This articulates very well a lot of the feelings I have about video games. I enjoy the GTA series probably because it's the closest you can get to an adventure game these days, and I can get into the campy moral relativism. However, there have been many times while playing and some horrible sexist shit comes up and…

@camera_obscura: I concur with Halfmad. Honestly, I think Mac is the future. I've never heard of anyone who's switched over and even considered going back to PCs. If you like PCs fine, but there's no way I'd ever go back. Individually wrapped things do suck, though.

This really doesn't look sterile. Her sweater is pulled over her gloves, and her hair is all down and long. At least she looks cute.

Good for Shannon Faulkner. I remember when this story came out, and am glad it had a happy ending.

Okay, I was totally on board with Latoya until I actually watched this. Yes, this skit really highlights SNL's lack of diversity, and personally I think SNL isn't funny anyway. But having lived in Japan and travelled around many different parts of Asia, I'm very attuned to Asian stereotypes. I actually think that…

@eri401: YES. I used to live in Japan, and this debate is totally absurd to me. I can't imagine anyone meeting the emperor of Japan without bowing. Just learning a little about the culture you're visiting goes such a long way, and bowing is the most basic thing you can do in Japan. If past presidents didn't even…

@morninggloria: Ah, that's what I thought at first, but it was a little hard to tell with the replies and all. Sorry, I guess I'm sensitive! #healthnuts

@morninggloria: Sorry to get all serious on your frontier-gibberish, but you have private health insurance. When you say you'd rather have access to choice through your private insurance than universal health care, you're basically saying that you'd rather have your plan cover abortions than for me to have any…

@mommy_dearest: I actually agree. The Stupak amendment is incredibly disappointing, but I'm uninsured and being able to pay for my daily medication and one day being able to afford to continue with the specialist for my vulvodynia ranks higher in my list of concerns than being able to pay for an abortion should I…

I went to public school in the early nineties, and they already had that ban on scary costumes. You could be a ghost or a witch, just not a bloody one. Pretty practical, actually, because you don't want a bunch of first-graders crying during the parade.

@FatLynn: Ugh, you're probably right. It seems like you're often screwed either way with those policies, whether you report harassment or not.

Fr0m the article:

Tyra was really pulling some 1984 Big Brother shit with that 1+1=3 thing. I have no idea what her point was other than "1+1 is whatever I say it is, Britney! I will put your head in a cage of hungry rats until I break you!" #americasnexttopmodelkimkardash...

@BytheSea: Yes, I think team unity plays a bigger role in this than people think. Even in Japanese junior high schools, kids on sports teams often get identical haircuts. The tennis boys have a close buzzcut, soccer boys can have hair a little longer because it looks cool, and volleyball girls get this REALLY…

@Ginmar Rienne: Oh, I totally believe in the business of mail order brides, but they're generally motivated by economic factors, which is why they're more prevalent in Eastern Europe/Southeast Asia. I just don't think it's likely for a Japanese woman to be a mail order bride, since there's not a big economic…

@Ginmar Rienne: My smell was socially inept guy who taught English in Japan in the early nineties and "found out" how much nicer/thinner/prettier/better wives Japanese women are than American women (Japanese women don't do mail-order-bride). I lived in Japan for two years and met a few older guys like him who treat…

@staryberry: It would also mean that Chester A. Arthur was an illegitimate president since his father was Irish-born.

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: I thought law was practical too, but apparently it's not. I was also an English major, and recently decided to apply to law school, only to hear from everyone I knew in law school or already a lawyer saying what a terrible decision it is, since it's one of the most expensive grad schools and…

@rhoswhen: This actually makes me sad. This year I applied to a bunch of different AmeriCorps positions, and got rejected from all of them. And I was way overqualified. I thought I was playing it safe on account of the terrible economy by going for AmeriCorps, but apparently that market's flooded too in my area. …

@Hooplehead: I don't really pay much attention to anything before Revolver, so I wouldn't defend them on that front. I'm not that into pop music. Which brings me to another thing. I don't get the big deal about Lady Gaga's music. I get that she dresses up and stuff, but from all of her performance art, I'd expect…