So to be bitchy, we’re not gonna comment on Wikileaks outing a gay Saudi (who could be killed) or the teenage rape victims (who’ve gone through a heinous experience only compounded by publicity) because that was Denton’s schtick and we’re following it...??

Didn’t you know that us queers are trending right now?

If she brings her Sofia Coppola/Lars Von Trier pedigree with her, Dunst will make a fantastic film.

He apparently joined in, soo...

I’ve never figured out if the pink blob on a Diglett is an open mouth or a massive nose. So my brain switches back and forth.

Sorry we can’t be bothered with a sport you all invented but also suck at.

The Bide abides.

I thought Marines were tough and uncomplaining. Huh.

Barney Frank would be a surprising choice. Hmmm....

Anybody who doesn’t approve of this is a communist.

You’re right. Plane travel has gotten slower, but remains otherwise unchanged. Cars have gotten faster, there are more of them, and we’re driving much more. That’s why we have seatbelts.

Clarity, maybe?

Sure. But nothing about the nature and safety of plane travel has changed since the sixties. D B Cooper anyone?

We also had slower cars.

To be fair, the dead don’t generally try to get their stolen civil rights back.

WAR IS PEACE

Oh that’s infuriating. I’m glad my department takes women’s writing and feminist theory seriously—but there are still people that I will not share a classroom with for this exact reason.

Words can have multiple meanings, but because the connection between word and meaning is arbitrary, so is the boundary of the meanings—for instance, the distinction between blue and green doesn’t exist in every language. Would that therefore require you to conclude that green and blue are actually synonyms, given that…

You’re still coming against the object/language dichotomy. An open-faced sandwich is an object described in its relation to a second object—that is, it is like a sandwich, but because it is only like it, it cannot be it. In the same sense, a rice wine is not a wine, a horseless carriage isn’t a carriage, and a dwarf…

Well, is a failed object the same as a successful one? I’d say that a window that was broken during installation was never actually a window. So no.