It’s been a while since I listened to Serial, but I do remember that one of the most compelling parts was Syed giving voice to just that ambivalence. He poses a question to the effect that Koenig may have many good reasons not to trust him, so why take him at face value. At least for me a huge part of my interest in…

Were it not enough to remind US citizens of the strong ethical reasons for supporting the end of these raids, it might be worth while to remember that many undocumented immigrants pay into social security without being able to benefit from it.

...maybe...

I read Kanye’s tweet in Trump’s voice.

I sort of agree and sort of don’t. It seems to me as though, even granting ideal conditions (absolutely confimed consent from totally self empowered performers, etc) pornography would still be at the least ethically complicated. Maybe it has to do with the way it trains viewers to regard performers as interchangeable…

The only thing I learned from this is that Leo DiCaprio is (unsurprisingly) the kind of person to wear an ugly cabbie hat.

“Where he will spend the evening eating ice cubes in a hairshirt”

I’m unsure if this qualifies as “dancing” but this is maybe the most conclusive evidence of David Bowie’s alien origins.

So I’m going to try a different track from listeriney and point out that what you call cherry picking may in many cases be the long tradition of exegesis that has always been the life of religious communities. Reinterpreting sacred texts in light of contemporary life is more or less how religion works. Insisting upon…