It couldn’t possibly be the naked contempt on the part of republicans, nope no sir I know that for sure. More pious tweets about the sad necessity of shooting unarmed 11-year-olds and the need to put aside ‘divisiveness’; African-Americans will just come running for that shit, yes sir.

Yes. Young activists: Someone asking you ‘what laws would you specifically want to see changed?’ IS NOT a form of condescension or derailing.

Yes. From C.S. Lewis:

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Why might we? Do said insults to her appearance somehow redeem her foolishness?

Why are you sure of that? What evidence do you have? Or is this just faith-based assurance on your part?

Yes, Islam is quite shameful.

No, it’s Islam. Islam has had 1,4000 years to get over ‘tribal customs’. After that long, it’s no longer a bug, it’s a feature.

Actually you really, really can, in fact, blame religion for misogyny. It’s not ‘weird’ at all. Just for starters, Koran says testimony of 2 men equals that of 4 women.

Bunny-girl can grab my thick carrot any time she wants.

2016 Finalist for the Reverse Sabrina Erdely Prize in Narrative Entrepreneurialism

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…