His grammar always confused me. He went through Phillips Academy, Yale, and Harvard, and while not a supergenius he is not a stupid man (uncurious, unethical, and arrogant, but not stupid).

“Lets also not forget that it has been general practice historically for presidents not to appoint a supreme court justice in their final year but leave that decision effectively to the voters by letting their successor make the appointment,”

The second Obama looks like he’s going to make a recess appointment the Senate will come out of recess. And Obama is constrained politically from making one now; if he doesn’t at least attempt to nominate someone for Senate approval, the Dems will take a hit in the election.

“I’d like to believe this is possible. Not even necessarily because I’m optimistic about politics, but because, at the very least, neither side has much to gain by prolonging this fight.”

This is Jezebel. Everything bad that happens has to have a villain.

Yep, that’s just when I stopped reading comics — when half of Marvel’s lineup was about Wolverine, comics were constantly restarted as Foil-Embossed Variant Issue One!!!! and there was a neverending stream of bepouched, begunned Grizzled Futuristic Combat Veterans popping out of the woodwork.

Yep, and being wrong a lot + the fact that she took 100,000 words to say what could have been said in 10 + her seeming inability to show the slightest humility or self-criticism did not endear her to me, though for some reason a lot of posters here loved her.

Oh.

Pointless squabbling with another commenter; I can’t even remember all the details, but it wasn’t even anything aimed at a writer. My prior bannings were usually done on Lindy West stories, probably because I committed the unpardonable sin of disagreeing with Lindy West on something, but after she left my last screen…

Why, because of the sexual harassment? I mean, it goes on in the most non-Westernized countries in the Middle East, too.

Is the black/grey system blog-specific? I thought it changed based on whether the specific Gawker blog was following you or not. I know banning does; the passive-aggressive Jezebel banning may stop my posts from showing up here, but on other Gawker sites they can be seen.

Steinem pulled a similar kind of stunt against Obama supporters back in 2008. Anyway after her painfully ridiculous North Korea photo op I don’t place much stock in anything she says anymore.

The Vanity Fair piece is written from Rutherford’s point of view and still shows her unsympathetically. She knowingly violated an agreement she made in Monaco because she thought she could get away with it; she tried to deny access to the father permanently.

“Are they pretending Lindsay didn’t have substance abuse issues?”

“So is jez ever going to run articles from or about low income or non white mothers or nah?”

More to the point, comparing it to the 2009 BLS figures on wage gaps, it’s inaccurate; I would be curious as to who conducted their study.

“Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest, that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar, and then turn around and give them the keys to their car, invite them to move in, give them a credit card, and they’re surprised one day when their car is…

You’d also think Daniels’ lawyers would point out that the fact that Penn wasn’t charged actually goes to what Daniels was saying — that white men get away with this kind of thing, but black men are much less likely to.

Even then I think it’s counterproductive. If you want to poke fun at outrageous behavior, the most effective rhetorical device in my opinion is the occasional subtle joke — make the reader proud that he/she caught it.

“Penn and his lawyers are tasked with proving that Daniels’ comments about the actor were made with malicious intent, and that Daniels knew they weren’t true prior.”