I am getting hoarse from yelling this, but Republicans don’t even have to like their candidates for them to show up and vote for them. They will literally vote for horrible people who they don’t particularly like, because they know at the end of the day, that they’ll largely get the job done that they want done.

He was my baseball coach way back when and he really is an asshole.

Exactly. These people are in power because old white conservative bigots get out and vote EVERY single time.

This is a great time to be alive in America. If you are a bigot, that is. For the rest of us it sucks.

Wait, was this in the car or the restaurant? This is kind of sloppily written.

Stadiums are never good deals for cities, but if I was Detroit I’d make exception here if Gilbert pledged to live in the jail.

Honestly, I’m completely against firing someone for soliciting a prostitute, since prostitution shouldn’t be illegal.

This is a dark day for a program known for its rich history of moral integrity.

“When we arrived at Baylor, we made a commitment to character and integrity in our program.”

After reading the headline, I was hoping that he was the prostitute.

How do we know he wasn’t doing legitimate team business by checking out someone who he felt could help strengthen the players’ love muscles?

Well jumpin’ Jesus on a pogo stick, another distraction?

Baylor has fired strength coach Brandon Washington after he was arrested as part of a prostitution sting last week.

Also a lot of free labour.

What underpinned all of that—well-trained and therefore expensive gladiators, a massive professional army, and copious amounts of monumental architecture—was a powerhouse of an economy that produced incredible surpluses, enough to support cities of hundreds of thousands of people and a vast and diversified mining and…

I was there several years ago and quickly discovered I could get beer and wine cheaper than a soda. I pretty much just drank beer after that point.

That we were writing for an audience of other professional historians, trying to make arguments that advance our fields of study rather than writing to entertain or educate the uninitiated. 

I’ve also come across examples of racist attitudes from Australia. I thought they were isolated incidences until a caucasian Australian colleague set me straight and told there was a reason why she wasn’t going back to live there.

Yeah, I’m not so sure this is him really not-remembering. More like double-speak.

Can somebody please tell me why our side keeps losing? I’m getting sick-and-fucking-tired of it. Brexit. Trump. Italian referendum. Super Bowl (i.e., Trump again).