Wow, Canada, I thought you were better than this!

Unconditional acknowledgment, profound remorse, accountability, and outreach would be milestones in the healing process.

Thornton: I roll a 19. Critical hit!

I lol’d.

Hold that thought...

Just chiming in to agree. He has the intangible charisma or someone who, for better (and more often worse) is true to themselves and their own nature. Much to the amusement, and sometimes the dismay, of us all.

Sure, cancel the respectful dialogue and start/continue shaming them. And you’ll hand Pence the White House in 2020.

...you’re at least either racist or stupid, and quite possibly both. I’m sorry.

If General Mattis is confirmed as SecDef, there will at least be a resourceful, educated man of principal — albeit a little rough around the edges — standing between Trump and our conventional forces.

If you follow the thread, the person to whom you were responding was equating “racists” with “people who support Trump.”

Or objectively offensive, for that matter. It’s what comedians do; they poke fun at people and things, frequently in offensive ways.

No, she didn’t.

One party shouldn’t need to respond when the other party claims they’re going to offer ice cream for breakfast. The adults in the room are expected to know better.

This is where somebody reflexively answers “TO WIN,” where I would agree with you and ask, “At what cost?”

Trump though...they probably told him, “do what we say and you’ll have all the money you want.”

1. Olivia and Jordan’s GF are BFFs.
   

You’re right, and this phenomenon transcends sports. You often witness this and hear about it in tightly-knit military units. When you eat, breath, and sleep teamwork and an objective (“winning”), the fear of letting down the team or endangering the mission can be devastating. Guys literally apologizing to their…

“Sir, Baghdad’s secure and forward elements are advancing North past phase-line Victory. What do we do now?”

<radio crackles with ominous, static-polluted silence, for the first time in months>
— 2003

That would require a fact-based, rather than fear-based, approach to this analysis. I get the sense that the author is impassioned, but doesn’t have a background in the tactical details. It hurts the message, as it comes across as just another “sky is falling” piece.

Unions need to begin by combatting the awful perceptions they present to most people who aren’t in unions. The rules around selling your lemonade don’t matter if I, the consumer, don’t want to buy your lemonade. In other words, you can’t expand membership if potential members have a poor perception of it.