I am not a reporter. I am also a vindictive, grudge-carrying SOB. So while I understand practically why a practicing journalist would choose to handle this differently, if I were a journalist I think I would have to fight very hard against the impulse to go scorched-earth.

Hard to say. Journalists, ethically speaking, are taught in college (assuming their journalism teachers and curriculum were similar to those I encountered while majoring in that bullshit) to protect anonymous sources at all costs... because if you snitch them out, you’re not just burning and losing THAT source; you’re…

I can’t speak for anyone else but I’d have to take it on a case-by-case basis. A lot rests on how good the source has been in the past, how much I’ll need them in the future, how important the false info was, etc.

Eh. This is one issue where I diverge greatly from feminists on, probably due to my ethnicity. As a black man in America, I just can’t be so dismissive of the the existence of false allegations of rape and the impact that they have when they occur. Many an African-American man in the early-mid 20th century ended up…

I hope one of them gets gored by Peter King.

(1) I am, nominally, a Patriots fan.

“It was mostly republished by right-of-center publications like the New York Post and Fox News, with little interest from the liberal media”

Here’s the ridiculous thing: they had the cellphones of the two guys they (the league) were accusing of tampering the balls pursuant to this “scheme”.

We’re emphatically not trying to help him. We despise him. But I tried to make this article about Cecil and about trophy hunting, more than about this specific idiot, whose name is already everywhere on the internet.

Come on, man. We’re not protecting him. There’s no meaningful way in which this guy is protected by our leaving his name out of the text of this article—particularly since his name is printed in the Telegraph article we linked to at the top and bottom of the post. We left it out because we didn’t want it in the…

I’m a hunter, and I know I always feel the proudest when I use bait to lure an animal that I have no intention of eating and that has become acclimated to being in the presence of people (which removes any sport in it) nominally outside a protected area for the sole purpose of counteracting the shame of my shockingly…

90%? I’d peg it closer to 99%. The only people that wanted the Olympics here were the people that were going to profit off of it somehow.

“it’s totally fiscally responsible, now sign this paper that says you’ll pick up the tab on all the cost over-runs, which is essentially a blank check made out to the IOC....”

Sorry we weren’t interested in being scammed, USOC. Maybe you’ll have better luck stealing money and land from Los Angeles?

These massive block quotes of what he said are completely out of context.

Not that it’s terribly important, but for some cultural context: for middle-class Torontonians, going up north to cottage country is a yearly ritual in summer. If your family doesn’t have a cottage, it’s likely that you’ll know someone who does. For a lot of kids, visiting friends at their cottages represents, for…

“We’re going to celebrate his life, not the death and other issues.”

That story is making my blood pressure rise, fucking entitled parents are the worrrrrrst.

That’s really the key here: are the parents making an effort?

“Well, that’s just the worst way ever to lose a perfect game.” - Nats’ Announcer