A counterpoint: far, far too often there’s an exchange like this:
Ben Walsh
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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.
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…
“Unlike in modern times, the possessive form of “ladies” USED to have an apostrophe in 1914! The ensuing decades apparently rubbed the apostrophe off.”
“San Francisco is a sneaky tough media market, especially after their recent near-championship”
Claire Foy is the pale and interesting woman of the hour. We just saw her as Anne Boleyn.
he asked to have it comped because he didn’t bring cash and also didn’t want to put it on his card.
Catherine Madison approves.