What is up with people who get all pissed off about crying babies on airplanes? Get over it you special snowflakes.

Your assumption here is a problem. You assume that the commenter is looking for a prize. They aren't. They are saying they don't need to apologize for sympathy and empathy which is offered without reward to all walks of life. That the automatic assumption (on your part, it would seem) that they are saying these…

Would you have said the same thing to the white Mississippi freedom riders? They were good white people, too, and they paid the ultimate price for their decision to stand up for justice. Or the straight folk who mourned the death of Matthew Shepard? Or the men who fight for equal pay for women? Or the able-bodied…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

I just went and read a Jeopardy discussion website. Their reading is this, and it makes perfect sense: the girl got really upset when she lost the game, so much so that she didn't come back on stage to stand in her place during the closing credits of the show, as is usual for contestants, apparently even those who…

According to the mom, Trebek didn't ever console the girl backstage. "If he had taken the time, he would have known, like you do, that my daughter is not a sore loser, and does not become emotional solely over losing a game," the woman wrote. "She was upset about not being able to completely play the game to the end."

You could actually see them turn into eight-year-old boys over the course of the segment. So good.

"it's mom..." I can only hope to embarrass my kids, on that level, at some point in their lives.

What you're describing is a criminal case to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute and then to convict beyond a reasonable doubt, within the statute of limitations. What you are not describing is the mechanism by which an individual or a society may decide for herself or itself whether an event…

So many people are going to cite UVA whenever they don't want to believe a rape has occurred.

She knew; they've been paying off accusers for decades. She's not the worst, because he's the worst. But she's pretty damned bad in my book.

Even if only one woman out of 20 is telling the truth, that means he's still a rapist.

Well, I give them points for making this all work for their group. Bollinger and Columber simply cannot win and hoping the problem will disappear when these kids graduate ain't going to do it.

"Headless corpse..." "...coroner not sure man was murdered."

1. Was probably Dingoes or at a push Meryl Streep. One of them did it.

I used to pretend I was Encyclopedia Brown. When I was nine.

I hope she bankrupts his amoral ass.

I feel really weird that I didn't hate it. My tolerance for Christmas songs is really high after working in retail, so that might contribute?

Apparently their visit romantic visit to the Eiffel Tower is going well..

If it wasn't for Gawker, I would have never heard of this guy. He lives for this kind of publicity. I wonder how many new visitors he has to his website thanks to these articles?