I think being 13 years old is a far higher obstacle to being taken seriously as a sports journalist than being female. (I’m pretty sure that I don’t knowingly read any teen bloggers on any subject, but I do read plenty of female bloggers, sports or otherwise.)

Indeed, the always-correct answer when someone whom you only know as a faceless on-line figure threatens to kill themself if you don’t do something questionable for them is, “Do it.”

Are we supposed to think she’s not a sociopath because she did this under a fake name?

Only took five years from when you requested it!

The full lyrics of the Cheers theme could be construed as transphobic. This is the fourth verse (emphasis added):

O RLY?

Aren’t there regulations to report the news?

In another big surprise, Fox launched its “news” network a relatively short time after these changes were made.

Except, of course, that there are plenty of people who have survived mass shootings (including people who were wounded and/or knew the other victims around them) who talk about having prayed and found comfort in their faith even while the shootings were ongoing.

Half were children, not suffering, not sad, but hopeful for a lifetime of the joys on Earth allows.

You’ve forgotten that colonization is totally cool as long as it wasn’t done by those dirty gross English-speakers or the very specific individual of Christopher Columbus.

Not an act of terror because there’s no evidence anyone has shown thus far that Paddock had any political agenda in committing the killings or that he otherwise intended to influence any larger group of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism#United_States

Talk about kicking people while they are down!

Starred for use of the “ur-” prefix.

But where do people learn these open secrets?

you can be a homosexual and a pedophile, you can be bisexual and a pedophile, you can be pansexual and a pedophile

And because he is gay he can’t prey on a minor?

I used to use, “God bless you” and “gesundheit” roughly 50-50, but went to exclusively using “gesundheit” about 20 years when I worked in a job with a Chinese (not Chinese-American, but Chinese-Chinese) boss. I reflected on the fact that he probably wasn’t Christian and that it could be construed as some sort of…

There’s a deep cut! (Or deep crash, as the case may be.)

I was going to say, “Shouldn’t this be cross-posted to The Root to go alongside the various stories about African-American airline passengers being victimized?”