Are we supposed to believe Chelsea asked Bill Clinton for a DNA sample, or stole a hair from his hairbrush, or asked Monica to borrow the Gap dress, or what?

Yes. I am butthurt because the world didn’t view this issue with the same level of righteous indignation I did. I can accept that characterization. That’s what I’m on about. I don’t work for Google and I don’t care about Google. Let me try to explain as clearly as I can what I’m on about. “Snark on this issue is bad,”…

Of course I realize that. What I’m criticizing is Jezebel/Gawker Media’s gleeful trumpeting of the unfortunate incident.

I will repeat, anyone who snarks on this unfortunate incident, as commenters in other threads on this story have, is an ass. I stand by that. The first comment was along the lines of “Great, now people will demand monetary compensation, amirite?” That’s what I’m on about. Why was this even on Jezebel? with the…

No, that’s not the point I was making. The point I was making is this: Jezebel meant for commenters to snark. I don’t care about Google, although I do agree Google handled it fine. My point is that Jezebel could have kept out of it, so as not to spread this farther and wave it in people’s faces. My point is that…

Anybody that chooses this topic to play the “aww have a sense of humor card” is indeed an ass.

I’m honestly not trying to have the last word on this, but I’m trying to answer each critic sincerely. Yes, I read the “Google is sorry” headline. I don’t take it straight-on. I take it as a snark and an invitation for others to snark. The biggest reason is Jezebel didn’t have to make a big deal of the incident in the…

We can talk about it without snarking about it. Jezebel meant for there to be snark. Totally. It seems many other commenters can’t see that and think it was placed on Jezebel innocently “just reporting the news.” They’re the ones who don’t have a clue. Look at the way the headline is phrased again. It totally has an…

Elsewhere in Missouri, Hermann ( a small town of heavily German heritage) just appointed an African-American police chief.

Yes, because it’s important to point out. Back in the 90’s there was tremendous controversy over whether intent made something offensive, or whether the way it was received was more important in whether something was offensive. We can still argue this point, but it’s an important point to discuss. We’ve spent the last…

I thought better of Jezebel, especially. They knew what kinds of comments they were inviting by making a big deal of it on Gawker Media.

It’s not hilarious, and anyone who thinks it is hilarious is an ass.

Why’s it on Jezebel? Because that’s where it’ll engender the most controversy. They knew exactly what they were doing, and what kinds of comments they were inviting. Gawker Media was inviting mean comments on purpose.

They ran it to get clicks. No other reason.

Gawker, Jezebel, why would you run this story, further publicizing the unfortunate mistake and giving mean-spirited people the chance to snark, retweet, and hurt even more people’s feelings unnecessarily? All week you’ve been rightly criticizing people who display the Confederate flag, rightly pointing out that it…

Me too! I’ve had my plate grabbed before I was finished and I feel food-shamed in front of the group.

I’m old; I heard about it when it happened.

Because I have a strong suspicion that people who haven’t tried it and don’t know much about it will jump in bashing it. I don’t have the thick skin to be a promoter but I might try to work my way up to it.

I read the mammoth fucking article, because I care about a particular region that happens to produce cheap wine. It’s off the beaten path. It has a rich and somewhat painful history. (Destroyed by Prohibition; trying to make a very slow comeback) I wasn’t used to the kind of grapes grown in this region, and therefore…

Behold, it is written in the Scripture: “And said unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but you have kept the good wine until now.” John 2:10