Your comment combined with your username made me cry and laugh together, which is pretty much the best reaction I can have to this world, so thanks. And I’m glad you’re finding some happiness along with the grief. Nothing ever really cancels anything out, I know. But I’m glad you have what you have today. And a…

We’ve all see this a billion times. He wears ties from the Big and Tall store, and they don’t have the heart to tell him.

Yes, and I think it’s psychological. Those ties dragging on the floor? That happens if you buy the longer tie made for taller guys and you don’t need it. He’s shopping as if he’s larger than he is, because that’s how he sees himself, and he ends up looking like a kid in his dad’s suit because nothing he owns fits.

Source: A decade ago, I was a reporter covering Native American issues. I moved on to other beats and haven’t engaged seriously on that in a decade, so some of my knowledge is undoubtedly out-of-date. But land use law changes slowly, so I’m pretty confident most of this still applies.

Jon’s already been burned, so we know he doesn’t have Dany’s magic fire immunity. When Lord Commander Mormont was attacked by a reanimated dead body (season 2 or 3 I think?), Jon threw an oil lamp at it and burned his hand in the process. Spent a few episodes walking around with it wrapped.

This, this, a thousand times this. American police are also trained to interview chronologically, and taught that information isn’t reliable if it can’t be recalled that way. There have been a handful of police departments that have experimented with a different method for interviewing sexual assault victims (if I…

Precisely. I don’t know the man and can’t speak to his psychology, but something about this feels...performative.

I believe you’re fairly young, from your mention of university, so let me just say this from an older perspective — by your 30s, that idea that there’s something wrong with “breaking up over sex” seems absurd. It’s fine to break up over sex.

Guy-to-guy, I just want to say this — be extremely careful not to let your empathy for her struggles with expressing her sexuality get you into a situation where your sex life together feels like it’s unsafe for you. I’ve been there. I had to learn that, though I understood *why* my (now ex) wife had the struggles she…

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: