I don't think Pudgy Spice up there could even say anything that pleasant.

My in-laws stayed in our spare for about five days a few years ago. I didn't realize until they left just how permanently stressed their presence had made me. Not going through it again.

Same logic applied to getting my gall bladder removed. Not eager to relive it.

Seriously. I think the "thank you for your service" cliche applies here.

HeII, I'll rent you a hotel room before you stay in my spare.

I think giving Undertaker's retirement space at the end of Wrestlemania was the right move. They've got plenty of coming shows to play Roman as a heel, and, well, the audience is already there.

I guess it doesn't bother me because it's been around long enough that I don't see it as business-specific. Plus, it's two actual words that pretty directly mean the thing they're supposed to with their conventional dictionary definitions. Don't get me wrong, I've got plenty of business buzzwords that drive me nuts…

"Even the word itself seems pretty needlessly provocative" - problem is, the alternative is either to try to focus group new words until you get something sufficiently inoffensive while still being pithy and accurate (um, no), or to change the meaning of an existing word. This is what happened to "privilege", which…

You can't make people care - and honestly, what do they have to gain by educating themselves? Educating takes more than a few minutes when encountering something that, despite being widespread and significant, has literally never been part of your life - I've never told anyone to "smile" outside of taking pictures,…

Because Hemingway didn't make the brilliant move of putting a complete cipher at the center of his story, thereby allowing generations of critics to project whatever the hell they want on the narrative.

And Rosemary's Baby is an amazing film. Great art does not mean the creators are great people.

So many terms that have migrated from academia (privilege, mansplaining) boil down to an instruction that the speaker should shut up. The original term was created to summarize a rather long and involved argument *why* the speaker should shut up, but as you said - "every tool is seen as a potential weapon". Net…

I think that aspect is a selling point for a lot of people who use it - if you don't want to bother educating people, it's a great way to ensure that the only folks who pay attention to you already agree with you.

If there's one thing Trump is good at, it's providing scapegoats.

Hey, be glad he only needs one.

Wonder how many more of those incidents will happen, since the Eisenhower Administration foolishly built the highway system to outlast living memory.

Agreed, but that's what I mean by first-order sort - you use it to determine *which* critiques to examine. And if something without pedigree nonetheless gets a lot of people's attention, examine it then. The internet's full of people convinced that their writing is owed everyone's careful consideration, and people…

Oh yeah. I would argue a good first step towards deciding whether criticism is valid is the source. A random blog wouldn't get as much weight as, say, an article in a respected 86 year-old publication. Pedrigee's not proof, but it's not a bad first-order sort.

My mom grew up in 1950s Milwaukee, and *still* remembers the time a new superintendent from the South panicked and canceled school the first time he saw snow falling. Kids loved it, the adults were less amused.

In part because there's a few dozen bites of bones per bite of meat.