You need to look at the North too. Some of the most racist human beings lived in Northern Virginia, where I’m from. My mom and dad made a decent living and when they bought the house I grew up in, it was 253k. We were one of the first families in that part of the subdivision. White people get rather huffy when they…

That sounds like a human law made by humans. Leviticus has a lot of rules that involve death. Sex while menstruating is one. The Bible was edited by men who are flawed. It also is sexist and cuts women out. Jesus was big on misfits, women and the poor. He would have thrown a tantrum in that church.

The woman tells her that she’s doesn’t want to “argue” her faith.

Holy shit this is a crazy story. How do these men not go to prison? We need to know who “dropped” the charges.

I get the parent’s grief. But blaming some locker room attendant for running out to score him some drugs and not Skagg’s himself is some next level denial. His death is indeed tragic and I wish he got some help, but it was his decision to make this fatal mistake. Jamming up some underling is bullshit.

I honestly don’t know if I would be able to continue on if I lost my wife and little girl and the thought of ever experiencing an ounce of what he’s going through is turning my stomach.  Just an absolute tragedy

Agency and autonomy for them and not for others is the core belief of the religious fanatic anti-vaxer credo. Fine, be plague carriers and murder your kids. But you can’t come to public places and kill mine.

Yeah, your location is probably the single largest determining factor. A good percentage of my friends are smack in the center of the cohort that got most extremely fucked over by the housing bubble burst and/or job losses in the recession. Many were just graduating college or grad school when the economy tanked and…

“Sir, this is an empty room”

I honest to God have no idea who you’re arguing with right now.

I am so sorry you are going through this. I just lost my mother to Alzheimer’s and it is a hell of a thing. It is a harsh and infuriating disease and it robs you of your loved ones in a maddeningly gradual and then frighteningly accelerated way. My mother went from not remembering how to play certain card games, to…

And Colts fans booed Andrew Luck for walking away.

Same. This is heartbreaking and I am so grateful to her for sharing her story because it's goddamn important.

God, that line at the end. Crying at my desk. Thank you for writing and publishing this.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.

I’ve never seen anything like this. I mean all of these chuds wouldn’t last a second on the football field. Do people realize every play is a car accident. I mean literally that’s what it is. The human body is not designed to take the kind of punishment football doles out.

Maybe, according to Dan Dakich, we pay our football players too much. A cursory google search shows that Andrew Luck has made about $50,000,000 in his “brief” NFL career. Clearly more than enough to retire comfortably on.

Dan Dakich’s family members who are steel mill workers, cops and teachers make considerably less…

If there was a young man in literally any other profession who made $100 million before he was 30 and decided to retire, he would be lauded. The Wall Street Journal would write thousands of words of wankery praising his acumen and smarts and god bless America.

We are steadily approaching The Big Three equivalent of streaming. Get ready for a lowest common denominator approach with shows being culled left and right in the wink of an eye. These companies are throwing billions at the wall and none of them will be remotely risky or sentimental about it.

This is the answer, right there—the rush toward hiring adjuncts en masse over cultivating full-time faculty is absolutely deleterious to the good order and function of any institution of higher education.

To be clear, adjuncts are every bit as qualified as their full-time counterparts—same degrees, and often more…