A reader writes: Dude. I mean … I get it. You are independent now and can do the blog that you want, but for those of us reading at work, having a random close-up of a scrotum is problematic. I read in an RSS reader and it just shows up with no warning. Luckily, this time … Continue reading Whence The Scrotum? Ctd
Liam Drew gropes for a better understanding of the evolutionary reason for external testicles, unsatisfied by the widely-cited “cooling hypothesis”: Heat disrupts sperm production so effectively that biology textbooks and medical tracts alike give cooling as the reason for the scrotum. The problem is many biologists who seriously think about animal evolution are unhappy with … Continue reading Whence The Scrotum?
The Great Scrotum Debate continued. I realized that I was out of touch, not realizing how sexual harassment law truly makes this blog’s webby visual mindset a liability to our readers. No more foreskin, then, but just a little vaginal mucus. We defended your lazy asses while Greenwald kicked the Washington Post’s. Oh, and reasons … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
Whence the scrotum, we asked? And for various reasons, this photograph was more objectionable in offices than this one. But at least one reader laughed out loud. There was another completely innocent prisoner who killed himself in GTMO (I couldn’t blame him) as Obama picked an enabler of torture to be the head of the … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
Yesterday we made one final bleg requesting “your favorite moment of Dishness” – and you delivered in spades, as you always do. It’s hard to disagree with this reader’s pick: Your wedding, plain and simple. The photos, the setting, the dogs, the look in your faces: I’ve been reading you for 10+ years and you kept me looking forward and to … Continue reading Your Moments Of Dishness
by Chris Bodenner Looking back at 2014, Felix Salmon runs through all the high revenue and venture capital numbers of new media companies like Buzzfeed, Vice, and Vox: The small but self-sustaining bloggy site is a thing of the past: if you’re not getting 20-30 million unique visitors every month, and don’t aspire to such heights, then you’re … Continue reading Bigger, But Better?
That’s what you’re seeing: The photographer Ingrid Berthon Moine is taken with testicles, both figuratively and physiologically; turning to the anatomically accurate statues of Classical Greece for her project Marbles, she focuses her lens on representations of the male sex organ. Isolated from the rest of the statues, the male sex organs take on new meanings, their textured … Continue reading Marble Marbles
Not long after Jon Hamm’s beard, we present Critique My Dick Pic. It is, as Katie J.M. Baker puts it, “exactly what it sounds like” – so don’t click if you’re worried about nannying corporate overlords. My main objection, to be honest, is using “critique” as a verb. From the mission statement: this is a tumblr with … Continue reading Tumblr Of The Day
But then again, shirtless Geraldo is a lot more offensive than a pair of Wiki-balls.
One of countless complaints from the in-tray: I am surprised and disappointed by your dismissiveness of the apparently widespread concern among the Dish community about the scrotum-shot as it relates to workplace propriety. The nannyism of corporate America is clearly not the issue and your mention of it effectively neutralized the “I’m sorry” that preceded … Continue reading Dissents Of The Day
