The blogging business as a whole has been suffering: The Awl moved to medium, The Toast shut down, of course Gawker was killed off by Peter Thiel but underneath that was the fact that profitability had stagnated.

This. This isn’t some conspiracy: the content has been getting worse and there are new outlets for LGBT people. Plus, the blogging business as a whole has been suffering.

STOP. THIS.

It was? I ONLY ever see dudes driving the XC90. Like, I even have this image of the XC90 man: the “I’m comfortable in my masculinity but fatherly but not really because I am still driving a big SUV and I just thought the Volvo name would make people not speculate on my penis size” -man.

They do this in the military. It’s “up or out.” If you can’t be promoted in so many years, you are forced to retire. There are exceptions for certain Special Forces roles and certain highly-skilled roles, like doctors, dentists, certain IT people, etc, and it has led to some people dropping out who may have been…

Open carry does not change police use of force procedures.

Open carry does not change police use of force procedures and the 2nd amendment isn’t used the way you are saying it is.

It is legal but that does not change the legality of police use of force procedures.

Open carry does not change police use of force procedures.

Just a quick note: Open Carry does not affect police use of force.

It still weird me out that “Atlanta” is somehow about “blue collar” life. Like, who exactly in the series is “blue collar?” It follows a Princeton drop out and a rapper, I mean really?

Somehow, Entertainment Tonight did what Ellen DeGeneres could not and got an answer out of Darden about whether or not he and Clark were anything other than two capable lawyers two utter morons who were out-performed at every level and let a murderer get away with it working under extreme pressure.

They aren’t going to have the Senate after this year. And really? How scared and how fragile are you that you would suggest I am somehow a paid commenter?

Anyone ever feel bad for Paul Ryan? I mean he just wants to lower his friends taxes and generally keep things the same (socially). And now he has to juggle a garbage fire.

It has Kristin Bell AND Ted Danson. I watched as a matter of course.

Every other week? That sucks.

Having her husbands friend living in the poolhouse at ONE of their homes?

Rumor mill is he cheated on her with Marrion Cotilliard. Other people down thread are saying its because he uses pot when the kids are around. Which maybe makes sense: Angelina is a former heroin addict, and lots of former addicts have TONS of hang ups around other people using drugs (though I never understood the…

Gary Johnson seems to be a very-much Economics-Policy-Oriented-person, and not really a anything-else-person.

Colbert can interview the shit out of people. It sucks that his ratings are lower than Fallons, but Colbert can really pull stuff out of people that they probably wouldn’t say elsewhere.