Not if they are part of a pattern of powerful agencies that are not even nominally accountable to voters (the FBI, the CIA, etc) arrogating power for themselves through various means including pressuring/discrediting administrations or influencing elections through leaks. In that case, the precedent is almost…

I think this is sort of a dumb take, but I am way into the Chilli Davis ref, so I’m starring it.

You just fact checked his throwaway jokey metaphor. A+

ok i’ll allow it

Well done, then.

Nixon was famously frightened of how influential Ronnie Reagan was despite being a “nice guy but a dumb bastard” (in Nixon’s words) who gave no fucks about truth/accuracy/how the world actually worked.

Up until the political coverage intensified, I’d only end up on Gizmodo proper if my finger slipped when I was trying to get to Deadspin. Now I check in regularly, not just for the politics/technology/science crossover articles but the other article too. Novak in particular is one of my favorite writers on the…

I don’t think that breakdown is even close to accurate.

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I mean, I also hate to watch young people have the kind of fun I’m completely incapable of having, but in that situation you just roll your eyes and check your phone or something. There’s a fine line between being a mild curmudgeon and a poopy-pantsed dickface and sooner or later grownups need to learn to stay on the…

Norm performed a stand-up set at my small, uptight liberal arts college and I was one of the SGA nerds who got to go pick him up at the airport and drive him to campus. The fifteen minute drive from the airport to campus was one of the funniest 15 minutes of my life. His slurred, off the cuff, sloppy, nonchalant…

I think you’re just being deliberately cheeky, because I’m pretty sure you’re too smart to be so facile obliviously, but just to be clear, there are several different kinds of leaks. There are two types of leaks that always concern me, whether they happen to be helping or hurting causes I support: leaks that come from…

I agree with you down the line, and I’d just like to add that in the comments section of the other post you’re referring to, I saw several people take the line “But if you denounce this then you have to denounce South Park and Family Guy too but no one could ever not like those shows so therefore this is fine.”

Draper is gonna ban you so hard this time tomorrow you’ll be trying to start arguments on Kotaku about cheat codes for NBA Jam.

That’s impressive. I consider myself a remarkably petty bastard, and even I can’t bring myself to click through more than a page or two of a user’s posts on Kinja—and I will basically only do that if I seem to remember the user name saying something racist and/or pro-Cardinals.

I’m pretty sure the only people more cray-cray than soccer fans are cricket fanatics.

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Sorry, jabronis, but I’m calling this now: Cavs are gonna destroy the Warriors in the Finals this year. And you can take that to the bank.