I’ve had this happen so-many-times (I need an exasperation font) with family. It goes from my gentle correction to them accusing me of being a commie (pretty much correctly, albeit) in about three minutes.

So you know my MIL.

mmmm....Tully’s.

It’s because they are all criminal masterminds with various fake credentials to defraud welfare offices and employers, while waiting outside Home Depot for work or picking vegetables for 18 hours a day.

That’s my take, too—we’re not talking “a couple flakes, I’m not coming in.” This puts more people on possibly uncleared roads even earlier, so that they aren’t minutes late for team meetings or warm ups.

Speculation, guesses and what if....that way lies the fanwank side of the Force.

I like how you put this.

I can remember my parents complaining about the late start of championship football games when I was kid and I thought them so old and out of touch. Now I’d call them in the fourth quarter to say they’re right but we’d all be asleep.

To the 2% of readers who aren’t bored lawyers: immediate statements/releases are always about establishing the baseline defense in any legal case. So the university is going to try to look proactive, the coach is going to deny everything, etc.

He wasn’t fully cleared. The complaint couldn’t be proven, but they found enough to feel he was a liability to keep him. It happens all the time in the HR world and it’s SOP to err on the side of cutting ties.

Well put. It’s the full buyout that says this is a liability-management decision and not a disciplinary decision.

A middle-of-the-road team from Manhattan and a barely-NHL team from Buffalo playing in Queens. That could be the textbook example of how not to program for a national audience.

I am a slob with well dressed friends who tolerate my array of jeans and sweatshirts. And when I’m with a well-dressed POC friend, I get so much better service in every store, even if they are wearing the store’s products. It no longer surprises me but I kept hoping it would change someday.

It’s been a while since I bailed on the MLB app and trying to watch games, but I think CLE, PIT, NYM and NYY were all blacked out as “local” to me.

Guy on my Destiny fireteam has been known to put down his controller and run to 7-11 for a Slurpee, midgame, so...I need new friends, yes, but I found that part believable.

I always feel like Mike Tomlin**** should be on the list given the local chatter.

I did not and now you have ruined any productivity that might have occurred today.

That will be $1500. Small unmarked bills, please.

Force drain of two.

I am reluctant to answer, lest the conflated topic of male gaze come into play, but as a hetero male I really do enjoy watching women and funny women in a heist flick, a favorite silly genre, has me excited.