Wow, what the hell, I just read it too. That snitch ring is so cute! If I were to get engaged I'd want something fairly cheapish because I am definitely going to lose it, and it's not like that ring is aggressively HP-ish (though it would still be shitty to judge people if it did). What the hell, Gawker.

I heard about a LOTR-themed wedding where they had a kid dressed like Frodo present the ring. I think I liked it even more because of the implication that putting on the wedding ring will bring the downfall of man.

Nobody has said anything whatsoever that contradicts someone's right to defend themselves. We are talking about how innocent until proven guilty does not apply when it comes to public opinion. It matters greatly in a court of law, for the reasons I mentioned above. What is ridiculous is when people say that we can't…

Most sorority girls found the first United Way on their campus? That sounds confusing.

Oh totally, racist either way.

I just made basically the same comment as this, but rereading she said "Rush and function shirts are okay to give to your guy friends". . .so possibly this is like, a general Sorority Promo shirt and not a shirt specifically for an event, so that's why it wasn't OK, not because this guy couldn't possibly be someone's…

So it also violates national rules to be friends with a black guy?

THIS THIS THIS. All the people who were defending Woody Allen kept saying "innocent till proven guilty", then going on to state definitively that Mia Farrow had brainwashed her daughter and filed false charges. Apparently even when there's absolutely NO evidence or even an accusation in court, innocent until proven…

THANK YOU. It's a standard that exists because we've decided as a society that the risk of imprisoning an innocent person is worse than letting a guilty person go free, but the knowledge that either can happen is terrible. It's an admission that the judicial system cannot be perfect, not a standard that shows that…

. . .did I read that wrong or do you think people shouldn't order multiple things if one person is working? Like it's not OK to order a drink and an appetizer and entree and dessert because of the number of staff present?

Well if it helps, it actually ends with the utopian island community being destroyed by big corporate interests and imperialism! So it's not too naive, haha. But yeah, it did function as basically everyone being a parent, though that doesn't limit the child from having special relationships with certain people.

I recommend Island by Aldous Huxley if you're interested in this— it's his Utopian vision, kind of the opposite of Brave New World. The community has something called "Mutual Adoption Clubs" where all the children on the island are the mutual responsibility of everyone, so if a child's parents are going through…

Works great as a Gilmore Girls reference, too.

Right? I thought that first one was a joke. Being there during someone's hard times will make them, not unreasonably, think you're someone they should come to during troubled times— ie, it'll make them more needy. I'm pretty sure if you pretend to care about someone's difficult life moments in the hopes that it'll…

I do enjoy when people defend something by saying "It's satire!" without any ability to clarify what, exactly, is being satirized.

Dunham also said that from a young age she and her sister were "taught very healthy boundaries. We were taught sexual boundaries."

ARGH. And then they hike up fares because they just have nooooooo other option, their budget is sooooo difficult. HULKSMASH.

$2.50, up from $2.25 a few years ago.

The only thing that brings me more rage than those is when they announce no train service with signs that say #FASTRACK. "There will be no trains going anywhere, probably ever. #FASTTRACK!!!"

I had a bus driver hand out cupcakes to all the passengers once. It was bizarre and very pleasant.