It’s not “getting hung up on minutiae”, it’s pointing out that — your attempt to move the goalposts notwithstanding — that you were Making Shit Up.

What the hell is “TMA”?

If there’s an association of female meteorologists, I want them all to show up at the next convention wearing this dress.

“He didn’t say that”

I had a college roommate who was a hippie-ish vegetarian — but he explicitly made an exception for cheeseburgers during the Friday night outdoor barbecues. “Bill,” I said the first time I saw him grilling one, “I thought you were a vegetarian?”

Yes. I never watched much of Twin Peaks, but I did see Catherine Coulsen perform at the OSF.

We can tell.

Needs multiple upvotes.

Yep, there’s a story. Google “University of North Dakota chief benefactor” and you find this:

and not to sound like a pompous asshole

So, hopefully the iOS version released on August 13th will actually work instead of instantly crashing on start-up, like mine has done for the last ten days.

And her husband, when he was actually President, signed DOMA, so thanks Bill.

If you think you “got the point perfectly”, I’d say you’re the sort of person the discoverers of the Dunning-Kruger Effect had in mind.

In California, at least, law-enforcement derives its authority from the state constitution, so an LAPD officer has the same arrest powers in San Francisco or a San Bernardino sheriff’s deputy has the same arrest powers in Marin. Jurisdiction issues are about professional courtesy and procedures, not legality.

There's nothing really wrong with portrait mode; what's wrong is the lazy jackholes at YouTube can't be bothered to support the mode.

That wasn’t a rationale, that was a word salad starting with its conclusion and working backwards. Seriously, you actually typed this out and hit “Publish”?

This reminds me of John Hodgman’s differentiation between nerds and hipsters. To paraphrase:

This is the South, so it should be called “Peckerwoods”. With the logo of a cartoon woodpecker, of course.

So, you’re of the belief that a man falsely and very publicly accused of one of the most awful crimes imaginable should just suck it up and take it, and that the school shouldn’t be sanctioned for endorsing a project specifically devoted to celebrating a victim of a crime that didn’t take place?

I know where *I’m* going this weekend. I hope they let visitors try it on.