Gender, tears, and vulnerability thus found its necessary semantic bridge in sexual heroism: what was “woke,” in other words, was automatically “bae.”

You know what I noticed first watching that highlight video? How much better a broadcast looked when there weren’t ugly fucking ads in the background behind home plate.

Well, I don’t see anything to be offended about with Lamar or Tyrone. Unless they’re spelled “LaMarre” or “Tirhone” or something dumb like that.

Legally, you’re right, but in practice unless you want to live a cash-only existence (and I mean working off the books, too, not just avoiding credit) and be homeless, it’s impossible to avoid “consenting.” Kind of makes the very word “consent” horribly ironic.

I don’t agree with everything you said but I starred this for your second-to-last paragraph.

One thing that I don't think a lot of people realize is that late payments only go on your credit report if you are I think 30+ days late. So everyone griping about how one late payment drags down your score: well, don't be 30 days late. Several times in the last decade I have screwed up and paid a bill on the wrong…

Going to Vegas and not gambling is like going to a theme park if you hate roller coasters. Or a ski resort if you don’t ski. Or a vegan going to a steakhouse. It’s inexplicable.

Yes...interest rate plays a huge role in how you should prioritize repaying debt. Different people have different opinions about when it makes sense to save/invest instead of paying more on a debt (at a bare minimum, you should repay a 0% debt as slowly as possible), but if you’ve got multiple debts you pretty much…

And in the time it takes to save 6-12 months expenses, you’ll pay an awful lot of interest on your debt.

That’s not true. You only need credit to have a credit score, not debt. Using a credit card and paying it in full every month, not paying a dime in interest, will keep your credit history active.

There's a happy medium, though. Most people aspire to drive something somewhat newer than a 20-year-old $2,000 car, and you're also going to have a ton of maintenance issues to keep one like that running.

Random thoughts on the topic:

The thing is...fuck George Will for a million reasons, but he’s kind of right that pure democracy isn’t (nor should it be) our goal here. Trump has proven himself to be a uniquely bigoted and hateful candidate even by the standards of the modern GOP. If a majority of Republican primary voters happen to agree with him,…

Yeah. I don't think every rude or even offensive comment online amounts to bullying, but there's a pretty clear line to me between posting something once (which the person you're responding to can ignore, delete, or engage with) and going after them on multiple platforms. That's taking it into real life.

Lots of people would disagree that his ramblings are tedious. And he manages to weave them in with his description of the game quite nicely.

I had to talk my wife down after she saw that article because now she’s worried that our dog doesn’t like it when we hug him. Our dog is big on physical contact and judging by the way he drapes himself over us and snuggles up in bed, he likes closeness.

Maybe newscasts are doomed anyway, but in 2016, literally they only chance they have at getting me to tune in is by being entertaining. I can get any score I want in ten seconds online, so reading them in a monotone gives me absolutely no reason to watch.

I don’t know how exactly it works, but this actually seems like a rare case of the NFL doing what’s logical. They’re trying to expand the game beyond the US and the way to do that is definitely not to force players who are already ready to enter the league to go through the NCAA first.

Even a cynic like me has to admit, how can you not smile at the thought of a guy who picked up the game 5 years ago being drafted by his favorite team?

I have to believe that even a sixth-round pick is pretty well-researched by teams and no sane coach is going to be influenced at the last second by a commentator. That said, I do wonder if Minnesota fed information to the NFL Network that led them to believe there was a really good chance the Vikings would draft him,…