Currencies don’t work the way you seem to think they do.

“Racism is rampant in Ireland,” says an American. Good stuff.

Watch how totally OK and alert he is when it comes to vote for the Senate’s disastrous healthcare bill.

I did not think much of them. The first was OK, reminiscent of How Green Was My Valley, in a weird way. But by half-way through the third book I realized I wasn’t enjoying it at all and I had grown to truly loathe all of the characters if I cared about them in any way at all.

TIGHAR’s purpose is to promulgate wacky theories about Earhart. It’s what they do. It’s like when someone finds “evidence” of Bigfoot and WHOA AMAZING it was the Bigfoot Is Out There Really Club who found it what are the chances.

A counterpoint: far, far too often there’s an exchange like this:

Title IX wasn’t supposed to do anything about rape. Title IX says:

Man, if only there were some way of not giving money to random strangers who ask you for it.

The 11-year-old article you quote says that the team receives “a full property tax exemption” which contradicts the premise. Clarification required.

The Internet is hard.

It’s a highball, rather than a cocktail, but, hey, drink what you like.

Inane in-jokes are fun!

A Jesuit school.

“And the new rule is on a one-year trial basis, so they can just scrap it if it has the opposite effect.”

They’re really never going to be able to improve on Big & Rich.

“made Alex Smith a useful quarterback”

“ can drive people into higher tax brackets”

That is one way of restating what the article says, yes.

“Most of the people around the Grateful Dead couldn’t organize a piss in a brewery”

When I am enthroned as supreme God-king of grammar, I will allow both: it can be parsed as “the night belonging to ladies”, “Ladies’ Night” — or as “a night characterized by the presence and/or involvement of ladies”, “Ladies Night”. I think it is far less clear-cut than something like “the ladies’ beers and hot…