I worry about all of the athletes competing - in actual raw sewage - during a serious viral outbreak. We shouldn’t be sending anyone. I second MTV Beach House, with Olympic-themed events.

I will not google that. I choose to believe you.

The obvious double standard here drives me crazy. I’m trying to imagine what the reaction would be if boys were told they can’t wear shorts or short sleeve shirts because it might be distracting to teachers, especially if the rationale were that it’s too distracting to gay male teachers...

The real problem is that we allow girls to go to school at all! With their boobs and legs and various holes that could be penetrated....it’s a recipe for disaster.

I watched the thing. These Sanders supporters are acting like idiots, and they should be opposing superdelegates on principle instead of trying to get their own candidate elected by any means necessary. The latter option is truly illiberal.

Right. It’s like keeping a loaded gun on the table, and then promising never to use it. Whether or not you accept the promise, the presence of a loaded gun on the table changes your behavior. In this case, your voting behavior.

Your kids rely upon your belief that you’ve got a handle on it. They are much better at this than you could ever be. And they’ll be fine, but if you believe you are controlling your children online, you're naive.

“Parents can easily monitor their teens’ social media accounts.” Bwahahahahahahaha. Yeah no.

Make falsifying a report a felony. Flat out, non negotiable jail time for cops caught lying about incidents. It’s absolutely absurd that they know they can make shit up and just hope tapes don’t show up.

Fired is good.

Foos’s writings might be useful for studying voyeurs, but his observations were not unbiased or verifiable. They reveal far more about him than the subjects he may or may not have “studied”.

I don’t. I experienced the hotelkeeper as a garden-variety pervert with delusions that were used to justify his voyeuristic sex crimes. No new information there.

A better word would be protecting him. The fact he didn’t report Foos and allowed him to operate for decades is terrible. In that time, he could have protected the people who ended up getting violated by Foos. What’s worst, if this can be believed, he took part in watching with Foos.

It is not the duty of a journalist to aid and abet sex crimes.

The fact that he didn’t defend Foos means nothing next to the fact that he didn’t alert authorities. He let this scum get away with his crimes so that he could profit off of the story.

Maybe. But I think the reason he had to convince himself it was research was to placate any guilt he was feeling over it. And pretend it wasn’t really any different from Kinsey. Would a sociopath care enough about the violation to have to justify it to themselves? I have no idea.

Just to clarify we are talking about the Gay Talese who has never found inspiration in a woman’s writing?

This article made me crazy, and I’m so glad people are talking about it.

But I think it’s the duty of journalists to report on everything, even things that are uncomfortable or weird or cross ethical boundaries.

“Then I stretched my neck in order to see as much as I could through the vent, nearly butting heads with Foos as I did so. Finally, I saw a naked couple spread out on the bed below, engaged in oral sex. Foos and I watched for several moments, and then Foos lifted his head and gave me a thumbs-up sign.”