But IS is a word.

Looked more like John Cusack to me.

She's farsighted.

Why would they name-drop Victor Emmanuel (a mostly-figurehead monarch) instead of the actual ruler of Italy at the time, Mussolini? Or is the hidden joke that they're really just as clueless about history as they are about sports?

"everyone dresses like a DayGlo version of Lady Gaga"

So on the one hand comedy ability isn't an objective standard, but on the other hand, you know as an objective fact that there are lots of equally talented performers. Which is it?

And here I thought the topic was race, not class. The child of two black lawyers gets a tremendous advantage over, say, the child of two Vietnamese dishwashers, and that's monstrously unfair.

Being qualified isn't an either-or thing, it's a continuum. A black applicant to an Ivy with a 1300 SAT and 3.5 GPA may be "qualified" in some sense, but they're clearly *less* qualified than a white or Asian applicant with a 1600 and 4.0. It's fallacious to say that affirmative action is merely a tiebreaker when it…

So she beat the world record half marathon time by around 15 minutes?