It’s my district. In fact, it’s my hometown. She’s a terrible fit for it in terms of economic background, values and even personality. (To be fair, I was also a terrible fit for Dedham, personality-wise.)

I’m from that district. The incumbent is fine, and represents the values of the district much better than she does, even if I don’t share all of those values.

I’m pretty sure that’s not how gravity and/or orbital mechanics work. For the same reason that it’s very difficult to actually launch something into the sun (and not just into perpetual orbit around it), I’d imagine it’d be pretty hard to drop something into the Moon’s gravity well and expect it to end up on Earth’s…

There’s a difference between “moving right” and not dashing headfirst into communism. These newly-minted leftists would be just as dangerous as Trump if they ever acquired any real power.

I grew up in the town she just transplanted herself into. It’s blue-collar union workers and Trump voters with a side of milquetoast moneyed liberals. She couldn’t have chosen a less appropriate district to carpetbag in.

I also have no sympathy for GamerGate incels, but as someone who grew up in her new hometown (and, being smart and nerdy, didn’t really fit in), I don’t think she understands the district at all, and other than the WWII one, most of the anecdotes in the article strike me as especially cringeworthy for having happened…

I grew up in Dedham. Precinct 3, to be exact. My parents still live there.

I assume he can vote, no? Votes are kind of a useful thing in politics.

Again, he didn’t win the lucky-break lottery. He won the talent lottery. His reemergence isn’t stifling anyone else of comparable ability. You seem really worked up about this.

Your friend did something heinous enough to go to prison. What CK did wasn’t defensible, but it’s not in the same category as an actual sex crime. Not to mention that you can find loads of reasonable advocates for abolishing the sex offender registry, as even that is widely considered cruel and unjust.

Implicit in that is the idea that everyone involved is equally talented. I’m sorry, but that’s just not true. Not everyone has the capacity to create art, and the idea that similarly great works by those women were killed on the vine as soon as they saw his dick is just ludicrous.

If there were that many people in the industry who were remotely as talented as Louis CK, he’d never work again and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. There aren’t. Odds are the women he asked to jerk off in front of weren’t very funny, either, and that, more than any sort of retaliation, is why their…

That chart is just goofy. It’s using a weird metric, and as established earlier in the article, one of the groups has a substantial median family wealth, while the other has almost none, meaning the ratios will be skewed in a way unlike almost any other measure of charitable giving (including, I suspect, measuring…

I realize I’m six weeks late on this and that nobody cares anyway, but a flack is a spokesperson; flak is hot shrapnel. You take flak for saying something controversial, whereas you’d take a flack out for dinner to thank them for defusing the situation.

Politically, it’s a good talking point in blue areas, but a loser beyond that. ICE has other roles than just raiding and kidnapping children, and for better or worse, it’s following the orders of the person we (more or less) elected to supervise it. And as our friends across the aisle have demonstrated, running around…

I think I speak for 95% of Bostonians when I say keep Boston and get rid of WEEI.

I think it’s what Robert Downey Jr. wore in Iron Man.

Are there rumors that this is actually what happened, or is it just really, really likely, given the circumstances?

The problem is, it’s really easy to trap a ball against the ground as it lands. If this were a legal way of completing a pass, the character of the passing game would change dramatically and it would be much harder to defend receivers—and it’s already hard enough.

A more objective interpretation would be that you can’t score a touchdown unless you possess the ball. There’s no doubt that you possess the ball if you’re carrying it around. It’s more complicated when someone’s thrown it to you and you’re required to catch it without it hitting the ground.