Yes! I don’t understand the concept of Dottie dropping it on purpose. The whole film Kit is trying to prove herself against her big sister and she finally beats her legitimately. She may not be a better ball player than Dottie overall, but in that instance she won. How cheap would that kind of win be for Kit if Dottie …

I don’t think she dropped the ball on purpose. Kit wanted it more than she did, and always had. Dottie had just told Ellen Sue a seemingly surefire way to get Kit to go down swinging; there’s no way she would’ve just given up after that. Her sister, a fast and strong and DETERMINED ballplayer, crashed into her at full…

That they’re doing this in response to a pro-choice Catholic, but never even considered anything like this for pro-death penalty Catholics, kind of gives away the game, doesn’t it?

Yep, if they denied communion to every parishioner who supported abortion rights (whether in theory, voting records, or via their or their spouse’s own abortion), their membership would decrease so drastically they couldn’t stay afloat.

Your sensible question tells me that you would be quickly booted out of the American Conference of Catholic Bishops, and your decoder ring confiscated.

It should probably be pointed out somewhere that on this issue, the American Catholic Church is also turning against the Vatican, who have repeatedly cautioned them not to do this. But US Catholicism has increasingly embraced this whole “more Catholic than the Pope” thing - the big instigator of this ‘excommunicate…

What about Catholics who support the death penalty? Isn’t that the flip side of the same coin? 

Biden is doing exactly what he should: not allowing his beliefs, whatever they may be (and we have no idea about his personal stance ) to influence public policy of the government he was elected to run.

The timeline of Osaka’s refusal/fine/withdrawal seems to be almost deliberately confused in this article to make it seem like they fined her for withdrawing.

They don’t understand how any of this work. No one expected Fed to go far, it was a surprise he actually played FO, it’s not his surface at all. Every one thought he will lose in early rounds or withdrew. It was expected. What FO did to Naomi is wrong, they accommodate players for many different reasons, but not for…

Wait... Osaka was fined for skipping the press event and then she dropped out, which she was not fined for.Federer dropped out but never skipped media events, So he wasn’t fined. If she had dropped out before skipping the press, she wouldn’t have been fined either, I assume.

I’m deeply confused by this comparison as there was no fine levied on Osaka for withdrawing from the tournament. In addition there have been multiple players who have withdrawn from these tournaments over the years, often due to injuries, without criticism from the heads of the organizations. The criticism and the…

For everyone responding that they should have known about the backlash and that their allyship is only performative, please consider that they can both be brave for saying anything publicly at all in their conservative town AND also underestimate just how racist their community still is. I grew up in small southern…

I do not get the ire for Erika Thompson. In my experience, almost every beekeeper has a different level of what they’re comfortable with, and some of them go into a hive with very little protection. As for the Trump-supporter claim, I’ve never seen/heard anything corroborating that, and her account shows her donating…

I know they get a bad rap and I love them too! People freaking hunt them with dogs where I live, and I think it’s disgusting.

You’re probably not in a position where you’re likely to encounter a bear, but I don’t want anyone else here to be under the impression that this incident wasn’t dangerous. Black bears tend to be pretty chill most of the time, and they are reluctant to attack humans, but that bear probably weighed 200 pounds, and it…

This really is a great example of how the headline really makes it sound far more amazing/dangerous than it is. Reading all the headlines I thought it would be this huge grizzly in the garden itself that she fended off and instead it’s this video of relatively small bear on a narrow high wall, a position that most…

Not only that, I would argue that the police doling out vigilante style punishment like this is getting pretty close to anarchy. If the police don’t have to follow the law, why should anyone?

Even if you are a “Law & Order” type the opening line to that show wasn’t enforced here. Cops served, as judge, jury, and executioner....and then judge again exonerating themselves.

“Instead of rendering aid, the troopers leave the heavyset man unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.”