you do realize that is the law. Nearly every state and federal officeholder is prohibited from accepting gifts, with exceptions from friends and family. But they are super prohibited from accepting gifts from lobbyists no exception. And nearly every state defines lobbying as any activity meant to influence legislation.

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yeah i think thats a standard, unforeseeable, adult trespasser situation. The factor here in all of this is foreseeability. You may have liability if it is an elderly lady with dementia who wanders in all the time, but you still don’t lock the door, or if you left him on a porch with a gate that you knew was iffy. You…

ummm so the insurance company came over and said “kill the dog” or did they just refuse to insure your parents until the dog was removed?

I’m going to guess that there where non-lethal options like not using that insurance company or giving the dog away

have some empathy. clearly the guy is working through it the best he can, and race is a difficult conversation for a lot of people

dont we all want a future without theatres? Isn’t a home theatre with a giant screen in your own home a luxury? And isn’t the path of civilization and progress for things that were once luxuries to become available to all as technology progresses (e.g., showers, cars, televisions...)

just a little more than half of it was in the air. Chris Kluwe will tell you that it isnt that impressive (once he’s done organizing his comic books)

so to walk 26.2 miles takes your body to the edge?
Because thats basically what we’re talking about. Not folks who are pushing themselves. People run it at 15 min / mile pace .

But that misses the point anyway. It’s not about hard vs not hard. It’s about competing vs just doing it. I’m not saying its not even hard, but…

no man, the common principle in that and Steve Jones comment about the 25 minute 5k is the comparison of actually competing in a sport versus just going through the motions poorly.

Yeah it takes training to compete in a marathon. i think the major premise in what steve jones is saying is that these people don’t compete, they just trod along.

dont think youd really call yourself a golfer either if you went out 3 times a year and shot a 125 on 18 at the municipal course. your metaphors kind of just prove his point

I might have painted it with a broad brush in my first comment, but that was to make a point. The reality is that too many parents watch kids sports not out of the sense that you are talking about. they watch it to have a competition of who is the best parent and live through the kids. Even parents with a positive…

That’s a false dilemma. Obviously the ideal is that parents can just let kids be kids and enjoy the game.

theres something so fundamentally weird about watching kids sports in the first place. If it’s for the kids own good, let them have an empty field with their coach. If its for your own entertainment then keep doing what were doing now

So when did Wendy have her surgery?

why didn’t the first receiver just punt it out of bounds?

saw it in a CFB game before, but I’m also a rules nerd. My friends were really impressed when I explained to them why the Matt Jones fumble a couple of weeks ago was a touchback

whats going on with that host’s shoulder?

probably backwards. Cool Pope is like “Yeah that Kim Davis lady is so holy,” and Vatican advisors are facepalming like “Fuck this is going to mess up the recruitment effort in USA and all our attempts to package this pope as cool...”

I think it’s equally possible that Cool Pope’s advisors are the ones pushing the “Cool Pope” motif (catholic rolls are down, worldwide effort to get catholics to “come home”) and he’s not 100% down. HE’s still pro-life, still anti-equal marriage, and doesnt get why hanging out with Kim Davis is bad PR. All of the…

whats the odds on Kanye going off script and raising hell about Bernie getting jobbed by the DNC?