I believe that a portion of the founders are reasonable peep who didn't start with malicious intent, but I think it can't be denied that a large portion (if not a majority) of the people who joined the movement were prejudiced, unpleasant people (at least based on the Puppy comments I've read), and when you have that…

It's ultimately all fan voted, by people who either have tickets to attend the convention or paid for supporting memberships. The "Board" could disqualify something that didn't really belong in a category, but other than that couldn't alter the final results unless they broke their code of ethics.

I don't know if they would say they like it, but the Puppy leaders left it off their slate of nominees, so they clearly don't love it. But I would guess the gender/identity themes are a turn off for them.

I don't blame the normal voters too much for the way they went, but I do think voting for so many No Awards was a poor choice. I haven't gone through all the nominated work, but I hear from many analysts who I trust (and George R.R. Martin himself) that many of the Puppy Slate nominees were good creators worthy of a…

As someone who desperately hoped for Jon Huntsman to miraculously get the Republican nomination in 2012 so there could at least be a reasonable policy debate on the national stage, it really pisses me of in a weird way when people try to say that Kaisch is "just Jon Huntsman 2.0." Governor Kaisch, you're no Jon…

"Disqus fixes something that wasn't working right; Shocks World."

As the OP, I should clarify that there were no moderation shenanigans involved here…I just posted the comments, than about a minute later thought about it and went "Eh, that was kinda a dumb joke, might as well delete it, probably no one has seen it yet anyway." I just do that sometimes. But it turned out it had been…

The AV Club is going to a nice farm upstate, where it'll a lot of room to snark and make references and Great Job! Internet.

It's ratings aren't very good…but they are above average for its timeslot on Friday, and fairly consistent. So ABC could cancel it at any time without looking crazy, but they don't have much incentive to do so either.

And now it's spelled "The Bearstuin Bears"!

You could get in trouble for posting on Twitter a joke someone else made on Twitter, but if you take a joke from Twitter and post it on Instragam there's not really anything Twitter can do.

This person is claiming to Fatman/Songbird/BraveLittleToker, a single person who has become a recurring troll here. Their style has been to create a new account, act normal-ish for a period and become accepted into the community, then have essentially a massive meltdown. In the past they've spammed articles, posted…

I'd imagine not actually being one of the other eight men on stage was something of an obstacle to Pataki objecting to the abortion comments.

I always think he's dead, than like once a year find out he isn't, and automatically forget apparently. I even got sad thinking about it when I relatively recently watch a movie of his. On the plus side, my mood always improves so much whenever I get the reminder.

Clearly they took a "Divide and Conquer" approach to parenting.

This is just the sort of thing I was a Frey of.

This feels like a clear set up for a Game of Thrones joke, but I won't bite.

I think I will watch The Nightly Show tonight in the hopes that it has improved in the months since I sampled it and the possibility of some good GOP debate mockery.

This ep brought back not so fund memories of the beast of a woman who came to give a sex talk at my Elementary School in 4th and 5th grade. It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my childhood when she singled me out for accidentally sneezing into my hands at one point, and made me go up to get sanitizer from…

I guess you could say they would make a non-existent contribution to the chat.