God, it’d be great if this scandal took down both Christie and Cuomo

The “would you fuck a goat” passage gave it away, didn’t it.

Wouldn’t you know that anyway because she was writing under a pseudonym? It’s like launching an investigation to accuse jumbo shrimp of false advertising.

as a fiction writer and literary analyst - simply, no. a writer’s project should be analyzed out of context with its author’s identity, especially if it’s published as fiction. fiction is an artistic, intellectual exercise, one in which the resulting content most often has nothing to do with author, the author’s…

There was someone in the io9 Morning Spoiler comments today who (and I swear I’m not making this up) was upset with Chloë Grace Moretz for not being more forthcoming with her TRUE motivation for leaving the upcoming Little Mermaid live action film. Can you imagine living like that?

Yea but no.

He glowered at the screen from his mother’s basement with all the intensity he could muster. “That is a picture of Digimon” he hissed.

A shorter version of this article:

What if the author chose not to link her identity with her writing precisely to avoid that kind of analysis? This insistence that an author’s biography can reveal deep and meaningful truths about their work tends to result in the pigeon-holing artists who are not white men.

My first clue was all e-mails to Stephen King asking to “splice” her book into one of his.

“We may add nothing of import, but we do so *loudly*”

I’m glad he finally confirmed my suspicions! I was shocked at first to learn her identity, but after I went back and reread her books, I realized that Elena Ferrante’s writing style was exactly like Ashley Feinberg’s.

Countries around the world have the pill available over the counter, and things are just fine. If you want to know why doctors REALLY oppose these measures, just remember that when you go to the doctor to get your prescription, the doctor charges a ton of money for the meeting

I disagree. Birth control is available over the counter in a lot of countries and is very safe on the whole, and there are a lot of people for whom the requirement to see a doctor is a substantial burden.

It’s like his “the wall just got six feet higher!” routine. It sorta sounds good but falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

“Part of what he did there was shift his own personal debt onto his businesses, thus getting shareholders to essentially take on his financial burdens.”

Why do you hate our troupes?

After watching this twice, I am still not sure how it works. Without networking, how do you find someone to have a 10min conversation with, or go to an exercise class with? (uhm, no).

We’ve reached a point in white pathology that being accused of racism is worse than actual racism.

This was the only option I ever had. While it’s better than nothing and does provide a good way of seeing more than one perspective, it lacks the “weight” and “leg up in the future” one good mentor can provide.