Like any conspiracy theory, anti-vaxxers will provide a complicated, yet usually internally-consistent, response to most evidence-based questions. Really, you have to have some training in epidemiology, or at minimum biology, in order to really parse through how their response doesn’t correspond with available…

I said this elsewhere here and on Twitter, but: I ponied up like $5 a month for Talking Points Memo, in acknowledgment of the good work they do. I would ABSOLUTELY pay $5-10 a month for a truly ad-free site containing my favorite buddies from Deadspin, io9, Jalopnik, the Root, etc.

I’m 100 percent in support of the entire Giz family resigning and creating their own independent publication free from Great Hill’s bullshit, and would do everything I could to help out. And a paywall would totally be worth it if it keeps everyone safe from vulture capitalists.

Hey Drew. You’re the best, and good luck with the brain and everything.

The thing is, it’s really impossible to erase that power dynamic from the relationship. If I, your boss, ask you to unload the dishwasher in my capacity as your significant other, it’s just not feasible for you to somehow not know that I’m your boss before you decide to point out that you’ve unloaded the dishwasher…

Best minimum wage job?

Dated, I know, but I always like to have an excuse to remind people of perhaps the greatest thing I’ve ever read:

His not-quite Tom Selleck moustache was just the perfect touch.

One of the greatest strengths of this show is how it will go to great lengths to show how every character is flawed. I can’t speak for GRRM, but I feel like maybe all the main characters are shit because it’s a reflection of humans in general. People are too easily ready to worship this character or that one, but the…

God what a horrible episode. For me, it ruins the entire series and makes me question whether I should even finish it (I know I fucking will). What a fucking shame, one of the best TV shows ever made has become...this. I’m too fucking tired and pissed off to really give a full breakdown, but just off the top of my…

What’s the name for someone who displays Dunning–Kruger effect like tendencies within their own field of expertise? Is it the Grunfeld-Gruden effect?

All I know is Reymundo Mundo is an extremely fun name to say out loud.

“Even my photo shopped soccer admission photos were hand me downs!”

Man, my parents had this book right out on their bookshelf in the basement (without the cover). I discovered it at 9 years old. Then a day later, all my friends discovered it too.

He doesn’t owe us an explanation.

No, she only sounds ‘stupid’ if you have white supremacist ideals of English language usage. Because it’s a living language with multiple colonized cultures participating in the growth of the language her usage is no less valid than that of an upper middleclass suburbanite’s, nor an Australian aboriginal’s, nor the…

George Carlin said it best: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

My guess is they were froze in amazement. People often freeze up in situations like this, unsure of what to do. 

Fucking dirt worshiping cocksuckers. Better than getting traded to the Yankton Snatches though.