'Both Sad and Hilarious': When Racists Use Emoticons
A commenter finds that white supremacists using emoticons can be both repulsive and morbidly funny.
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Today, Jen Doll declared 2012 the year of the exclamation point. Our commenters totally agreed!
A commenter finds that white supremacists using emoticons can be both repulsive and morbidly funny.
Rebecca Greenfield showed why cable companies should be less worried about cord-cutters than cord-nevers. One of our commenters explains why he'd never pay for cable.
Author Jared Diamond recently claimed that Mitt Romney misread Guns, Germs and Steel. The situation reminded one commenter of Dan Quayle's supposed interpretation of a Robert Redford film.
Today, Serena Dai took a look at the flight paths some corpses take to reach their final resting places. One of our commenters got to wondering if the dead have to go through the same airport security measures as the rest of us.
Serena Dai's interactive feature on Huma Abedin's alleged "connections" to the Muslim Brotherhood got commenters wondering about all the flimsy connections one can draw between unrelated people.
Today, Adam Martin took a look at Newark Mayor Cory Booker's future policial ambitions. A name familiar to anyone who's hunted for an apartment in the last few years turned up in the comments section.
Rich Kids of Instagram got lots of people talking about about self-presentation and socioeconomic status on social media. One commenter agreed with Rebecca Greenfield's take on the issue.
Jen Doll's take on hate reading books struck a nerve with many of our readers. One commenter walked us through the logic behind her masochistic tendency to stick it out with books that bring her no joy.
As journalists, we're naturally interested in what the Associated Press' new social media guidelines have to say about "liking" on Facebook. It turns out our readers are, too.
As we noted today, even the Muslim Brotherhood finds Michele Bachmann's suggestion that Huma Abedin is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood preposterous. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, one commenter suspected the organization of covering up their Abedin connection.
Elspeth Reeve's post about Mitt Romney's post-retroactive retirement activities featured a photo from one of the candidate's campaign stops. One commenter noticed that a man in the background looked less than captivated by Romney's speech.
Richard Lawson's post on the Emmy nominations had some of our commenters dreaming up absurd award categories. Who would you nominate for "Best Scowl in a Comedy Series?"
Today's post about Samuel Williams, the 71-year-old man who fired upon two robbers fleeing from an Internet cafe in Florida, solicited a pretty informative comment.
The question of having it all cropped up yet again in the comments on today's post about newly appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. She just announced that she's pregnant, which has some people wondering how she'll balance work and family.
Our piece on a recent skirmish in the age-old breastfeeding wars struck a nerve with many of our readers. One commenter provided some personal perspective on the issue.
Our probing look at the inner workings of the Park Slope Food Coop left commenter k___bee with such an icky taste in her mouth that she even pondered jumping ship for a chain store.
Following reports that hackers got 453,000 Yahoo passwords, Rebecca Greenfield noted that "dumb" passwords are sometimes smarter than overly complicated ones. Our commenters had a few thoughts of their own about safeguarding your online presence.
Jen Doll's piece on bosses getting wise to employees who "work" from home stirred up some debate today. One commenter pointed out that it isn't all that hard to hold people accountable for work done off-site.
A number of commenters were miffed by the news that a yoga instructor was recently fired for her no-phones-during-class policy. It's not only inconsiderate, they argued, it's defeating the whole purpose—how do you expect to clear your mind and cleanse your body while manically checking your inbox?
Adam Martin's post today on the cheating scandal at New York's Stuyvesant High School prompted one of our commenters to reminisce about taking the same tests.
The video of Chris Christie yelling at a guy on a boardwalk at the Jersey Shore showed the New Jersey governor in a less than flattering light, but as one incisive commenter points out, it's the light that usually reveals a person's true self.
The comment we liked on Dashiell Bennett's reporting of the amazing San Diego fireworks debacle wasn't one of the many, many premature ejaculation jokes, lame budget comparisons, or echoes of "dude that would have been so cool."
Dashiell Bennett's story about the lawmaker who pressed the wrong button to legalize fracking in North Carolina does suggest a simple fix needed in the voting system.
After Anderson Cooper's perhaps-not-so-shocking announcement earlier in the day Richard Lawson wondered if the anchor had orchestrated his coming out in the "right way."
Jen Doll's books column today elicited a discussion of e-books among some readers.
With the big news out of the Supreme Court today it's not surprising that debates raged in our comments section.
Jen Doll's post on Internet niceness was sure to bring out the haters.
As The Atlantic Wire's Connor Simpson explained, Ann Curry's exit from The Today Show can be explained by her lack of chemistry with co-host Matt Lauer.
Our post on Egypt's military takeover brought out one fatalistic view of the Arab Spring.
One commenter has seconded our plea for a little more decorum in discussing Lindsay Lohan following the breaking non-news that the actress was a wee bit tired today.
Our post on keeping kids safe on Facebook inspired some interesting discussions on parenting in the comments.
The Atlantic Wire's Richard Lawson put forward several theories Tuesday for the American television watcher's recent fit of anglophilia, but none of them were quite so bluntly stated as the theory of our featured commenter, HFgm: British TV is better.
Naturally, John Hudson's post about Ron Paul supporters furious over Rand Paul's endorsement of Mitt Romney drew many Ron Paul-supporting comments.
The news that a group of scientists think the earth may have reached a "tipping point" beyond which the climate becomes inhospitable to human life and there's nothing we can do to stop it, is pretty scary stuff, unless you have the right attitude.
It's one thing to observe that the app-makers are running out of ideas, as Rebecca Greenfield did on Wednesday, but it's a whole new level of mean to compare all of online to a Dilbert cartoon.
We did not choose our featured comment today because it was overly pithy or insightful, but because it made a point that's worth more discussion.
The cranky comments section of Rebecca Greenfield's post on Hollywood's beef with Silicon Valley started to reflect the post itself, though with the notable absence of anybody defending Hollywood or its representative, Ari Emanuel.
Mitt Romney's painless decision to release his birth certificate in response to rumors that he might be a unicorn has given those who love to hate birthers ample opportunity to riff on their flaws.
Our readers love having an incisive discussion about Mad Men after reading Jen Doll's incisive analysis of the show, and Tuesday's was particularly sharp.
Mark Zuckerberg still has at least one fan after that fiasco of an IPO, but it has nothing to do with his business maneuverings.
It's true: Our little gimmicks to bring in readers pack far less bang than The Daily Caller's plan to give out a gun a week until election day.
A couple of commenters touched on a good point tangential to Jen Doll's No Sympathy For the Singles, but we're only featuring the one that taught us a new word.
In this time of big Facebook headlines, today's commenter borrowed wisdom from the movie The Social Network to address another set of fighting tech entrepreneurs.
The death of Donna Summer touched a lot of people, many of them our readers, and reminded us of a bygone era not just of musical genre but of technology.
Sometimes the pictures just don't match the words, as with today's breathless reporting of a possible run on Greek banks accompanied by photos of ATM users calmly standing in line.
Nothing has been cut and dry in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, especially Strauss-Kahn's claim his encounter with Nafissatou Diallo was entirely consensual and he was set up, and at this point our readers readily mock suggestions his version could be the truth.
Covering Ron Paul just wouldn't be the same without the (sometimes vociferous) input from readers loyal to him.
Sometimes it's the simple points that we need to be reminded of most, which commenters demonstrated in their responses to Jen Doll's post on that "attachment child" featured Friday morning on The Today Show.
Nothing gets commenters going like a TSA outrage story: Responses to Alex Abad-Santos' post about an 18-month-old who made the no-fly list ranged from snarky to serious, but the two that made us snort imagined the baby as an actual terrorist.
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