Maybe so. It's just otherwise a totally stupid thing to say. By the time the average Canadian is in junior high he knows that Marc Lepine did it because he hated women. This is not in any way a mystery.

She was right to leave him — Belinda Stronach could do way better. I wish she was the Conservative leader.

NHL playoff game?

Maybe he meant "understand" in a cosmic sense, as in "we may never understand why bad things happen."

There's also the problem that there's no quarterly profits in developing an FTL drive.

If you really had money you'd be doing something better than trolling people on Gawker.

A former state attorney general and current governor can do whatever he likes (within reason) with his sex life, but hiring prostitutes in New York is criminal. Politicians shouldn't get passes to break the criminal law, regardless of how stupid that law is.

It's a lot easier since the advent of birth control and abortion. Somehow I have managed to have sex for over a decade without an unplanned pregnancy.

I think it's unwise to be a single parent with two kids when you make no money. But I agree that higher education should be more affordable.

So does a college grad who makes $35,000 before taxes, but thanks for your thought.

I don't think $35,000 after taxes is a king's ransom but a lot of people make $35,000 before taxes out of college. If you could really make $35,000 after taxes on welfare that's a fairly strong disincentive to bother trying.

This whole debate could be largely sidestepped if the federal government would just allow people to earn their first $30,000 or so (or however much a person needs to live on) tax free then provide benefits for the chronically disabled and people laid off from their jobs. Just my two cents.

I think that their calculation was "why make it any easier for Ghomeshi to jump to a rival if the only price we have to pay is alienating a young woman?" Though I agree, it would probably make sense to at least go through the motions of having a talk. I think workplace litigation is much, much less common in Canada so…

The approach you outline would make sense if the employees bring in equal amounts of cash to the network. But in this case the woman was essentially disposable to the (consistently underfunded) network, whereas Ghomeshi was seen as irreplaceable talent for whatever reason.

I originally thought that you were indicating he is, then searched the Internet for evidence of that. Sadly I found none.

"Long December" is a song by the Counting Grows sung by front man Adam Durtz. Jakob Dylan fronts the Wallflowers, a totally separate band.

An article from 1918 in a single magazine. People in the 19-teens also called it "The Great War" rather than "World War I," but that doesn't make that the correct term today.

Google "American Front World War I" and you will find this is a term only used inside your own head.

I have no idea what the statistics would be but I would imagine the sample size would be very small, since there are very strong pressures on men not to report being the victims of rape in the first place. The pressure is particularly strong in the contexts in which male-male rape is most likely to occur, the military…

In the UK women cannot be charged with rape, so there are no "false allegations" by women to report.