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I work on cuneiform for a living. While many tablets are in great shape, some have breaks, etc. When transliterating (i.e. representing cuneiform graphemes with Latin graphemes), we often use brackets to represent that break. So, say you have a sign lugal (Sumerian for “king”) but the last part of the sign is missing.…

I really don’t know why more people aren’t doing this. I bought a car recently. The sales rep and I were talking and the conversation drifted to sports and he mentioned that he had played football for a few years for the local NFL team. But now, he was working and going to school.

And boom goes the dynamite!

Well, yes. Which makes me ask (and the whole reason I came here was because of this picture): Who the fuck moves mulch in khakis and a button down?!? I got something like a hundred bags of mulch last spring. If I were forced to do that in khakis and a button down, I can tell you that at the end of that day, I’d have…

Just wrote a Twitter thread about this. But it’s so true. My nephew just started college at a major state university. Only 1 our of 4 of his professors were tenured— the rest were adjunct. In searching one of his professors, you could track how he has moved all around the country taking adjunct jobs for years. That is…

Yeah. I work with a bunch of Evangelicals, though we also have some on our staff are also Jewish. One of those Jewish employees told me that one of our (Evangelical) employee spoke to her after a trip to Israel and said “I just came back from your country!” I don’t know how, exactly, she replied (I’m sure she was…

Perhaps we need to arrive at a definition of “conspiracy theory.” I think for most, if some rich people commit a crime, but use their wealth and status to cover up said crime, that’s still a conspiracy— even if lots of rich people have done it/gotten away with it in the past.

Also, this isn’t even close to historically true. Rape wasn’t some accepted thing in the past. It was often explicitly illegal.

Re the sock: I also have always been confused by this, even though I have heard from actual friends that this is a thing. Why? No, just position some tissue paper or a paper towel in the expected target area (sometimes you miss and then have to scrub out some carpet or whatever) and take care of business. Then you…

Yup, because in 2019 demonstrating against racism and mass murder is political. God dammit.

People really don’t get how athletic NBA players are. Unless he went to one of about eight schools, the fifteenth guy on any given bench is, like, the best athlete his college program has seen in three decades

“A properly placed ‘fuck this fucking fuck’ is so satisfying as an emotional release, I say it regularly as a way to avoid therapy.”

Excellent. I will look for it. Thanks!

Right? I get some of the problems— you don’t want to write an article saying “Hey, coach X who is still in the league always said that on 3rd and short he wanted to run a sweep to the far side of the field,” or something. But still. There has to be general stuff— like, if you see a guard line up in a certain way, he’s…

But now they are so niche their followers would shun mainstream music?

This is 100% true. There is a certain segment of Evangelical Christians who simply do not like any dealings with the non-Evangelical world. There are people who actively seek to interact with like-minded Evangelicals as much as possible. The goes from obvious things like bookstores and music— where popular Christian…

More like this, please! I get so tired of football articles that live in coach-speak or banal observations. As a dork who played for a year in high school 20+ years ago (I was tasked with ‘best receiver on the scout team’ role, if that gives an indication of my talent; I was much better suited for XC and middle…

In 1993, Jones gave in to Emmitt Smith’s demands after Dallas started 0-2 during what would become a run to a repeat Super Bowl title.

Damn the Christian church to hell. I’m not familiar with this guy and his dumb book, but I grew up in a Christian world that was certainly advocating for such things. There is almost nothing worse than “taking care of business” as a teen and then feeling guilty because... well, you were taking care of business. The…