ALL oceans parks are disgusting. This bullshit about using "rescued" animals is a joke. Let's just pretend for a minute that they ARE rescued. Then rehabitate them and release - or create a sea pen or sanctuary. These creatures are not here for our entertainment. Blaring music at them all day, denying them food so…

Yeah, but Kshamenk has already successfully sired a few offspring, so they'll likely keep using him until they have too many calves sired by him, unless he dies first, you know, whatever. Then they'd have to move on to a new sire. Around 10 orcas were recently captured in Russia, so if those don't die right away I'm…

You're completely and utterly wrong.

He's mostly kept in isolation. A rep from The Orca Project watched for two days and no one ever even gave him a toy.

I think maybe THEY SHOULD STOP KEEPING MAMMALS IN CAPTIVITY THEN THESE ANIMALS WOULD NOT DEVELOP BEHAVIORAL ISSUES AND AGGRESSION! And $12,000 is NOTHING to Sea World. What a shame. They should be forced to SHUT DOWN and let these animals go FREE in their NATURAL habitats! How would you like going from a vast Ocean…

$12k is an insult. I feel badly for having visited as a kid. I will never ever take kids there.

$12k doesn't seem like enough. They need to shut that place down. No tricks and shows at all.

Remember when he did nothing but control and disrespect you during Couple's Therapy. RUN, WHILE YOU CAN.

Why do men truly believe that if they have daughters they love that means they can't be misogynist? This jackass apparently believes this enough to actually choose the sex of his children as a way to make a point. All that you having twin daughters tells me is that there might one day be two exceptions in the world of…

Me too. The more I'm reading about this, the more bummed out I am. No more "Colbert". No more "Colbert Report". He's just going to do lame jokes and interview boring celebrities in the most boring way possible. I really do not care what new rom-com Heigl is in. I'm sad I'm not going to see more interviews with…

I don't really find this bittersweet at all: I just find it bitter. The Colbert Report is a unique show that incisively skewers our media and political cultures, and late night shows are a dime a dozen and focus on cheap monologue jokes and asking celebrities questions about whatever new boring ass moving they're in.

I AM SO HEARTBROKEN OVER THIS. But hopeful and optimistic, too. I hope they give him plenty of latitude to make the show his, instead of trying to cram him into the existing format.

I actually do see the problem with that - that's my point. I was complaining about the limitations of photography. I wasn't commenting on any of the cultural implications of those limitations, or how they might have an effect on my life (because they don't, beyond an occasional plea for a friend to not post a…

I would never pretend that I can psychologically understand the black experience in America, or any specific aspect of it. I was simply acknowledging that photography itself has problems capturing skin tones outside of a narrow spectrum of skin tones, including those that are lighter than "normal." And when I am…

Aisha Tyler.

I can only imagine how much NBC pays Gawker to shill for their terribly bourgeois and mediocre programming. Jesus Christ, at least tag it as paid advertisement. We're not fucking stupid. It's just pathetic, Gawker should be on the forefront of blasting NBC for how lame and milk toast it's programming. Instead it's…

No. I'm against those photos being used to raise money as well (and I have issues with the whole "help the starving children" NGO structure in general, but that's a different story). I work with abused children and I don't understand why people think their privacy, agency and dignity are less important than the…

I get your reaction, but you're gravely misrepresenting the motives of people who question this photo being released publicly on gossip blogs. People are "kicking up a fuss" because everyone, even small abused children, deserve privacy and dignity in their time of suffering. He's not a symbol of abuse to disgust you…

people aren't upset about the photo because it makes them sad, which seems to be your critique of them. it's out of concern for the child's privacy. For the same reason newspapers don't usually publish gory photos of people dead in war — they didn't get abused or starved or die so that you could have a reaction and…

Yet another excellent reason for birth control to be available on every corner, for free. Of course these children should be cared for and loved now that they're here, but a great many adults are totally unfit for parenthood in the first place.