I don’t know, man. I live in Appalachia, where the vast majority of the coverage centers on poor areas. I see lots of news items and feature stories, and it’s a big issue in state politics, and none of that coverage has focused on well-off white kids.

Gotcha. I guess what I’m saying is I don’t think the media coverage is “disproportionate” to the level of concern necessary, which seems to be what you’re saying about hazing. It’s fucking tragic, as your story corroborates, and should be treated as such by the media. I’ve lost three friends from high school/college…

Ah Malört, the drink that hipsters love to pretend they enjoy.

The world was changing, and the whale was getting bigger...So you see, the whale was like industry, in that they were both lost at sea and nobody, especially the forklift, “society”, knew where to find them. Except that the whale was a cetacean, but the industry my friends, that was a revolution.

Like the opioid epidemic, it gets a lot of play because it’s happening to well off white people.

Repeating my response to an earlier commenter:

Not exactly. The mercaptan added to gas is isopropyl mercaptan, while the mercaptan you find in beer “skunked” by exposure to light is prenyl mercaptan (3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol). Close cousins, but different compounds with different odors/tastes. Also, certain anaerobic bacteria introduced in the brewing process can…

Yes. The burning chemical aspect of the smell doesn’t really come through when you just get that highway whiff. As a lover of both hops and good weed, I actually really enjoy a faint skunk smell, but up close that shit is wretched.

You try the Sierra Nevada Nooner? Pretty low on hops, nice and easy drinking and can generally be had for ~$8 a sixer.

Yeah. It’s almost like he’s speaking from a place a near-complete ignorance about craft beer.

I disagree. His characterization of craft beer makes pretty clear that he hasn’t tried the multitude of widely available craft beers that are similar to the Buds of the world in style, but exponentially tastier. Craft beer critics pretend that 90% of craft beers are imperial IPAs and fruited sours, which is just not tr…

If you just stick to styles that are similar to macros (lager, pilsner, kolsch, gold, blonde, etc.), you’re very likely to get a beer you will enjoy significantly more than the Old German. Now, will it be worth paying twice what the Old German costs? That’s up to the individual.

Didn’t you read the report? That was entirely Miss Jackson’s fault for having a sexy nipple, not Timberlake’s for exposing it.

Are you a relative newcomer to the outdoors with a heretofore sentient lifestyle?

Not a Philly fan and I can’t say whether it was “worth” all the losing (it was easy for me to ignore them during Hinkie’s tenure, pretty much just as I had since AI left), but the Sixers obviously had a successful rebuild. I’d much rather have their roster than that of Phoenix, Orlando, Sacramento, the New York…

Agree Hinkie drafted too many bigs, but I don’t think anybody who’s watched Noel play would call him “lumbering.” Despite being kind of a dipshit and not really improving his game while in the league, that dude is one of the quickest men at his height I have ever seen. That’s kind of his whole thing.

No way, buddy. Us Tomsula acolytes, just like the man himself, all know that toilet paper is a scam. Now if you’re famished and really in a pinch, you can take a chapter of the book, a handful of that round kind of grass that tastes like onions, a healthy slab of old shoe leather, and a couple of robin eggs (swallow…

She looked pretty rattled in the fourth quarter of game 4 against the Mercury. But agree that she has been fantastic overall and dominated this series.

The first one was bad. This one is good.

He seems shaken by the whole experience of going through the New York grinder.