Why shouldn't they care more about using their business for the purpose they set it up for as compared to the purpose people would like to assign to it?

I don't. I care about winning, as compared to just getting my rhetorical rocks off by giving some stupid bigot what for on the internet.

That put the thick middle class of the league in a difficult spot. Should they continue to try to fight for what they believe is right, even when so many of their friends, coworkers, and even union leaders want them to agree, or should they settle now in order to get back to what they really care about, which is…

Except the issue is that people don't think "You told me to go fuck myself, so now I'm going to stop saying x".

But he's not saying that. He's just telling him to go fuck himself.

But above you said you hated bigotry. Hating a person for believing"I think it's wrong, but we can all coexist", which is what Murphy expressed, is not something reasonable people do. It's something that people who are more invested in stroking their own sense of moral superiority than they are in seeing the world…

Note though, that the article itself says that you shame the movement but do not humiliate people.

Saying "go fuck yourself" is not hating bigotry. It's hating a person.

I think if you got in the middle of them, you might only get 1 or 2. If you could get to the edge and you were a halfway decent skater ... maybe most or all of them provided they never got around to coordinating together and taking you down like a little legion of devil children on skates.

With the caveat I'm not sure you can call Murphy's particular brand of anti-gay sentiment dangerous" even if it is reprehensible, even if we agreed that it were such, how is telling someone to go fuck themselves going to convince people who don't already agree with you that these are beliefs that should be stigmatized?

Why? What does it accomplish?

But, I've never been a bigot before, so I'll continue to tell Mr. Murphy to eat a big bowl of flaming hot dicks instead of talking to him like I'm not a crazy person in an effort to get him to come around!

It probably helps that Bean's job in this is to work on changing Murphy's attitude, instead of speak his thoughts into an echo chamber where insulting and disparaging bigots is part and parcel of the job.

Why? The guy he made his comments about (Beane) provided some pretty compelling reasons to find ways to take the high road, chiefly that by doing so it increases the odds of ... you know ... actually changing people's attitudes and beliefs.

The biggest reason I always make the bed is that when I go to bed at night and it is unmade, I feel depressed, because I associate it with times when it didn't matter whether I made the bed because no one else was going to give a shit whether the bed was made.

That depends on what kind of drunk you are, but yes, you are right.

I think I might go with alcohol and liver cirrhosis, just because smoking can create problems for people around you as well, but I have to say, I kind of agree, having seen multiple elder family members in my wife's family go through it, it's awful for them and for everyone around them.

Colleges: We want you to come forward and tell us when something bad happens so we can help you!

12. Your dog dying. I just saw John Wick, so this is fresh in my mind. That was one cute dog, too. Russians are terrible people.

Even setting aside the very real question of whether he's got anything left in the tank (let alone enough to not embarrass himself over the three years and $64 million remaining on his contract)