to use your…

Vomiting in disgust seems insufficient. I think I’ll shit blood in disgust.

I promise, sir, that if there really is a homosexual cabal that secretly runs the world and that cabal attempts to put your client and others of her beliefs in train cars and death camps, I will be your Oskar Schindler.

you don’t lose your constitutional liberties just because you are employed by the government

She is comparing herself this way not because she thinks her situation is as serious as that of a Jew in nazi Germany, but because she doesn't think Jews had it that bad in Nazi Germany. I've made a similar comment before, and I'm more convinced of it than ever.

Blissfully unaware her place in history will be similar to the anti miscegenation protestors from a few short decades ago. I wonder how it must feel lacking this much self awareness. It has to be nice. I'm willing to bet she rarely gets headaches.

“Call me if you wanna see the back of my car sometime.”