I moved to LA back in the late aughts and stayed for a few years. Over that time, I lived in a series of apartments in West LA. The houses in the neighborhoods I walked through always struck me as strange. Those front yards were relatively small— it was just a few paces from the front door to the sidewalk. Yes, they…

Re The National, I don’t recall it personally, but seeing the name jogged my memory and if you haven’t read it, Grantland ran something on it several years ago. It might be worth reading.

I always enjoyed listening to him on NPR (would, though, that he didn’t have such a public loathing of soccer!). Somehow, his voice seemed to match perfectly with his commentary. That voice and its delivery couldn’t do the nightly news, but neither could a typical national news anchor do what Deford did.

and are remotely nutritious

There is a lot of amazing stuff to digest here, but as a hetero guy in his 40s in an LDR: that masturbation number is incredible. Something like nearly 25% of men in my age group haven’t jerked off at all in the past year?!? This is an unintentional pun, but that’s nuts.

They are kids and so he had an advantage to abuse them, but as a jury member: assuming you have been to the doctor at least a few times as an adult, you know that real, honest, doctors tell you what they are doing and why, go to some lengths to make sure you are comfortable with what is about to happen before it…

Thanks for the answer. As you mention it, it jogs my memory. But we still have the elephant in the room: What is Sessions doing with Russia, then? Like, we don’t hear that these various Trump officials had undisclosed meetings with, say, Argentina. Or Italy. Or South Korea. All of these people are just, “Oh, yeah I…

I haven’t seen this discussed somewhere, but it seems like it’s worth it: So many of these people in the Trump administration have these Russia connections— so many that it’s just not normal. But how did they all make it into this administration. Did Sessions know Trump somehow before this election began? Sessions was…

“We need people to go to work... If you are on food stamps, we need you to go to work.”

This can’t be stressed enough. I am surprised at this point that the Saudis actually had to pay for the stuff they got. Like, I can really imagine Trump seeing his scowling visage projected onto a building and saying something about how we have a lot of aircraft carriers and just offering one to them.

That’s a good point. I wonder, too (and maybe this was brought up?) to consider some sort of regional adjustments? That $15 an hour translates differently between New York City and Oklahoma City.

Under rated comment. I’m in my 40s. I’ve known trump was a moronic dick since I was 10.

I’m behind the times on sports media and ESPN, though I know that there have been some big changes as the company tries to get its finances in order by firing people.

I am with you. I feel low when I comment on Trump but seriously, what the hell. He’s 70. Figure out how what the proper length of a tie should be, and learn how to button your suit. (And occasionally, would it be so hard to wear a shirt that isn’t white?)

Is this finally it??? Can this please be the beginning of the end?

Tangentially related, but I can’t understand why PR people haven’t figured this out. When you do something stupid that obviously offends your fans/followers/constituents/etc., this is not the right response:

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SO weird that he aligns with the party of “family values” and then acts like this!! /s

But that’s not what the main point was: the comment by the Congressman was that no one died due to a lack of healthcare. The argument this story makes is that if someone had the ability to go to a doctor knowing that costs would be manageable, then that person would be more likely to go to a doctor early to get early…

This is an actual mentality. The largest newspaper in my home state— a right wing bastion— penned an editorial about the GOP’s new healthcare ideas and invoked those same buzz words like “choice” often. One of their key arguments was that by getting rid of federal regulations, people could get a plan that was right…