It’s an apt name. Hopewell, VA is the location of one of the original Superfund sites, a toxic mess of industrial abuse and waste, that was permitted to remain unacknowledged for a long time primarily because the people nearby were poor.

We Minnesotans have the butt-shot highlight market cornered. Remember this one:

The Post’s local editor and managing editor chose ‘deep throat.’ Typical to nickname DB sources so you don’t let slip any info. Felt had nothing to do with it.

He did kick the football. He didn’t kick it far, but he made contact.

Lot of swishes and chonks. I think you should get an extra .5 for the swish. Of course, I’m 10.

That’s a big one but by no means special. Since these fish have been better protected (in Canada and the US, for the western river species, and in the upper Midwest and Ontario for the lake species) they’ve been getting steadily bigger. The truly scary thing is that there’s no real upper limit to their growth. They’re…

Those are soybeans, not beans. And it’s a fallow field, already cut. No sacrifice.

Failure to close the loopholes—or willingness to leave them, which is more likely—is a rhetorical problem borne out of excess self-regard and theoretical objectivity adopted by the reporters. The press should be in a hostile posture toward government. Therefore all questions should be hostile. A hostile question…

Since when does GBA get the same ceremonial respect as the national anthem? Y’all go ahead. I ain’t standing, and I hope somebody complains.

Americans are ignorant generally, but especially ignorant around libel law. I wish this post included some of the specific facts about libel law so readers could understand (and not just read an implication) how groundless this suit is—though groundlessness has not prevented terrible outcomes so far, as Gawker Media…

Putin is a terrible threat to...dang! That is a big yellow perch! What’s that you’re using? Spinner, eh?

Opera dancers have finally gotten the recognition they deserve. Now if we could get those ballet singers out of the darkness we could rest. And to think—a few short years ago people would not even have known what you were talking about!

That thing would not tow well. The coasties usually sink such derelict vessels as threats to navigation. A couple of raps with the fifty cal should do it.

My union makes it dafe for me to call this woman a moron.

It was close because of numerous bad performances. That is not a good game of baseball.

oops. Distain. Ignore my comment below.

No problem with that language. I suppose ‘have been wanting to’ is a bit vernacular, but it’s not wrong.

Crap. I’ve been trashing kids’ goals for 33 years in the classroom. Do I get a moment of internet fame? No. Just a bunch of whiny assholes in prison or dead-end jobs. A wasted life.

Even better—he worked fast. Obviously the Mariners wanted to get out of Target Field and back to the hotel as soon as possible, but this guy was basically throwing pitches as fast as he could. It was refreshing.

That ‘somebody is signing your name’ routine works every time. The Cleveland Browns gambit. I have assigned it a rhetorical category of its own in my course and require my students to compose one.