Deep Sate must be behind this.

“...I never set out to ruin the career of the person I wrote about.”

Sounds like the problems it faces as a show are similar to how WGN’s Manhattan and The Outsiders got axed despite critical, and with the outsiders, genuinely popular acclaim.

Maybe you can answer a Dairy Queen history conundrum for me. How did they build the 16th largest franchise in the world by selling ice cream from their corporate headquarters in Minnesota? Seems like any old burger stand can become a McDonald’s when they’re able to see their food 12 months of the year but Dairy…

Dennis the Menace may have been the longest lasting DQ ad campaign but it was far from the most intriguing. Perhaps you’ve forgotten about their partnership with the US Astrochimp Program? Without Dairy Queen to sweeten the pot, maybe NASA never gets to the mooo-n.

That’s on a case by case basis and varies depending on the local jurisdiction. While tempting as hell, I don’t see them applying it in the case of an attempted suicide, no matter how lame or moronic.

Congress was abandoning its power and responsibilities in a big way since, oh, the war powers act? And never bothered to claim them back in any meaningful way. So the executive branch started developing power all of out balance with the other two. And then at the apex, the focal point of all this barely checked…

Who the bloody hell climbs to the top of a mountain to announce they’re going commit suicide by overdose?!

This is not a recent new thing. See: “The Bachman Limit” from the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary race. Fact-checking, “reality,” and “truth” were still in vogue back then but Michele Bachman’s candidacy was testing their limits. Reporters found that they had to deal with what they named the “Bachman Limit” when…

Could we get a mention of the UN (specifically Nepalese troops) introducing Cholera to Haiti as part of the “relief” efforts back around 2010?  Ah, Cholera, one of the very few afflictions that Haiti did not previously suffer from. 

I’m kind of guessing here but it seems to me that the #1 problem would be that he is apparently dead set on going to UNC-Charlotte.  Now if you took genius POC with 4.5 GPA and went looking for colleges I strongly suspect that there’s far more highly rated schools than UNC-Charlotte (What, is that like the 3rd or 4th…

Funny thing. I was going back and reading to make sure I had my factual ducks in a row. They’re not just taking her name off a prize. They’re retroactively changing the name for all past winners (per the ALA website).

I’ve read the ALA and ALSC statements and releases. Despite everything they say about how it’s not an attempt to retrospectively pass judgement or get people to stop reading her books I cannot see this change as anything but a direct attack for one main reason.

Guess I must’ve been the one then. I never said anyone would turn it down. But a lot of the prestige just went out of the door. If you changed the name of the Nobel Prize to the Thompson Prize, what does that do to it? Same prize. Same caliber of winners. Changes the name from a guy who invented dynamite to an award…

And rendered the prize generic & meaningless while dismissing LIW’s contributions to children’s literature and the common literary heritage of America.

And the award for the surely soon to be renamed Mark Twain ironic humor award goes to the ALA!

Really. I interpreted it 180 degrees from that. The post-script, to me, read like, “If you’d apologized sincerely to me at any point in the past four years I wouldn’t be publicly shaming you and costing you *your* career now, so suck on that, turd-goblin.”

Sorry, but, um, that’s not the reason. You’re not really wrong about the % required for herd immunity but you’re wrong about why the researchers displayed the bins this way.

tl;dr: I can see a giant gaping in your story that should have been addressed. You don’t explain those white states.

Maybe this is like being in the uncanny valley only for robotic cars? In this unsafe valley the problem is that it’s so much like our expectations of a self-driving car that we start treating it like a self-driving car when it is patently not. Because it seems to be pretty consistent that when you get into trouble is…