Add in a healthy dose of Yinzer racism so it’s always the black guy’s fault when Ben’s injured mallard of a pass in the wrong direction gets picked and you’ll have the reason my liver currently hurts. 

I just had to spend the weekend with a Rand-loving relative and it was painful. I really cannot understand the people that look at reality, look at those books, and see any sort of connection. 

This was my takeaway too. “These dummies are too dumb to understand” is not exactly stellar outreach. 

The Steeler fan will tell you “that’s just tackling” as the Bengal bleeds out but “that’s a horsecollar” if someone breathes near their WR. 

I also went to school in Buffalo and, as a non-fan, love the Bills roller coaster. There’s a period after hope of the resurgent dynasty dies out where the flame flickers a little and they start to be convinced that this maybe is the year after all, only to be totally crushed. It’s my candy. 

I agree. They almost had that spot last year and would be in the running for 7-9 again this year if they didn’t routinely shoot themselves in the foot. 

I started to live with Steelers fans. Killed any enthusiasm I had for the NFL pretty quickly.

I watched some of his match, but he was overshadowed in Rio by his opponent’s see-through shorts and budgie smugglers. 

The “constructive discharge” language sounds like he’s trying to get lawyer-y.

The draft of Mace had to be a plan to shuffle her rights off to someone else after the ongoing Aussie season ends and she comes home to the US. Or so I have to think because otherwise it’s a level of incompetence beyond the pale. (By which I am not referring to Lavelle.)

I’ve had older family members come to me with “I saw in the paper (something about my government job.)” They didn’t see it in the paper--they saw the online comment section where we’re regularly accused of massive fraud, sex crimes, Satanism and then some more fraud--but they don’t have the capacity to understand that…

I worked in various legal aid offices for 15 years. I don’t have anything truly witty or pithy to comment, other than I appreciate this coverage. The American public likes this “welfare to work” ideal based on myths and stereotypes of the “taker” and that’s nothing like the vast majority of people who get help. 

I always enjoy the strains of Italian Food Purity that come in any OG article. My second-generation American via Sicily extended family goes there a fair amount and, when Sicilian grandma was alive, she’d go with them to Fazoli’s too.

Can’t wait for the Hot Takes from my Trumpy uncles having their breakfast beers about drugs and black folks. 

I was part of a crowd in grad school where partying was our sole connection and I had to quit drinking for a medical reason for a while. 15 years later I don’t touch it still because I found things, for me, were much better without it. I miss some of those people still, but it wasn’t sustainable for me. 

I generally agree, but I’ve also walked into some unfriendly local places over the years where my presence wasn’t appreciated. When I’m on the road, sometimes I just want my meal.

You’ve hit upon tomorrow’s dinner topic of discussion from my MIL, who worked for thirty years as a well paid (union) teacher, wherein any change from the meritocraitic world where her monied grandfather paid for her upbringing and education is an assault on American ideals.

“an ideology that has killed hundreds of millions”

Despite the fact it’s been Snopes’d and clarified repeatedly, my MIL still relishes the “Obama said 57 states” thing as if a slip of the tongue eliminates the entire validity of a presidency. Unless Trump does it, then we’re just being Gotcha meanies and disrespecting the office. 

I would like a library card for your GIF library.