Though he doesn’t have Brynner’s range, I’ll bet Lauer could give a pretty convincing performance as a robotic cowboy.

To illustrate your point, the way Jeff Ross became known as the ne plus ultra of roast dudes was through the following sequence of events at Jerry Stiller’s Friars’ Club roast:

The bored Bard College sophomore who mashed up 40 oz to Freedom and a bunch of Pusha T songs and called it 110 Packets to Freedom received a lot of encouragement and praise from her friends, but the project was actually nearly unlistenable and really only served as a grim reminder of how fucking hard Sublime (stripped…

If anything I could say that this coach was rare

I’m a white dude who works as a mental health professional in a residential treatment facility doing cognitive behavioral therapy with at-risk youths (and who was hired in large part years ago because I am very close to one of the trustees). I know for a fact that if any of my clinical directors (who are also totes…

Right, but she also likes strawberries.

Sorry dude but mine is gonna come out first. I am cheating by using exactly the same template I used for “Maybe Bowie straight up raped a woman,” and “Bowie DEFINITELY fucked that fifteen year old groupie,” and also “So we need to talk about Nate Parker.” Stick with what works, I always say.

Ha ha Jesus. That’s definitely ne douche ultra material.

That was your mistake. I’m not at all sanguine Lochte doesn’t murder drifters. That’s the problem with satirizing mega-entitled jock dude bros—it’s hard to go too far enough. Bret Easton Ellis ran into similar problems late in his career when the excesses of rich white dudes far outpaced his imagination for…

I also disliked your original post, but then you won me over with the “...horror movie with the strange but eventually moving soundtrack playing out in reverse” line. I’m now interested in reading more of your takes.

In my job doing therapy with kids from troubled backgrounds transitioning from being locked up to trying to piece together some kind of life in the real world, I work with (mostly black, all poor) kids who will have to go through the terrible inconvenience of registering as sex offenders for such heinous crimes as…

Yes, that is exactly the joke I remember!

Fair enough.

Yes, this.

All child brides are rape victims but not all rape victims are child brides. Calling Smart a “child bride” is understandable from the point of view of groping for the right phrase and finding something wonderfully connotative and colorful, but it is also inaccurate (though obviously not deliberately disrespectful).

Thanks for this. Hope you read my reply above, although it’s both sloppy and will come off as frightfully jejune, I fear.

I wouldn’t answer this question for just anyone, but I have a weird memory for screen names and I’m like 90% sure I remember you dropping a Murder She Wrote reference at some point a few months ago, so it feels like we are old friends. :)

That is a charitable assumption, and also a reasonable one.

As a white het cis male who has thanklessly taken on the awful burden of being an Ally, it reaffirms my belief that discrimination against White Het Cis Lapsed Episcopalian-Converting to Judaism My Age Who Are Me is the last real kind of discrimination left. And yet I continue to fight for justice for all of you other…