In Mala Fide

Holy mother of Moses, there were a lot of good comments in October. The October 2009 Comment of the Month is a tie between last month’s winner, Doug1, who argues against date rape: The whole effort to make intoxication sex rape at the girls option after the fact is an abomination and must be thoroughly and vehemently [...]

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) is the leper of English Romantic literature. His life was short and tumultuous, defined by his eccentric, scandalous behavior. While his peers Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are still read widely today, Byron’s work has been forgotten outside of the echo chamber that is university humanities departments. [...]

I was going to write a lighter post for this Friday, but this post by Conor Friedersdorf (hat tip: Traveller) attacking the neg sent me over the edge: The community of men who study picking up women — let’s call them “players” — are unified by a belief that dating is a “game,” and that [...]