Nah, it all helps. Look at the quotes from the Brewers organization. You’ve got the manager of the big club and several star players saying publicly that they’d welcome him. At least in that one organization’s group of ballclubs, the discussion is now being had. Even if that kid never makes it to AAA, much less the…

I disagree entirely. I don’t understand why this is news. It’s 2015, how in the world can people still actually care about baseball?

Reminder: the people who comment “who cares? why is this news?” are absolutely not emotionally indifferent to it.

As a person who got a lot of participation trophies and very few real trophies growing up, there was ABSOLUTELY ZERO confusion in my mind about what kind of trophy I got, and I was a pretty dumb kid. I had a very clear understanding of my skill level and my W-L records, and I never thought that my euphemistically…

To do this in the first place makes you kind of a dick. To do this in a public forum to children makes you kind of a legit psychopath.

Within NASCAR? It’s perfectly acceptable. Just like hitting your opponent with a handily placed folding chair is in its equivalent physical sport.

Disbelieving or blaming victims is a society wide problem, but there’s something about small towns that magnifies it. Everyone is just so in everyone esle’s business all the time, reinforcing whatever the popular narrative is.

I have a very clear memory, from when I was about 12, of my mother angrily telling me about a family we knew from church, and how their horrible daughter, who was a few years years older than me, had “ruined her family” by reporting that her stepfather had molested her. It didn’t even occur to my mother, or anyone…

Thank you for writing about this. I remember in the 7th grade that there was an 8th girl, kind of popular and already developing, who was rumored to be “having an affair” with the PE teacher/football coach. I remember at that time that we blamed her - that we thought she was a “slut,” that we though she had enough…

Please donate to Planned Parenthood itself, and not to Random Internet Person’s “Go Fund Me”.

She wasn’t cavity searched when she was booked. She was cavity searched before she had even been arrested, by the side of the road, and then arrested because she struggled while strangers illegally forced their hands into her vagina. There was nothing “routine” about what happened here.

It’s like actual reality is irrelevant, we’re living in 1984

Fuck everything.

There’s also a difference between “You can strip search me” and “You can strip search me??!?” but it all looks the same on paper.

She feels like she was sexually assaulted because that’s exactly what happened and I hope she gets a hell of a lot of money. The utterly disproportionate (not that it would ever have been okay) response from the police really got me with this one.

And that lawsuit will cost the taxpayers money, not the police. I’m not saying she shouldn’t sue, I’m saying the proceeds from the suit should come from the police retirement funds. When the “few” bad cops start costing the “good” cops money, then maybe the good cops will do something about their “brothers” behavior.

She has brain damage: deal with it.

It’s just a Deep South thing. They name their sons Stacy and Marion, too. That’s when they’re not naming the kids after grain crops. I knew a whole family in Kansas whose kids were named Rye, Milo, Wheat, and the like. Then they had a daughter, who they named Daisy or something.

For what it’s worth, a friend who has been to Lambert’s insists the rolls are so light that anyone who could injure someone with one “needs to professionally go into either baseball or murder.”

Of course there is a Comic Sans one.