That clip makes me really sad. It’s so sweet how she’s so happy about her little toy, and then so devastated when it lands in the fire. I don’t see why it’s funny at all.

This reminds me a bit of an article I read yesterday (http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/05/…). Its thesis is that the left has allowed a certain strain of counterintuitively regressive identity politics to take over the movement, and the result has been a sort of bizarro-world conservativism where there’s a kind of…

Guys like JT or Ricky Martin are an exception because they were a member of group whose popularity was based on teen girls. This gave them the opportunity to leave said group, or move on after said group has disbanded and have a completely different career, with a completely different fan demographic. Justin Bieber…

Yeah, same. I don't trust this guy at all.

Yeah I was being sarcastic.

Typical liberal who doesn't like opposing viewpoints.

The whole thing feels kind of like an experiment in progress, and it's not clear what Valve is actually attempting to do. Was this whole thing just a test balloon, or a halfhearted initiative that'll eventually be set aside? Possibly. Will Valve deliver on the concept next year and finally see it through to some sort…

Are those cities in England?

Ah, spoken just like a paid shill with a script.

I don't usually say this but, holy shit you're a pro-Russian shill if I've ever seen one.

Huh. For some reason I always suspected that a lot of those mid/late 90's grunge 2.0 bands were actually just country hicks jumping on the grunge bandwagon. They were all from either the south or from rural parts of the country.

Don't worry, his parents are shitheads, too.

Thank you. For those of us on the political left to win this war (and yes it is a war—waged by them and on their terms), we need to hear and understand the conservative right's discourse. That means understanding its twisted logic and confronting it directly.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck that forever!

Dat Buddyhead burn...

I think you guys are missing a crucial part of information here, and an even greater irony. Typically when you see these timestamped pictures of a woman holding up a written sign WHILE NAKED it's because of a common internet rule: tits or gtfo. basically this means that on a given forum or message board, any time a…

So it's internalizedwhitesplaining?

Yeah, but I'm personally not surprised by the news. I'm sure many others in the NYC music scene can confirm that Thurston was always, always attaching himself to bands with young female leads—like a moth to the flame. That always raised a red flag for me, as I always sensed a sleazy sexual undercurrent to it all, and…

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford is an entertaining book on the subject.

Just ordered one for my niece. Her poor mother...