You really don’t seem to understand that people are not their genital configuration, and that genital configuration itself is a range with most people towards one end or the other of a spectrum, but with people in various densities at various positions on that spectrum. That’s entirely different from how people… Read more

...You presented an argument and then undermined it beautifully, coming directly around to my point of view by the end of your response. That’s actually pretty awesome. No sarcasm, I really think that’s cool. It shows people can agree on conclusions even if they don’t seem to be working from the same set of facts.… Read more

Let me give you more attention than you deserve: Read more

Hey, Abe, remember that corporate governance reform you promised us when you got reelected? Read more

It’s JHS, second year. Eighth graders. But that’s really missing the point. There’s raging hormones, and there’s frank admission of burgeoning sexuality, but that’s part of the point of the film. It’s not supposed to be puerile or pornographic. Somai Shinji, the director, is sometimes hailed as the John Hughes of… Read more

Turn on subs/cc. Read more

I’d say “My Pleasure” but actually, it fucking sucked. On my way home early from teaching JHS, my school bag handle snapped and my umbrella LITERALLY got ripped to shreds due to the winds.

When I feel like I've got $2-300 lying around, I'll see what I can find. Read more

lol wut, where is this from? Read more

It depends, is the person a photo-journalist whose training and experience should produce incredible shots? No, I wouldn’t be. Is the person pretty much new to photo-journalism and is otherwise known for her writing? I’d be satisfied and indeed patient. One of the reasons Jalopnik is what is has to do with the fact… Read more

I’m from a print journalism background with some experience in Radio-TV Broadcasting. I have no training as a photo journalist, and even after 10 years in and out of journalism, I haven’t had very much experience at all. I’m still learning. Read more

I think as writers on the site we also should have the ability, from time to time, to have silly fun. I promise you, that’s all I thought that the TK piece was. There was no policy discussion, and I didn’t make any Mike Pence jokes until a commenter started a comment string I found amusing. Read more

Well, frankly, you succeeded in annoying me. If you were a troll (which you are not), I’d ignore you. But dammit, you’re, by your own admission and by my experiences of you, a long-time reader. I’m not going to tip-toe around your criticism. I’ll confront it in a dialogue, because you matter to me. Read more

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Hey Justin, keep the politics off Jalopnik! Where’s your condemnation of Hillary Clinton? Your Bernie Sanders jokes? Your Johnson Er something. Your Jill Beer Stein puns? Read more

Yes. You could even join in. Alas, I never seemed to be around at the right time. Think I went back three times, catching only like the very end of it each time.

That’s the kind of stuff that is, honestly, the hardest to fix. When the big stuff breaks out, and we’re all shocked about it, it’s only because thousands of tiny, subtle interactions led to that being possible in the first place. Whether it is gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability,… Read more

It’s the job. I got worse on Jez, which I have mentioned. Not from actual Jezzies, of course, but from those who would seek to have sites like Jezebel shut down. Rape and murder threats, rape gifs and guro porn, etc. Read more

No, that particular comment was specifically in reference to the “Police will laugh at you” comment. Which I found hard to believe, because I can’t imagine a police officer laughing at me when I’m being serious. I said, I guess that means I’m “too Japanese” because as I look back all of my police interactions have… Read more

Alas, I cannot. My dad passed in November of ‘87. Read more