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Tank is banished to the porch in moving day.

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For this edition of Wine Wednesday, we have a tip for your outdoor wine drinking when the weather gets warmer! Instead of using regular ice cubes to cool your wine, you can freeze a tray of wine ice cubes. This will keep your wine from getting watered down while cooling it down at the same time.
Which Save Me, San Francisco wine would you like to make into ice cubes?

Brilliant.

For this edition of Wine Wednesday, we have a tip for your outdoor wine drinking when the weather gets warmer! Instead of using regular ice cubes to cool your wine, you can freeze a tray of wine ice cubes. This will keep your wine from getting watered down while cooling it down at the same time.

Which Save Me, San Francisco wine would you like to make into ice cubes?

Brilliant.

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Guys, please don’t text and drive. Please. Nothing is THAT important that you can’t wait until you get where you’re going. And if it can’t wait, please, please pull over.

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nevver:

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so true.

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Truth delivered with my dinner tonight. #thankslumyen

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For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as registered sex offenders, a good first step is not to rape unconscious women, no matter how good your grades are. Regardless of the strength of your GPA (weighted or unweighted), if you commit rape, there is a possibility you may someday be convicted of a sex crime. This is because of your decision to commit a sex crime instead of going for a walk, or reading a book by Cormac McCarthy. Your ability to perform calculus or play football is generally not taken into consideration in a court of law. Should you prefer to be known as “Good student and excellent football player Trent Mays” rather than “Convicted sex offender Trent Mays,” try stressing the studying and tackling and giving the sex crimes a miss altogether.

—Mallory Ortberg, on Gawker

Mallory Ortberg, laying waste to fools on GAWKER, today, regarding CNN’s offensively lovey-dovey coverage of the two high school football stars who were convicted on Sunday of sexually assaulting a blacked-out drunk 16 year old girl from a neighboring town at a party, and then sharing pictures of her on the internet.

More details HERE.

I think it’s reasonable to say that, given the football culture of Steubenville, OH and the notorious difficulty of proving sexual assault even when the victim REMEMBERS WHAT HAPPENED, it is likely that what these jocks did to this other human would have become simply a dark part of Steubenville high school folklore, were it not for the digital trail of photos, tweets, and texts that the bystanders and assaulters themselves put out into the world.

SO THANK YOU, NERDS, FOR INVENTING SOCIAL MEDIA.

And thank you, Mallory and Manhattan snark-media for reminding some people—including CNN, apparently—what personal responsibility actually means.

That is all.

(via areasofmyexpertise)

Well said all around.