I think Gawker’s lede here is exactly that, no, there is no organized race riot. Yes, the story is invented for clicks by a handful of internet racists.

Man Who Strips Almost Naked, Rubs Himself With Oil and Beats Another Almost-Naked Oiled Man With His Fists For Millions of Dollars Calls Gay People ‘Worse Than Animals’

Wow. Metal.

What are you talking about? It’s a huge showing of solidarity by the Ninja-American community!

Meanwhile, laboring away in the Outrage Mines . . .

It would be a step in the right direction if at least it were men who hadn’t run out of credibility 15 years ago.

I refuse to believe they are that hard up for finding women writers.

Dowd is only symptomatic of the NYT’s ‘tenure problem’: Of taking on columnists who at one time were considered hot stuff but which the passage of time has revealed to be very weak beasts, indeed. But for some reason they keep getting contract renewals. This applies to Dowd, certainly. But also Brooks, Friedman,…

One day I hope Maureen Dowd wakes up on the floor of her Manhattan apartment to find a used-up tranq dart in her buttock and a heavy, unremovable polycarbonate collar affixed to her neck. Normally, it does nothing . . . except if she writes about a public figure using a stupid little made-up name for them, in which…

There you go, then: We know it can be done. So we’re just waiting on you, Lena Dunham: Post a video of you single-handedly shoeing a quarterhorse and we’ll know you mean business.

Seems it would be common decency for them to at least rip a phone book in half. Wouldn’t even have to be a phone book for a large city. Pittsburgh would do.

Why is it I suspect that none—not one—of the ‘strong’ women ever identified as such could, if asked, bend a cast iron frying pan in half?

I’m not bugged by viral content per se. Rather, I’m more annoyed that it’s never viral content that serves my interests. To wit, why can’t I fire up my Facebook-mo-tron in the morning and find a continual scroll of:

You’re through the looking glass, I see . . .

A little bit of schizophrenia is so much better than a lot or none at all.

Sorry, I’ve been told that sexism is JUST as bad in the West as it is in Moslem societies, so she’s basically just out of the frying pan, into the fire, now.

B-bu-but, I’ve been told my so many very, very well-informed internetpersons that wearing a headscarf ensures that women in Moslem societies are treated decently and equitably and that the overall wonderful progressive equalness of Moslem societies is SO much better than the nasty sexism of the West! HOW COULD THIS…

I have heard so, so many times that our highways are only as crowded as they are because there are so many illegal immigrants. Truly. As if the Ventura in L.A. will take 10 minutes once we’ve gotten rid of them all or something.

That is like the worst thing: When people start talking—particularly with three or more appended clauses—without thinking ahead to how they’re going to tie it all together. Notecards people!

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