I will miss seeing the distinctive, world-wise perspective you have brought to every article you’ve written around these parts, Charles. So many people would unfairly presume an agenda on your part, but all I’ve ever seen is the sharp mind of a keen writer who’s unafraid to view comfortable entertainment under a…

You’ve written some of the most important pieces for Gawker’s network of websites in the past decade. I have learned so much about our society, culture, and myself from your work, and I expect that will continue wherever you end up. Sad to see you go, but excited to follow you at your next venture!

Not everyone’s suspension of disbelief snaps at the same place.

I’m not sure if T***p can contemplate having anything other than a fantastic, beautiful, magnificent, god-like legacy even if he literally ended the world through nuclear war or a pandemic. But during his presidency my most chilling moments leading up to the election were, suppose one of his smarter advisors prevails…

The first idea that percolated into Cheato’s orange skull was “OMG teh stock market!! This is gonna ruin my re-election unless I make it go away!”

Sorry if I offended anyone with my quasi rant. You know why I have zero sympathy for people like this? I bet you can guess. It’s when they use their position to be the mouthpiece of disinformation and do more harm to the public good than some asshole from Breitbart reading comments on a left-leaning Gawker site. The…

Multiple prominent anti-vax voices have died.

yup https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-booed-alabama-rally-after-telling-supporters-get-vaccinated-n1277404

Pfizer pushed back because *normal* people were concerned about the legitimacy of the vaccines.

I flagged that idiot.

Trump and the right wing press did dub them the “Trump Vaccines” initially. In fact when Pfizer was the first to make it towards actual release Trump even tried to take credit for it.

Which lead the company to push back publicly. As they hadn’t taken any “Warp Speed Money”. Stating that the vaccine was developed in…

It’s hard to believe just how badly Trump screwed any kind of legacy he could have had. In January before he left, if he’d have started talking about the vaccine non-stop and taken 100% credit for it, and referenced stuff like his “warp speed” program and been as narcissistic as he usually is, all of his cult…

And when or where did anyone in this entire comment section that you should seek medical help for any case of covid?

“anti-vaccine Facebook groups have been influencing members to not seek hospital treatment for covid-19 and even instructed them to pull their sick family members out of ICU”

I know it’s weird to latch on to one thing in this sea of crazy but I genuinely don’t get the fear of tracking. Dude, unless you don’t own a smartphone your minute-by-minute location data is already available for sale, legally, on the open market. Isn’t it a bit late to worry about that?

Hot take maybe, but if you catch a cop enjoying dispensing beatings, he should be yanked off the force at once.  No question.  That’s psychopathic shit.

23 incidents involving brutality against Black people! On what job can you break policy 23+ times and still be retained? Were they waiting for him to kill someone so they could promote him? There should be monetary compensation for every person this rabid dog brutalized no matter what the precipitating circumstances…

The key difference is that Lee and Kirby actually created the characters in Avengers #1. Mark Millar did not.

A small anecdote to illustrate the subjective perception of work performed: my then-husband once said with a straight face that he did equal amounts of cooking because he “cooked all summer.” Even without taking into consideration that summer in Canada is but three golden months, what really happened was that I did…

All of this, especially your last sentence. Divorce is often liberating as the men are then forced to bear total responsibility on their parenting days. If the man is not a dangerous abusive dickhead, forget full/primary custody. Joint custody is the way to go. Many women actually like their husbands better after…