Oh god, "sparking a discussion" is the worst, isn't it? Like, what kind of discussion, friend? The kind where everything you say makes me hate you and no one learns anything of any value at all?

If she just wants to say that he is her brother, he is a human being and that she still loves him, I think that's brave — like you said, I imagine the pressure on her to turn away from him is immense. However, if her remarks amount to a defense of his actions in any way, obviously that would be intensely…

You made me love that sheep. And that sheep is dead. This is something for which I may never forgive you.

I think she may have chosen her words badly. You basically hit on it when you said he's still human and deserves humane treatment. As far as I'm concerned, as long as she understands that he has to pay for his crimes (and she does specifically say that), then I don't have a problem with her wanting to speak about his…

The phenomenon of hipster bigotry is weird for me. Ireland is a much more conservative country than the US in many ways, and far less ethnically diverse. But here, "hipsters" tend to be tumblr-having, social-justice-loving, Pride-marching college kids, rather than fedora-wearing racists. That's not to say European…

Don't worry. Someday, you, too, will learn to overcrowd your sentences.

First off, I support the idea of letting kids do whatever they want to like a cray extent (I struggle to imagine myself making my kids go to school if they don't want). So I am in no way judging Newman's parenting!

Does anyone else just want to throw their hands up for imaginary freeze-frame high-fives after like every Lindy West article? It just makes me so happy to read this. Lindy West is pretty much the only institution I hope is not overthrown during the revolution.

I know! "I believe they have truly liberated it." Oh, do you truly believe that? Do you?

But rape humour is so edgy! It rejects the status quo of our rape-free world and makes us imagine a world where sexual assault would be rampant, its perpetrators treated with impunity and its victims shamed and silenced! Avant-garde!

I know what you're thinking, I know, but Kings of Leon used to be a really decent band. Young and Young Manhood and Aha Shake Heartbreak are pretty good albums. Even the third one isn't bad. The fourth one is awful and I don't think I ever listened the next one the whole way through, and I totally accept that as…

Word. And in our revolutionary years we actually did have some cool shenanigans going on — Countess Markievicz, James Connolly, Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington — but as soon as Dev and the boys took the reins, that all died a swift death.

That's okay! Like I said, I guessed it was probably a terminology issue. As for the sources of her actual problems with the procedure, I have no idea what "adhesion" or "breaking loose" is. But I'm sorry if your son is experiencing pain, I imagine that can't be the intended result of the procedure.

I'm sure you just settled on the wrong word, but to hear that your wife is "disappointed" by the appearance of her son's penis is really creepy.

Yep! Like I said, that's because of the Eighth Amendment, which was passed in 1983. Most of the rest of the bad stuff stems from the original 1937 Constitution (thanks Dev xoxo) but the Eighth is a special gift from the decade the left forgot.

Either she was lying, she has seen very few patients ever, or her patients are too frightened to confide in her. All of which are shiver-down-the-spine terrifying.

Oh, they very much already have.

This doesn't technically "legalise" anything that wasn't already legal; it just protects doctors from a legal grey area that existed between constitutional provisions.

"Maybe in your experience, not in mine."

I think the fourth season is viciously dark and political compared to earlier ones, and I loved it. It takes time to appreciate the bigger picture of what's going on, and I think a lot of early reviews were written after only a few episodes, which might explain the otherwise inexplicable haterade.