Yup. Part of the logic of ISIS is that stirring up western hatred of Muslims is a recruiting tool. They need to convince Muslims that the western world is against them and their only hope is to join the caliphate. So when a half dozen guys with AKs and shotguns piss off a western country enough to get stepped-up…

Yes, I am quite worried about that. Strayed’s writing is amazing, Dear Sugar is the best of it, and some of those columns are among the most powerful things ever done with words. But they’re not fiction or easily adaptable to fiction, and I worry that sharing a title between the book and a tv show will ultimately just…

Dear Sugar is still the best thing she’s ever done, and one of the best things anyone has ever done with words. One column in particular explained my divorce to me in a way my ex-wife never could (http://therumpus.net/2011/06/dear-s… for the curious, and years later I did show it to my ex and she cried and confirmed…

I struggled with the same thought before hearing it, but I think I get it now. It would piss me off endlessly if he’d really just recorded her songs. Hell, I get angry when teenagers on youtube cover the most popular thing on the radio to try to get famous (I want them to go find *their* voice and let the person who…

Yes! Am I the only one who watched that video and saw a brain injury occur at the hands of a police officer?

They’re going to gradually introduce and enforce rules in an attempt to clean up the site without triggering publicity over an exodus.

Put it this way — that vile, misogynistic petition calling for Pao’s resignation got about 200,000 signatures last month. Reddit had a little under 164 *million* unique users last month. So 0.14% of people screaming terrible things get all the publicity.

I understand the sentiment, but she is, at the time of this interview, ON A PRESS TOUR FOR A FILM BASED ON A CONTROVERSIAL ISRAELI BOOK ABOUT THE FOUNDING YEARS OF ISRAEL.

The only instruction I think they reliably follow is transmission requests. When I worked at a publication that had several reviewers, we had a couple of writers, specializing in family cars, who didn’t know stick. A manufacturer once accidentally delivered a stick, and went out of their way to fix that as soon as…

Particularly when it’s pre-production, you can just level with journalists about that as well. I remember a rep for a Japanese company that no longer sells in the states telling me “please don’t photograph the trunk liner. This is pre-production and they’ve already decided on a different material.” So we just didn’t…

I haven’t reviewed in two years, but prior to that, I reviewed for five. I’ll just add two things about the stress:

I haven’t reviewed in two years (divorce, move, job change, etc...lots of things in the way), but prior to that, I reviewed for five year. Let me tell you, autowriters *overemphasize* the significance of an intuitive interface, because it’s just such a huge relief to get one.

Tree Trunks sounds exactly like my mother. My daughter watches the show just to hear her grandmother’s voice again, now that she’s gone. So your argument is invalid, and Jake will have some suggestions on where you can put it.

The article later says “Easter said he didn’t disclose the incident because he doesn’t consider himself to be a rape victim.”

Please revisit this headline.

Oh, come on. Just sing “The Neverending StoreeeeEEEEEEEE!” with the rest of us whenever Dany hops on Falc...er...Drogon.

“1. I knew Shireen was going to die as soon as Davos handed her that elk. Guarantee he comes back and finds it on the funeral pyre, and that’s how he knows what Stannis did.”

As a parent with a student currently applying to colleges — yes, yes, a thousand times yes. It’s astonishing to see the way that universities have become self-marketing machines who are no longer interested in being good at the thing they’re supposed to do.

There does seem to finally be a consensus emerging about us (I was born in ‘77). I never knew what generation I was a member of, but recently I’ve read several sources label us late gen X. I think it works. I’ve acquired a black leather jacket unironically, and explored some of that post-punk I ignored as a teenager,…

This was well-written. Especially the Dusty Springfield bit.