Is it really appropriate to use his O-face as the cover photo here Timothy?

So, you are so simple minded and easily distracted that you need a certain ambience to enjoy talking with your friends?

Yeah, but I can go to a local, fairly nice restaurant and get their all you can eat brunch, which includes all of the things listed with reasonably high quality ingredients along with scads of other food groups, for $17.

your avocado toast with one egg on it set you back $12, which is the cost of four avocados and an entire loaf of bread.

Get out of the damn house.

I’d say it would also be fair to include in the “unfair” defense the fact that they weren’t at full strength against the Spurs last year.

Well, not really. It would not be surprising in the least if they transform into The We-Will-Wreck-Your-Shit-With-One-Too-Many-Passes-For-You-To-Keep-Up-With Spurs and win it all again.

But you give the lie to your statement by saying “(because you know that punch wasn’t the first time he hit her)“

You get real. You have reduced Janay Rice, a human being, into a helpless totem without knowing the first damn thing about her beyond what has been published in media reports based on a bunch of assumptions about what she would or would not do if faced with abuse.

(because you know that punch wasn’t the first time he hit her).

Maybe, but ultimately, you take away her agency as surely as Rice did by not letting her speak for herself. If she wants to be a part of his redemption narrative, she is free to do so.

You need to get with the program here.

So is there no possibility that she still loves him and does in fact believe whole heartedly that he has changed?

Here! Here!

What if she’s the one including herself in them?

Naw, you just seem to be under the impression that contracts can’t be renegotiated if all parties to them are amenable to it.

“I don’t give a fuck what a bunch of assholes think about what I wear” would have been so much simpler than going through the hassle of setting up a podcast to answer the question.

You do realize that the current labor deal in place is not actually a law, right?

But it ultimately ... kicked you in the gut. I'd also argue that when I say "muddle through" I am not referring specifically to financial survival. I'm referring to being able to, at the end of the day, be aware of what your frustrations were, roughly why you had them, and to be able to let them go for long enough to…

"Could use" and "need" are two different things.