But what about transgender and genderqueer people? What an asshole.

Uhh this all seems pretty reasonable aside from some rudeness/insensitivity from the staff. I'm not seeing what is so horrible here: the policy for trans prisoners seems pretty reasonable considering the competing concerns (i.e. women *not* wanting to have pre-op transsexuals with male anatomy housed with them). Of…

BMI isn't garbage, it's just not perfect. Surprisingly (not surprising at all), a single number doesn't give the whole picture. But it gives you a much better picture than zero numbers. It's great for giving you an estimate, and it's pretty easy to tell from the number that she's borderline underweight. I don't…

People borrowing other people's ideas is how music evolves in the first place.

The suit is ridiculous. The precedent this would set is that a song with a different melody, different lyrics and different parts yet is stylistically similar is infringing copyright. Blurred lines is highly derivative of the Marvin Gaye song, but it's certainly not the same song. If you weren't allowed to write…

Yeah, I don't know, I feel like this is one of those situations where everyone who's waded into the fray looks bad to varying degrees. Her blog is ridiculous, but of course the hate mail is much worse.

Yeah I personally find her blog a little ridiculous. Some of the pictures show people being somewhat inconsiderate, some of them show people doing things that don't even affect anybody, yet apparently offend the author.