The best part of this was when Iris was in a hurry for the notes because they had to “go to press”. Like she’s got a giant newsprint machine hiding in her office somewhere to print out her blog. Also, they should learn about Google Docs or Wordpress or something, you can do collaboration without wasting all that paper…

It’s a website: It publishes articles based on articles on other websites, articles that consist of lists of Tweets and articles that talk about what people are Tweeting or posting on Instagram.

I, for one, enjoyed Allegra being promoted to “staff writer” at a two-person news operation. I can only imagine what Iris’s paper looks like. She doesn’t go out reporting, we never see her doing any kind of journalism (leg work, phone calls, internet research), so what does the website publish? I guess she’s as useful…

Make sure to describe your kid correctly. As a kid, I wandered off in a mall. As an adult, I learned that my dad had provided a perfect description to the security guards... a perfect description of my brother. :)

First time saying this: thank god I’m too old to give a shit.

Or to the lay person, “Why are those people dressed insane on a beach holding a large firearm.” They look dumb enough, maybe theyre dumb enough to bring a gun, maybe theyre dumb enough to not know safety.

If you are carrying a fake firearm around in public where people aren’t expecting to see fake firearms (as opposed to a cosplaying convention) then it has to be recognizably fake from a reasonably distance otherwise you’re just asking for trouble. I played a bit of airsoft as a kid and got tons of looks from…

Good thing she was not a black cosplayer, or this would have been a completely different post... on The Root.

Yeah, your advice is super cute for those of us who work outside and have to wear protective clothing.

And we’d all like to ask Jonathon Frakes if he’ll be doing a bit on Star Trek Picard. Either as Will Riker or Tom Riker. Personally i’d go for Tom, have him bust out of the Cardassian Penal Colony he was stuck in.

Truly a godlike genius. RIP.

The answer to the problem of recovering his body is simply that they don’t get to do that. Any effort to recover this man’s body will further disturb these people and put them at risk. This man broke the law, and selfishly and stupidly attempted to force his religion on people who do not want it. Sometimes committing…

I don’t feel bad for his family. They’re probably the ones that brainwashed him and made him think this was ok in the first place. This is the logical conclusion.

“I felt some fear but mainly was disappointed,” he admitted. “They didn’t accept me right away.”

I wrote a sort of “why” comment and I’d say the same thing about a male writer. Jonathan Franzen earns so much side eye from me. His memoir and his novels are shit. He’s just a writer of beautiful sentences. Never got David Foster Wallace either. I like writers who have complex views wrapped in layers of…

I have never understood the worship of Salinger. Never. Catcher in the Rye is terrible. I got the point of the novel, I really did, but there are so many better writers out there who could have made the read far more interesting. The books they assign in high school are yearly memorials to damaged men and their…

But when men like Knausgaard give details of their literary wives suicide attempt while pregnant, that is brutal honesty. I know I’m guilty of it too, but what about the male experience lends itself so perfectly to literature while he female is left to the realm of gossip, attention seeking, blogger/diarist.

God help us if Maynard and Lena Dunham ever decide to collaborate.  

Can’t this be done in a way that highlights the fight against white supremacy (ie focus on King and others), and not drawing attention to individual scumbags who haven’t done anything newsworthy this week?

How about we don’t spend Martin Luther King Day talking about websites by white supremacists?