From Paul Carr at NSFWCorp:
single data point about a person I don’t know, have never met, know nothing else about. And yet, using Bruni’s logic, that’s information enough for me to guess at his motivations, impugn his reputation, snipe at his gender and – really – call him whatever names I choose.
For example: Frank Bruni is a lazy, misogynistic sack of dicks – and everything that’s wrong with sadsack male opinion columnists in America.
A day late, but I celebrate Don’t Be A Dick Day every day. At least, I try to.
“Saying no to one thing is saying yes to something else.” I consider that phrase hollow bullshit. It’s so easy to create clever sentences that don’t actually describe our complex existence. It’s harder to consider the underlying frailties of being a person.
Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s something noble in quitting. I’ve always found quitting harder than starting. I can start a thousand new things in a day. I can begin a dozen meaningless and unimportant projects before I even have my first cup of coffee.
Chris Brecheen:
The real antagonist may have been society, but our personification of it was well cast. He had a sort of Christian Bale look about him, if Christian Bale were playing a role of a douchecanoe. Revisionist memory is always suspect, but I’m telling this story, and I’m going to stand by the fact that I thought he looked like a creepy guy long before he started acting like one.
What a jerk.1
When I’m considering saying something via voice or text I try (and often fail) to follow these five guidelines
Erik’s actually one of the nicest people I know. That makes him a great co-host and good guy to chat with. I have no idea why he thinks he has a big mouth. ↩︎
I hold my right to not have my child murdered higher than anyone else’s right to own a gun. I also remember when pious folks were anti-gun.
Two charities that work to make sure guns are treated like weapons and not fishing tackle:
Alliance for Justice
Violence Policy Center (pretty poor attitude towards transparency)
Before you bother logging in to comment or send me an email about communism, marxism or other irrelevant data points, please feel free to go fuck yourself.
Great and extremely raw writing from Rob Delaney. Rob is a comedian and his sense of humor really does it for me.
Fortunately, a tiny part of me recognized my thought process as “crazy.” I knew that if anyone other than me was describing these symptoms I would lovingly handcuff them and take them to the hospital and help the shit out of them, whether they liked it or not.
A boy saved for two years to buy a specific LEGO set. In the meantime, the set is discontinued. Boy can no longer afford the coveted LEGO set. LEGO sends boy the set for his birthday. I will forever buy LEGO products because they hire real humans to do good things.
