Honest question, because I don’t know how international trade works: What does it even mean for a nation to purchase a bunch of agricultural products?

Odd move. Going from making a lot of money for doing nothing to not making any money for doing anything doesn’t make sense. 

Republican Representative Steve Hurst, who has proposed variations of the measure since 2006 said he believes this is appropriate punishment. “If they’re going to mark these children for life, they need to be marked for life,”

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of fans act that way in the NBA- or even the NFL

As a guy with “geographic tongue” I can tell you that I struggle with heat. So while I in theory love things like Indian or Mexican or whatever, I almost always die when I try it as it’s supposed to be and always hope that there is an option for people like me. Sadly, many places don’t. I can’t order the chili in my…

I went to college in Philly, but grew up in Oklahoma and every summer at the end of classes I’d fly home to the incredible heat and humidity of the Great Plains in the summer. My dad was a huge golfer, and knew the superindendent of the local country club (as much as a small college town in Oklahoma can call it as…

It’s a bold statement when someone gives tens of millions to a school he didn’t attend and then says “don’t go there because they are a bunch of Christofascists.” And it’s an even bolder statement when said school opts to return that money. Like, it takes a lot for a university to return cash. In this case, the…

Leadership posture.

Re on-line reviews:

It bothers me that many bikers bitch about drivers not following the rules of the road, and then those fuckers will run red lights/stop signs whenever they can.

Again, I am a dad. It is my instinct to find trends and phrases that went out of fashion years ago and render them even MORE uncool.

Just fuck all of these people. Unisex bathrooms are not a problem. 

What’s great about that last still is that you can tell by his form that he is already preparing to slide. Like, if you’re just sprinting at top speed, you are upright. But he is already crouching. It’s cool to see a frozen shot where a player has committed to the slide and yet to the average middle aged guy who never…

The furthers I’ve traveled for sex ended up being not sex. So, when I was in my early 20s in Oklahoma, I knew a super hot and flirty woman who had just moved from Oklahoma to Utah for school. (Very LDS, but from good sources defintely was down for sex.) We used to talk often— in an age where I had to call on my analog…

Well-- the right uses Antifa as a “but what about them” foil when people bring up violent Neo-Nazis. The idea is that Antifa is just the left’s version of Neo-Nazis and so both sides have those sorts of people. And yes, it doesn’t matter that Antifa is ostensibly against something-- fascism-- that is decidedly an…

Honest question re media and pro wrestling: In an actual sport, a reporter can ask a player/coach things about why a certain play was called, or to comment on why someone was so hot/cold, etc. But with a scripted event like this, those questions are to a great extent moot. So what is a reporter asking for these sorts…

Don’t you think it’s a strange way to phrase things, though? I’m not an expert on legal English from the 1800s but “death recorded” is odd versus just “executed on” as a term. It was enough for the reporter to do some checking (as a reporter, no less-- not a graduate researcher) and find out without too much effort…

Agreed. In my experience, the committee (aside from one’s advisor) doesn’t pay too much attention to the work and will just pick on a minor point during defense. But we were encouraged to present and/or publish parts of our dissertations to get more review. It seems like if she’d done such a thing earlier on, someone…

Best goddamned comment of the day.

Yeah. When I was in grad school, we’d have a monthly seminar where we were all assigned someone’s recent dissertation to read. We’d each have a chapter to go through and summaraize/critique. Since we were just lowly grad students, most of our efforts were on summarizing, since we generally weren’t in a position to…