let him live

The real hero of this video is the dude on the Smith Machine pausing from his reps just long enough to shake his head dismissively.

As an NCAA football player (at the time), the only incorrect answer to the psychologist’s question is human being.

thanks blair

Ehh I was all ready to agree with that, until I watched the clip. He was obviously much better than her and much more compelling. I think it was more that she wasn’t a strong enough performer to hold their attention against the baby and husband.

So both of these people are insufferable, but it’s so weird that literally everything they didn’t like about her (lightness, distracting family) was positive and inspiring when he stepped up. I’d be mad too if I was her, but in less of a “why can’t I ever be good enough” way and in more of a “that’s some internalized…

I hear you and I don’t simultaneously.

The threat that stupid, angry, self-righteous, white, male, gun nuts present should not be joked away, but the people themselves should absolutely be relentlessly mocked. I mean...they’re just so, so stupid. And so very earnest in their stupidity.

The amazing thing about this play was how absolutely certain Beckham was that he had a catch with two feet in bounds. Lots of guys beg for the replay flag after the call goes against them. But there were no histrionics here. This was not for show. Beckham just stood up and signaled to his sideline that he was 100%…

Religion.

Good lord, what will the middle and upper classes do with only LIMITED loopholes through which they can filter money?

Who gives a shit? Take their money. Cry me a river, Richie Rich.

People don't want to trade in the hand they're dealt if it happens to be a pretty good one. I think it's easier to convince them to give up earned income in the form of taxes (kind of a "cost of doing business"), but it's more difficult to get them to submit inherited or accumulated wealth. And of course, not all…

I read shit like paying for cell phones or wiring a couple hundred....and it boggles my mind. I would never even THINK of asking my parents for something like that unless I was literally penniless and on the street. And if I DID ask for it...I doubt they could do it because they don’t have any money either.

This makes so much sense. And if people like this are unwilling to recognize informal financial help from their parents as real and actual help—the kind that counts—it’s no wonder that they’re also unwilling to notice and acknowledge informal racism (and other forms of oppression) as real. You know, the kind of…

...And this is the part where I propose the 100% federal estate tax.

You’re right. It is sad that whatever provincial metropolis you live in or near isn’t the media capital of the world.

Baylor could use a quarterback...

I don’t care about the Cubs one way or another. Cubs fans? I actively root against their collective happiness.

Cosmically bad at-bat. It’s moments like this that engender the “Shit, brah, I could be a big leaguer” talk I always hear from the forearm tribal tattoo set at my scuzzy local. Damnit, Howie. Double damnit.