The Court is NOT on Dr. Luke’s “side.” The Judge merely applied the law to the facts. As an attorney one of the hardest things to deal with are bad facts. They are what they are and we do our best to construe them most favorably to our clients but ultimately Judges have no discretion to choose a “side” they like. It’s…

There’s are still a lot of problems with the “we’re all Africans” part. It’s both reductive and non reflexive (i.e. it posits that non-African peoples have some claim to Africa, but does not extend the reverse claim, that African peoples have claim to the rest of the world).

Keep them around, the next online scandal is surely starting somewhere.

Dammit, now what will I do with my e-pitchfork and e-torch?

I don’t see anything actually wrong with the comment now. She was asked if she can understand movies from certain cultures, and her response was basically, “I don’t know much about the intricacies of the Middle East but I think we all share some commonalities and I understand the humanities in those films.” Maybe I’m…

It’s a little more than “not exactly what happened.”

“We exercised poor judgment” is the active voice— “the poor judgment that was exercised” is passive voice. Awkward, tortured passive voice at that. Every writer and editor in his organization who read that sentence cringed.

“We take responsibility” is, quite clearly, the active voice. Pluralizing the first person (to reflect all of SB Nation) does not make it passive even if it dilutes Lockland’s personal liability.

That’s.. now how I read it. I read it as in the organization as a whole. He’s apologizing for multiple people, thus its grammatically accurate. Which makes more sense as the ball was seemingly dropped not just by him alone.

Jeez, didn’t you read the story? He was a former football player who once played football but no longer played football, and was well liked by the people who liked him! And those rapes he committed but maybe he didn’t? You weren’t there so who knows?

Only four commas? This, is why you comment on stories, and, don’t write them

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I don’t trust her, either. She doesn’t even look the same from when she was in the movie!

You make a great point. Most lifestyle and fashion personalities in the Philippines come from extremely affluent families.

It didn’t and I think that kinda speaks to another issue surrounding the whole thing—-maybe these bloggers aren’t interested in speaking out about race issues because they have a lot of class privilege.

I have a friend who’ll be sailing in 2016, and he’s absolutely terrified. The few who have already sailed in the marina came back with horrible skin infections, stomach flus, etc. I believe one of the sailors who was at the test event said this, but their strategy is basically to leave as late as they can for Rio and…

Serious question here: Why is this still not a mainstream story? I mean, what the fuck does it have to take to get this out there so something will ACTUALLY be done about it? Also, I feel the US should seriously consider boycotting events like the Olympics and The World Cup until human rights are upheld to a standard…

The IOC would feel really bad about this, but in their defense, the bribes were exceptionally large.

“If your sentence has five commas and no lists, write new sentences.”

If you want to write a long story that paints a complex portrait of a villain, it is adivisable to first find a villian with some degree of complexity. Former college football player turned cop who likes to rape women ain’t exactly Richard III.