Anymore? This is the age cohort that Lord of the Flies was written about. Teenagers are not renowned for their empathy.

Agreed. It's hard to know how to process. On one hand, people who kill themselves are usually feeling uncontrollable depression. But their act of killing themselves often ruins the lives of the people they leave behind.

I realize you're being sarcastic, but your statement does have a point of truth. Most kids who kill themselves after being bullied show separate signs of depression or mental illness. Bullying alone, I think, will not drive a well-adjusted person to kill themselves.

Good point about being tribal, and the video evidence aspect. Maybe high schools and junior highs should be cellular-phone-free zones.

I'm not an expert on child sociology bu it seems like a fair amount of high school bullying is aimed at solidifying a particular group of peers and excluding others. This kind of sexually tinged bullying is common among boys (in my experience) and it's used to either haze, with the goal of weeding out the emotionally…

We don't. The DMCA exempts sites that host third-party content from (at least copyright) claims as long as they provide a way for rights holders to demand they be taken down. I'm not sure if that extends to other causes of action, but it would make sense if it did. A site like Jezebel, for example, could not afford to…

When you see him playing with himself in public (young boys get self-frisky) tell him to knock it off.

You can, actually. You can't imply endorsement, but this is art (mass produced art, of course) criticizing / mocking Noriega. The same way the Team America criticizes Kim Jong-Il, or the way Saturday Night Live mocks Obama and George W Bush (they don't have to pay them for that).

I think he would lose and Noriega will lose. Noriega's trying to say that he should get money because the game implied he endorsed it ("Buy COD, a favorite of dictators everywhere") but the game is just making fun of him, which I think is protected speech.

That's not true. You can't claim a person's endorsement without permission, but you can absolutely lampoon a foreign figure without permission (cf. Team America's Kim Jong-Il, or The Interview's Kim Jong-Un).

You're completely off. A person can use a US court to sue when the injury occurs in the US (or outside under some circumstances) and the law provides the court jurisdiction. Otherwise the millions of non-residents and greencard holders who live here would have no way to sue Americans. Not to mention that no foreign…

Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? Israel gets rocketed all the time and they have compulsory military service. It's nothing like the US experience of war.

It does not matter if a single dude likes Pam Oliver, but dudes watch football in much greater numbers than women.

I don't know about San Francisco in particular, but I understand that New York firefighting tends to more dangerous than in other cities because a) there is a range of building ages and consequently thoroughness of the contemporary fire code when a particular building was built, and b) parts of the city are very…

It's a dangerous job with specific strength requirements.

What you're referring to is called "left-wing nationalism" cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing…

"A woman who became famous for social media-ing the shit out of her vegan lifestyle has very publicly quit being a vegan, admitting that what began as something joyless and disordered had become even more joyless and disordered." FTFY

"A woman who became famous for social media-ing the shit out of her vegan lifestyle has very publicly quit being a vegan, admitting that what began as something joyless and disordered had become even more joyless and disordered." FTFY

In Canada AoC at age 14 was a holdover from the 1870sish period. In that era, many of the 14-year-old dwellers of the frozen frontier would probably be functionally adults. The government brought the age up to 16 recently to bring it more in line with the modern era.

This response implies that you do not know what "right-wing" means. Quebec has a heavily regulated economy with relatively high union presence, a plethora of social programs, pharmacare, universal daycare and nearly free post-secondary education. It is not right-wing at all unless you count the nationalist bent.