Wealth Inequality probably plays a role here. It’s tough for teens get jobs when 20-somethings are competing for jobs at McDonalds. Without those jobs, teens can’t buy stuff, and if you can’t buy stuff all you really can do is sit around and do free stuff like play on your phone or hang out in your friends basement…

Because they still make money. That’s the answer. O’Reilly still has supporters and they still pay to see him and buy his books and listen to his podcast (I assume he has a podcast now).

Funny, I haven’t heard anyone call that a level playing field.

These are just really common pop culture phrases. It would be like saying you own the phrase “one can dream” because you wrote it. Man everyone has used that phrase, no one can own it.

How was it handed to her? People were fighting to keep her from having one, fought her when she had an album, and then killed her career after one song. There was almost a decade of work she put in to get to where she was.

Why would those defenses be invalid?

“But she should be subject to that criticism. It should be an uncomfortable space for a white artist to appropriate black music. It’s only because of her white privilege that Iggy can be in that uncomfortable space but not have it get in the way of her career.”

I’m getting tired of headlines like this, because of course the lawyers are defending their client. It does not mean anything though: Brock Turners lawyers called him a good kid not because he was but because the best defense he could get demands he be cast as not a problem.

Did you know it was actually just melted chocolate? Still gross but WHY WOULD ANYONE MAKE THIS AND WHO CARES THAT IT WAS CHOCOLATE YOU WEIRDOS?!

It’s the Trump Show, baby, and we all eagerly await the finale.

The best political explanation I have heard is that Trump is really, really angry at the Republicans for not getting any legislation to his desk in the first 6 months, and basically setting up “repeal and replace” and then not having ANY ideas. Trump seems to have thought that he would just waltz in and sign whatever…

Instead of filling the crack, couldn’t you just cut out that corner, and weld in a new section that is not compromised? I mean filling the crack with anything but the exact same alloy is going to leave the it open that the crack re-opens, but if you place a new corner in that is structurally sound (re: not-cracked)…

Basically everything?

Jeremy Renner is me in class waiting for the libertarians and the socialists to stop yelling at each other long enough for me to direct a question to our Calculus professor.

So being there 11 years in the litmus test for who is and who is not a New Yorker?

So did black people. Black people owned slaves in America. So did Samori Ture, and Ta Nehsi Coates named his child after him.

So Malcom X was a privileged person then? Because he was pretty racist to people who were not black (and I am not even including white people in that category).

I find it sad really. Women are no less likely to abuse kids, but we associate “predator” with the masculine. Ironically enough, that association hurts women: I have had no shortage of conversations with friends who have children where mom is now picking up the kids from daycare and school because dad was…

There has been a lot of grumbling in the markets that tech is out of new ideas. There hasn’t been a big IPO in years, and the few that approached big just ended up dying or becoming irrelevant.

Before anybody embraces Dahl as a hero of social justice, it bears noting that he unfortunately also said some seriously anti-Semitic shit.