Is it possible to be a campus anti-rape agitator and have a satisfying hookup lifestyle at the same time? Survey sez:

She animatedly tells a story about a recent Tinder rendezvous: “One time, I agreed to meet with this guy at 8 or 9 at night. Before we met, I said to him, ‘This is the work I do, I know the chief of police ... so, don't try and get creepy; I know all my rights.’ And five minutes later, he was like, ‘Actually, I'm really not OK with how you just assume I'm a bad guy. And I get very bad vibes from that, so we shouldn't hang out anymore.’”

“I was in a rage. He was a total fuckboy about consent,” she said.

Observation: I'm pretty sure he understood consent. What you don't understand, deer sweet little special snowflake is that he chose to withdraw any consent he might have given you.

Regrettably, you violated my airspace.

Someone is a sharp dad.

He doled out a note with attached presents and a description of his kid's costume so that the person handing out goodies could give the kid a present instead.

And not make demands on the neighbors for approved treats.

I would like to have a word with you about white privilege.

It appears that a building has at least partially collapsed in midtown Manhattan. Reports are still sketchy.

Apparently Mr. Nobel Peace Prize has decided to put boots on the ground in Syria.

Well, until they're involved in a firefight, in which case it will have been SecDef's call. I'll turn to Robert Heinlein:

The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the "Fourth"), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it "The Bug War" if we call it anything, which we usually don't and in any case the historians date the beginning of "war" after the time I joined my first outfit and ship. Everything up to then and still later were "incidents," "patrols," or "police actions." However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war."

IRA Darth Aggie; that is one great father and great neighbor!

I wouldn't be surprised if many of his neighbors from now on buy their own little presents to give to his son.