That's the joke. The entire "controversy" has completely bypassed the issue Colbert and his writers were ridiculing in the first place: How in 2014, a team can still be called the Redskins. It's satirizing how we're so numb to the fact that Redskins is a long-defined racial slur but gooks and other words instantly set…

How about "Redskins?"

I think the tweet is a separate matter from the show's bit which is a separate matter from the intent of the original bit referenced in the show. Which is a separate matter from my disappointment in Jez's coverage. I JUST WANT SOME NUANCE, PEOPLE! I know it's hard to inject nuance into twitter, the internet, and TV…

I don't buy that they are liberals. No liberal worth their latte has never seen Stephen Colbert.

You mean, aside from the facts that the owner of a small business a) doesn't have to deal with asshole bosses and executives who take time to write demeaning WSJ op-ed's, and b) takes home the profit from a successful small business? You left those out, I think.

While that is one way of looking at it, remember that kickstarter is not an online retailer, and you are never buying anything on it. Those backer rewards are incentives, nothing more. When you donate to a kickstarter you are saying that you believe in someones dream, and you want to help them achieve it. There is an…

"I honestly cannot fathom why anyone would be upset or feel entitled because they donated to a kickstarter that got bought by Facebook."

Hence my question. Perhaps I should have said 'sponsored post in the guise of a regular post' instead of calling it stealthy. The point still stands. It's less of an article than an advertisement.

Yes and no. Sometime people have their minds (not hearts) set on adopting the animal they saw on the news the other night, and when we tell them its not available they just go "Oh." and walk out. Some kind of weird hero complex/fame whore thing.

Spay and neuter!

That's fine as long as the Jezebel office is willing to become an auxiliary kitten nursery. Y'all can take turns.

Kitten season is coming, folks. If you're interested in bottle feeding orphaned kittens until they're big enough to eat on their own, NOW is the time to start volunteering with your local shelter or rescue group. Kittens are starting to trickle in to my job, but in the next two to four weeks we're going to have a…

Wait... Pakistan is in India???

"feminism' is not a means to justify self entitlement"?

Where are all these feminists who bite men's heads off when they open doors for them? Because I hear about them all the time, when people try to discredit feminism or reassure people "i'm feminist, but not one of those feminists" but I have never met anyone too militant to say anything but "thank you" when someone…

F'real. The number of times my vegetarian husband has been offered seafood are too numerous to count.

Reason number one million why a single standardized core curriculum is a TERRIBLE IDEA.

Yes this has happened to me too, in Eastern Europe. I guess they don't get that pork is anything that comes from a pig.

Is there going to be a thread going the other way?

"'Is the Rockfish a fish?'