We have a cultural "rule": Don't make death threats. Ever. We take them seriously. Whether you agree with it or not, I think that's an unwritten rule that most people accept.

It seems possible to me that they might also feel called out about the things they enjoy in video games: the hyper-sexualized, objectified women and the violence against women. If you did enjoy that stuff and then someone pointed out that it is pretty much evil, and you had a mob to back you up, you might react…

"Why don't moderate Muslims speak out against extremists?" we always hear. Why don't moderate gamers speak out against #GamerGate? Why don't companies speak out against it? I agree with this poster that people need to disassociate from #GamerGate. Otherwise they are sanctioning death threats and other harassment…

The universities should make their campuses safe rather than telling women to treat every minute on campus like they're in enemy territory. How? By prosecuting sexual assault and not throwing obstacles in the way of someone who wants to report one.

I have images of UW students doing evasive maneuvers as they walk to class. Everyone zigzagging everywhere. Who the hell wrote this stuff? It sounds like schools (colleges) not only got too much military equipment, they also got too much military leadership.

Was just getting ready to post about Curious George. Every single story: Curious George messes something up. Then he gets in trouble. Then he heroically saves the day. I don't think that's a great message to be sending to kids. "Everything's fine as long as you heroically fix it."

I went to a "Sugary Sweet Country Club Princess" easter egg hunt, back when I was crazy enough to attend an Episcopal church that was the Sunday morning outpost of the best country club in town (which I did not belong to). I looked around at all the young mothers in beautiful pastel head-to-toe outfits and thought:…

That was very entertaining! I'm not sure, though that any of those were intended as insults to him (except for the parrot one). The world does suck. The nuclear situation really isn't funny, but it's so bad we might as well laugh. Thank God for John Oliver and Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. I love that they all…

I wish I had been warned about how NSFW that link is. Within seconds.

America - we're doomed!

Not the same level, but... I was checking out a hippie-ish coop childcare for my precious 1st child, then a toddler. When I returned after letting her have a trial few hours there, she was the only child with the "teacher" who was lying flat on her back on the floor with her eyes closed while my daughter sat nearby…

The whole women's movement falls into this trap. When my mother was being paid less than a man for the same work in the 70s, yes, a movement was needed to get this fixed (hmm....). But the movement focused almost exclusively on women getting what men had — power and money in the existing corporate world, which was…

First of all, I can't believe this article doesn't mention the student worker activist group USAS. They have been working hard - pretty successfully - in getting colleges to stop buying logo clothing unless the supplier has signed the Bangladesh Accord (or Agreement? the stricter one). My daughter is very involved…

I don't understand why no one ever talks about profits. If McDonald's is making gazillions of dollars in profits, then they can afford to reduce profits in order to pay workers more. If the price of meat went up, that would cut into their profits. So what's so crazy about profits decreasing (by a tiny percentage)…

Tina Fey/Liz Lemon. Tons of jokes about how much she likes to eat. She couldn't be that thin if it were true. I found that slightly annoying. Eating shouldn't be such a big joke, whether it's over or under-eating.

You don't have to be a Luddite to see some problems with this design. I would never get into an autonomous car without a manual override so I can steer if something goes terribly wrong. And is no one worried about hacking? I would like to hear from other computer science folk here. Would you actually trust a car…

Strangely, The Guardian had a whole fashion video on how to wear socks with sandals: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/a…

That face reads to me as "I've had so many cool experiences/drugs in life that even being in Burma/Myanmar with a monk bores me." It's not just offensive to the people being used as props; it's the ultimate in elitism. But it might not be this. It might be that fashion has to go to extremes to be different and this…

When I was in high school the rich popular guys would stand in the halls in the morning making animal sounds. There was a group of smart-popular, but the main popular group was the animal-sounds group, not the smart group.

Are there innocent people in jail for the murders she claims to have committed? That's my first question.