Way to spoil the surprise for your nephew, James. Now he knows exactly what kind of institutional racism is in store for him.

Fuck that. This was the best thing that ever happened to this kid, and he was in no way ‘damaged’ to the point of 15 million dollars.

I just commented to alan directly, but I’ll reply here also:

This describes my night life. Fall asleep within minutes but startled awake between 3-4am for weeks now. My anxiety and depression are messing with my sleep patterns, which in turn makes me even more anxious because I'm too tired to focus at work. I'll try some of these tips, I hope one of them can help!

I can also do that, but I wake up in the middle of the night pretty much every night, to the point where I went to a sleep lab to see what was up (they found no sleep apnea but plenty of heightened brain, cardiac & respiratory activity at my usual stress-wake time of 3 AM). Being able to fall asleep instantly is…

Doesn’t matter to me.

So this option might be effective and reduce odds of recommitting; but do you want to play odds with your kids? Your spouse? Yourself?

It was not legal,

I feel qualified to weigh in here, because I’m a big Milwaukee Brewers fan. They employ Ryan Braun, one of the most hated players in the game. I lied to myself for a long, long time. I believed he was innocent. I believed he was above cheating. I believed that his natural talent and ability got him his accolades, and…

But:

YAWN.

Bullshit. They would have found something else to bitch about. I mean, considering how little this fucking matters, and they’re STILL managing to make a big deal out of it, I frankly don’t think any theoretical headaches could have been saved.

Can someone PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD cover how every fucking high ranking government predecessor has done this on some level for fucking ever? Like, can we talk about all the emails that disappeared at the end of the Bush administration? No? We want to KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS?

wow

Those last three pretty much sum up my college experience.

Beckman’s

It’s well within fair use since the images are intended to be humorous and couldn’t be construed to be part of the Star Wars franchise.

I think this falls under Fair Use because it’s parody.

I was so happy that the game went to overtime. Now everybody can scapegoat the guy who missed the breakaway dunk at the end of the third.