I am shocked and appalled at the idea of people watching porn at a public place like Starbucks — and I want Starbucks to be a safe place for employees and customers — but I also wonder about how Starbucks is preventing people from viewing porn.

No, term limits are a guarantee of making things worse. We’ve made rules to limit lobbyists’ influence. They find workarounds that become the new normal of corruption. Anytime we stop paying attention, they get away with more. Term limits make one kind of rot the status quo.

Lobbying and using government power to get a high paying corporate job is a problem but term limits just speeds up the process and makes it all worse.

Term limits are a bad idea that appeals to people who want a rule to do the work they should be doing as voters. Term limits do more harm than they do to fix the problem. It puts a limit on how much elected officials know about their work because there’s only a certain amount of experience they can learn from. What…

From what I recall about the original article, increased business led to dwindling service from people who were only going to visit it once because it was on a list and who would go on to write a yelp review about how terrible it was and smugly declare it overhyped... which in turn discourages any locals who might…

The photographer already sounds pretty terrible since he ignored Monroe’s demand that he not tell people she did the shoot and that he take the pictures in a way that she’s not recognizable.

I’ve yet to see any kind of romance in games that actually simulate getting to know someone and forming a connection, it’s just figuring out the right chat lines or gifts to move you forward. The Daily Beast article says the bot says things like “I’m sure you will love all the slutty surprises I have in store for…

They way I heard it explained when it applied to Hostess was:

I agree but it was particularly apt to observe Stan Lee’s death by making it into an opportunity for self-promotion.

I am reminded of a documentary we watched in class once about ukiyo-e woodblock prints. They were studying the catalogue of one ukiyo-e master. A chunk of his work had gone missing and scholars were trying to find them. Thankfully, this was a little easier because prints of his works survived even as they tried to…

What always frustrates me is how the media treats porn performers like they have no life outside of their sexuality, like it’s impossible to do sex work and be a functional person outside of work. Several years back there was a porn performer who was volunteering at a storytime event, reading books to children and the…

Also if it’s good porn they’re not thinking about enjoying the sex, they’re thinking of where the light is coming from, where the cameras are, how their body is posed and how they’re going to combine it all make sure it all looks sexy. Take all the nitpicks you hear from the ANTM judges and these performers have to…

I agree that this would be a good time to consider revisiting it. By now, I’m sure there are people who saw being part of the Trump administration blow up on themselves and need a less humiliating way to get back in the spotlight.

No. The people who were digging into Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct did it with an obvious political intent. They happened to be right but they only cared about scoring points on political appointments and getting back at their belief that Watergate, Iran-Contra and Robert Bork were proof that the deck was…

Yeah, the Slow Burn podcast dedicated an episode to her and part of it was an interview where she was told she could look back on her actions in her own words and she comes off as someone who would be outraged on Facebook about Barack Obama putting his feet up on the Oval Office desk.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking a lot about something I said when I was in my thirties... basically when I was 25 a relationship with a guy in his 40s didn’t strike me as a big deal but when I was 35, I couldn’t imagine being with a 25 year old.

She’s been a right wing media bogeyman for a while. The most practical reason for that is once you’ve made her a bogeyman your superpac doesn’t have to bother with making ads for every candidate, just make one saying “they’ll enact Nancy Pelosi’s radical agenda” and plenty will vote against that candidate without…

She’s been one of the right’s bogeymen for a while, conservative superpac ads used to warn that your local democrat will work to enact the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda. It was all the way back in 2009 that Glenn Beck “joked” about poisoning Pelosi. However, this year I’ve seen her frequently show up solo. It’s not like…

There was a very brief period when I was into the Victoria’s Secret catalogue as a gay boy. For like 2 or 3 editions there were male models, but since VS didn’t sell men’s undies (maybe they carried a couple of silk boxers) the guys were there as decoration for the sexy lifestyle you were going to have if you bought…

When I lieved in the Bay Area I wouldn’t have minded if they started arresting people who stand on the left side of the escalators.