Ah, I see what you meant--misintepreted the antecedent.

“Shipping” as a term has been around since like the 90s at least, and people were doing it as far back as original Star Trek...

A couple points:

IDK, my friend who went to Penn 15 years ago said that he word-saladed his way through an entire speech she attended while at Penn. Conceivably the tapes suffer from selection bias.

LOL trust me, I know what kinds of overconfident men I’ve ever found attractive, and it’s not anyone who’d brag to a phlebotomist about how his more physically fit friends are scared of needles.

Aww, thank you!

Quick story: I was donating blood at the Red Cross once, and there was this chatty guy on a table next to me talking to the nice, obliging phlebotomist while giving blood. First, he bragged about how he donates blood unlike all his bro friends with muscles, who are scared of needles. Then, when she asked him where he…

I do actually like Liam as a character, but I agree. He is not cool.

Yep. We need to work to make sure the Syria storyline gets weaved into the Russian collusion storyline.

Absolutely—I was at a friend’s apartment for a bachelorette weekend recently, and the only reason I even removed myself to the bathroom to change between outfits was because I thought I probably ought to protect my friends’ sensibilities. After you’ve stripped naked backstage at age 13 to get into a French…

I’d managed to disappoint Triss two games in a row by never prioritizing her over anything, including a dragon, so I sort of thought, what the heck, I’ll keep the streak running!

Agreed--everyone in this thread is acting like they’ve never been caught off-guard and handled something less smoothly than they could have.

I, for one, have frozen in situations way less embarrassing and on-the-spot than the one Beatty was in—I think it’s totally unfair to expect him to be completely on the ball about something so surprising.

Right??? What is with the hyperbole in this article? I voted for Clinton in the primaries and frankly am the opposite of a Sanders fan, BUT I liked Ellison for the same reason I voted for Clinton, which is that based on what he said (in his case, voter turnout strategy), he seemed to have some practical plans for how…

This reminds me, this article came out in the Times:

IDK about when I was 7, granted, but I had definitely started evolving into the raging liberal I am now by middle school. We had political conversations about the war in Afghanistan in the seventh grade cafeteria. It wasn’t deep, or common, but I wouldn’t have the mature political thoughts that I now do without that…

Yes! I think it’s so important that liberals are getting organized in relatively conservative states. Having lived in a Southern state (though I am not myself white), I know that a lot of white liberals in particular feel very isolated and like they can’t talk about politics at work, with family, or anywhere for fear…

Yep! cf. how no one below a certain income bracket bothers to itemize their charitable giving.

I don’t in any way think it likely (assuming a hypothetical pre-2019 impeachment) that the GOP would voluntarily remove Pence from office in an impeachment, but I agree with the first half of your argument.

Technically, knowing that the Republicans would act similarly to how the Democrats did is exactly why everyone’s doing it and reporting on it.