that the twitterverse can't tell the difference between something awful that he did (alleged rape and assault) versus something terrible that is true about our society and the NCAA (he's poor and can't afford to eat what he wants while he generates tens of millions of dollars for people who are already rich) shows…

the greatest political putdown of all time—molly ivins, RIP

and in the video we see george bush rub a black man's head, which is a thing that white people have done for good luck for some time. racist white people. because this paternalistic piece of nastiness has it roots in everything that is wrong with our country viz race. it's good to see george bush continue to…

this is what poe's law was invented for.

I think Ralph this is also a learning opportunity for you. Your perceived Bro-ness could be called a lot of think: boorish being one of them. It's not a good look. You sound cool, and I'm willing to take your word for it, but going forward you should think about how you come off in conversation. Bro culture sucks.…

ok, let's do this: "LeBron James's surprise announcement last Friday that he planned to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers from the Miami Heat offers important lessons for effective crisis management. Indeed, the most important lesson might be applicable to Obama as he ponders the Keystone pipeline this fall."

the PM of Hungray, Viktor Orban, leads a fascist government that is trended towards a straight-up dictatorship in the heart of Europe. And Ali Bongo of Gabon is a legacy thug who has tortured and destroyed his country with impunity! GOOD JOB FIFA!!!!

"nothing triggered all these assertions only that the plaintiff briefly slept off while watching the great game something or circumstance any one can easily found them self"—the great sarah palin herself could not have frontier gibberished it any better than that. wow. the "something" really takes it over the top,…

every so often, a commenter around here sums it all up in one or two sentences, removing necessity to ever have to ask questions about a given topic again. this is one of those times.

the people who work there, from cindi leive (EIC) on down, are pretty much uniformly smart, nice, and real, and that's why glamour can rise above the fashion thing to create real interesting content. but of course anna's the star, cindi's just a wanna-be in the Conde hierarchy, even though Glamour also sells a shit…

truth is, given i'm not a woman, and not the target for this, there's an element (ESPECIALLY TODAY FUCK YOU SUPREME COURT) of me feeling like an asshole for doing anything even approaching mansplaining about anything that is woman-oriented. but having said that, i still think vogue has a forum, and an important one,…

fashion touches on social relationships, politics, trade, labor, and a host of symbolism. any and all of these things are worthy of a great joan didion-like think piece. all of them are. every month. and the highest profile magazine about fashion on the planet chooses to pretend there's nothing to say about any of…

having worked at conde last year, and having spent A LOT of time with the vogue people, there is one thing that i simply don't understand: why, unique to conde's high profile magazines, vogue NEVER has articles that are of merit, are worth sharing with your friends, or move the needle culturally or politically. The…

my band was playing at the late lamented Al's Bar in downtown LA. There was a TV over the bar running the chase and its ending. The epic part was when we walked outside after the show—the nearby Parker Center had an apocalyptic number of helicopters hovering above us. it was otherworldly and terrifying.

i'm seeing lots of "they all do it" and "this is photography" all over this thread. it's just horseshit. there are plenty of photographers who DO NOT behave this way. my wife, Jill Greenberg, has never* asked anyone to suck her dick or otherwise exploited her position to hurt or take advantage of them. but the…

what's really fucked up about this bastard is, having worked with him on something—he's really smart, really interesting, and really nice.

on the plus side, this development calls for massive parking lots around the stadium, lots that will be empty 200 plus days a year, but will be BAKING hot. this will allow that area to be a useless charred hellscape of the soul, because no amount of data about how to create excellent mixed use development (less…

what i find amazing is the picayune levels of life detail around which all of this plays out. you didn't mention that bloomfield hills is the jewish suburb, and grosse pointe the waspy one. it's to the point that when i went out for dinner in a strip mall with my jewish in-laws in birmingham, i said upon seeing The…

i've played this sport at a high level my whole life, pretty much. coming in with studs up that high is NEVER acceptable. it's a straight red card no matter what, it's dangerous, it's shitty. you can only hurt people doing that. there is no legal version of that tackle, unlike a perfectly executed slide tackle…

I worked for Jan De Bont back in the day, and he developed a fantastic Godzilla script right before roland and dean came in on it. Jan had the key insight—Godzilla can't only be the bad guy. he needed to fight someone (in jan's script it was Mothra. on the brooklyn bridge. after we thought godzilla was dead, killed…