Uh, saying no doesn’t make your opinion some kind of edict. At least the OP offered an anecdotal scenario as justification.

Perhaps we are still cynical because we are talked about in the past tense ;)

I stopped reading for like 10 minutes to just stare at this food porn.

Groton, Ct is the home of Electric Boat Corporation, who build the things. I’m guessing that’s why.

Some related thoughts:

Is there a Madden tournament? I think ESPN should show that just to cause all the twitter trolls to start spluttering and trying to rationalize.

Ok:

This was extremely well said. +1 for saving me from doing it, albeit less eloquently.

This was sort of my takeaway from that letter too - the problems there may be environmental so to speak, and not organic to the relationship. My wife and I love each other, and love to be together, but living in a one-bedroom like that is really tough, and would get on anyone’s nerves. Witness how much better things…

I think it speaks to perceptions: That person you think you are ‘lower’ than, actually sees you as an equal, at least, or the deed wouldn’t be happening.

I’d like to drop some random thoughts into the whole ‘leagues’ discussion, so do with them what you will:

You should not have posted this - it was for your eyes only.

I suspect the reason the M-B persists is that it is cheap and readily available, making it useful both to academics (for classroom demonstrations of survey proctoring, research design, etc.) and to authors of self-help and career choice voodoo manuals who need to add legitimacy.

Dude - what the hell?

I can tell you from exact experience, a gaggle of MBA and Macc students only sound slightly more mature about it.

I think some people are predisposed to see conspiracy or feel marginalized, which is not to say those things don’t happen, to them and others, merely that it may make it harder for them to accept help when it confounds their confirmation biases.

1,000x this. The pain of mental illness can be incapacitating, all the more so because by its nature it impedes the desire of the sufferer to get better, by robbing agency.

I love the idea of the UN, but they remind me of so many sea lions sitting on rocks braying and barking at each other to no real end. I mean this with all sincerity - is there a way to motivate them to take substantive (and enduring) action?

I agree with like 90% of what you are saying. I just think that trying to secure the oilfields would result in the same loss of blood and treasure, and be another form of corporate welfare for the American companies pulling the oil out, while at the same time losing the (admittedly half-assed) halo of "nation…

I really genuinely understand this sentiment, but if we really did that, it would just cause them to all galvanize against us, kill our soldiers, and cost us a fortune. Then after public opinion turned, and we left, all the billions we had spent would fall to ruin as the extremists and warlords played king of the…