Misogyny doesn’t actually matter.

Why, WHY can we not actually, in fact, solve international problems this way?

/douchey

It’s dark, shady tactics that made Google Plus the world-conquering force that it is today.

I guess I just don’t agree; having this sort of thing becomes the political equivalent of Chekhov’s Gun: The riot control vehicle that is purchased at time point X will in fact be used against actual people at time point Y.

You’re Never Weird on the Internet

You’re Never Weird on the Internet

I know someone who was in a grad students’ knitting club. They were getting their physics PhD, everyone else was in humanities. They got a *lot* more socks and sweaters finished since they could just set their instruments and then record the time-points every hour or so whereas the chumps in English and history had to…

Keyser Soze made it up.

I joked that if you locked someone in a windowless, soundproof room for several months and their only source for information about the outside world was printed-out stories from The Onion slipped under the door, they would be objectively better-informed about the world than many people on the outside.

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Eh. What is it about this lineup of in-house op-ed talent that says looking elsewhere isn’t at least the beginnings of a good idea?

But What About Us Brain-Dead Slobs?

No. I don’t consider this issue to be particularly substantive and don’t feel any obligation to engage it at a higher level.

Where do they keep the original “General Lee” car from the Dukes of Hazzard? Put the statues next to that, just to drive home, “These things are all exactly as cornpone as each other.”

Good! Don’t! Neither go to graduate school for international relations (nor about 30 other things) nor, frankly, go to work for the State department. You’ll just end up a cog enacting policies that were frozen in place 20-30 years ago. (“Oh that’s cute: You think we’re going to cut off military aid to Israel just…

Are these bursts fast enough to contain 140 characters or less?

He might have at least deserved points for brutal honesty, but after the police shot that Australian woman, he’s not even cynically correct anymore.

Liar: David Crosby has NEVER eaten anything plant-based. There are no plants in him; never was, never will be.

Seriously, this sort of shit should give universities and/or their major donors pause: Other than like science and medicine, if you want something to institutionally go to shit, there’s no better method than to establish a graduate school to teach it at an ‘advanced’ level.

Good trilogy? But wait, I thought there were only 2 Ewok Adventures movies?

Good trilogy? But wait, I thought there were only 2 Ewok Adventures movies?