No, of course not. We would rather he either run as an independent, present himself honestly, and then drop from the race if it became clear that he’d be spoiler OR actually become a contributing member to the Democratic party.

There’s no actual difference in your “ftfy” change.

It’s on topic, though. This is all connected.

Like with these other open secrets, Taibbi’s grossness is not new news. He’s been on my personal do not read list since the last time his Russian writings were publicized. There’s a lot going on so fast, it’s hard to keep track. Who currently employs him?

Wasn’t that part of their defense?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson???? I’m scared to click. :(

Also, people have bills to pay! Her career suffered, and she knew it would. She probably had therapy bills to pay. There’s a reason we have a civil court system as well as a criminal court system!

I feel like I need to find Gawker threads and go back and learn about whose names are going to come up next. I don’t follow celebrity gossip, so a lot of this is shocking. I just want Alexis Denisof, James Marsters, and Patrick Stewart to be fine people.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal lines in the sand for art and artist. I believe strongly in separating art from the artist because I think there’s a lot of amazing art created by crap people. But I also believe strongly in not enabling power and wealth of crap people when I can avoid it.

But also apparently, why they shouldn’t go into men’s restrooms.

The difference seems like a few letters in the alphabet to me. Not what i’d call “big”.

I hate comment sections and Twitter and other social media with a firey passion. But this is I think the illustration of the positive side and why people have hope for them. Survivor’s voices can’t be squelched. There are no gatekeepers anymore, and there are enough of us who want to listen to what survivors have to…

Yep, that’s exactly what happened to me. And I skipped the first Bobby Finger article about it, too, so it was the constant updating about it that got me curious enough to click.

“Ready for It” has already grown on me. I like the video, too, but I don’t understand how the video connects to the song. I’m also not sure I…

And of course, the wide-eyed innocence about their own culpability in the cycle. If they really dislike Taylor Swift, they should simply ignore her. This type of thing really is a no-press-is-bad-press because all of the clicks translate.

I do often wonder how much of the male dominance of the Nobel prize is because of cases like hers, where the awards committee simply didn’t want to acknowledge the woman’s work. Off the top of my head, I can think of three examples (including this one) of cases where men alone received the Nobel for work that only…

It’s okay. I’ve had to do it for other people. Better to know the truth.

I did not know about this. :(

Yeah, that was what I was thinking through all of this. You know, the opposition had no thought of supporting either her or the baby they planned to make her bear (and what? raise in a shelter? raise in a country that may have been unsafe for her?)

Again: “be all and end all of education”... that phrase is important if you’re going to ignore the fact that the statement was rhetorical.

Progressives are never going to call for strict separation of public spaces because that is incompatible with gender egalitarianism. It’s also unnecessary. Strict separation doesn’t solve sexual harassment or abuse (I would argue it makes it much, much worse).

Raising boys and girls to play together and value each…