I know this is roughly the least important thing about this story, but you’d really think a CEO who’s trying to be taken seriously would have someone looking over his correspondence so that he didn’t capitalize a common last name incorrectly over and over.

So, to be clear, you think women can be whatever they want...except career-driven and willing to forgive a partner’s infidelity. They can’t be those things, apparently.

There really isn’t a number of times you ask someone else’s kid to do something that warrants cursing at them. Mature adults are capable of saying all kinds of variants on “please stop that” to a child (and “please make them stop that” to their parents) without cussing out a kid.

The linked article says the gun-toting asshole “got up and cursed the youth.” So yep, it doesn’t exactly sound like he politely asked the kid to stop and was unfairly set upon by the monstrous seat-kicking child’s mean, mean father.

As a disabled person myself, I wish like hell that those “poor overwhelmed caregiver” stories moved non-disabled people to think, “Hmm, maybe we should actually significantly improve access to good, supportive, accessible social services and healthcare so that caregivers to people with severe disabilities don’t get…

Okay, this is actually kind of freaking me out, because the best sex I ever had was with a Midwestern, Jesuit-educated Catholic guy who looked uncannily like young Tim Kaine. Is there some sort of hot-Midwestern-Jesuit factory churning these dudes out? Because if so...

U2's “One” is also a popular wedding song, for some reason. I know they have expressed bafflement in the past at how people can hear lyrics like “You gave me nothing, now it’s all I got” and “We hurt each other, then we do it again” and think, “This is definitely a romantic song about a happy relationship!”

He always had a kinda large head, he just used to cover it with long fluffy 80s hair. Now that his hair is short but still trying to be fluffy, it apparently grows straight up before flopping back down, which is...not a flattering look. (He’s still a pretty cool guy who has repeatedly ripped Republican politicians a…

This.

I’m not going to get into a debate about “corrupt” because I don’t really want to hear another recitation of the quarter-century worth of stupid right-wing “evidence” for Clinton’s supposed corruption, but I can come up with absolutely no reason one could call Hillary Clinton an “idiot” that isn’t rooted in either…

Yup. Playing games on your phone at a concert is pretty rude if (a) the venue is otherwise dark and your glowing screen is distracting people, (b) your game-playing is loud enough that people around you can hear it, (c) you are in an audience small enough that the performer is particularly likely to notice you…

I would think what liberal Catholic politicians are trying to achieve is (a) saying something that will appeal to a lot of people (which statements like that unambiguously do) and (b) answering questions honestly. When Biden expressed the exact same sentiment in the last VP debate, it was specifically in response to a…

For one thing, from a purely political standpoint, as I said, it resonates with a lot of people. 21% of this country is Catholic, as is Kaine. Catholic teaching is that abortion is wrong. Many of those 21% are a whole lot more likely to be comfortable voting for someone who says, “My faith teaches that it is wrong,…

For all that I disagree with him on that front, I don’t have a problem with it, both intrinsically (as I heard someone else say, if he’s not trying to control what I do with my body, I’m pretty okay with not trying to control what he does with his mind) and politically. “I wouldn’t get an abortion, but I don’t think…

You know, every time I think I’ve run out of rage towards the Republican party, they go and do something like, say, claiming that agreeing that women, children, and disabled people deserve basic human rights would have “ominous” effects on the American family, and I’m like:

It’s definitely a much lesser concern than literally any of the others, but if Trump does win (shudder), which musicians would ever willingly play the White House?

I’m well aware of how shitty Canadian residential schools were, but I have no idea how you’ve gone from “Canadian residential schools pursued a fundamentally racist goal of ‘assimilating’ First Nations children” to “doctors, teachers, and social workers collectively get off on rape and abuse.” No one has disputed that…

I have seen a great deal of evil in my life. I have been viciously abused. I am about as cynical as you can get, and I of all people am all too aware that there are wolves in this world who will dress up in sheep’s clothing.

Are you secretly my cousin’s kid? (If so, well done on the writing thing, seeing as you’re only 2 years old!) Because she had almost this exact same experience - nursing students who literally could not do “math” of the sort you describe and an administration that heavily pushed her to pass them anyway. The only…

I’m still annoyed about that merger. I used to divide my time between i09 and Jezebel (with occasional forays into Deadspin), but I’ve pretty much stopped reading i09 since the merger because the quality of the comments has gone straight to hell, and I don’t want to have a rage-aneurism.