Can we talk about how badly-written the un-redacted parts of that email are?

Someone can be in favour of democracy and think voters can make bad decisions.

The hunters who contribute meaningfully to conservation are not generally those who stage trophy hunts of endangered species.

What turned you on to this story? What was the process or the inspiration?

Tax-exempt mega churches my friend!

There’s not really any reason to have a different reaction to hearing someone is really into owning guns than to hearing someone is a pedophile. They’re both threats to children who need to be contained.

It’s the opposite, I think. If your estimate of the asshole-quotient in your life is edging up towards 100%, that increases the risk that you’re the asshole.

“She unseated Republican James Buchanan... and Libertarian Alison Foxall.” 
She unseated two people at once? Dang, 2v1 pvp.

Yes, that’s how I read it. The author interviewed seemed to be making a different point, that the tag was used to dispute that Rodgers was actually a misogynist; either I didn’t properly understand what she was saying, or I think it’s an argument that needs to be unpacked more. Because to me it seemed like the…

That’s what I remember. I was a bit confused that she interpreted #notallmen as sympathy for Rodgers rather than attempting to distance one’s self from him, but it’s possible the argument is too complex to explain briefly in an interview answer.

I mean, you’re right that everything is heading in a bad direction, but it’s not as though Netflix chose to shrink their library in order to make bad movies. The bad movies are, rather, an attempt to cope with a shrinking library - caused by all the content owners realizing how much money they were leaving on the…

Wasn’t this the plot to *The Death of Superman*?

Fantastic, thanks. A refreshing corrective for those of us who know both too-much and too-little about the US.

Yeah, the STEM students were usually the one who wanted to sell the union out up here too, which doesn’t make any sense, since in terms of grant dollars their labour is producing a much larger surplus for their supervisors - and their supervisors have a much stronger perverse incentive to churn through underpaid…

Only in the USA would someone rush to blame workers for getting sick when their jobs force them to choose between nursing their illness and feeding their family.

Joan Osborne has to be the worst-served artist by their one hit. Almost any of her other songs are better than “One of Us” (which is not that bad, really).

I’ll pick “St. Teresa”:

Starring for justice, obviously, not starring the horrible thing that happened to you.

Why wouldn’t more money solve problems with service caused by budget cuts? How is taking apples out of a bucket not a radical action, but putting apples back into the same bucket is a radical action?

I mean, you’re not making a very solid case for why we don’t have a strong shared interest in restraining you.

Given how much electricity (and correspondingly, fossil fuels!) are being sunk into mining this bullshit, it’s worse than simply being nothing. It’s liquid-fucking-climate-change. You don’t get hamburgers out of it. It can’t drive you anywhere.