Yes. His response when Trump denied WaPo reporters press credentials at his rallys in retaliation for their reporting gave me hope that the free press was alive and kicking. I wonder how many people realize that this is the same guy who presided over the exposure of the Catholic Church’s pedophile cover up at the…

Please don’t let this incident change your opinion of the WaPo as a source of important, needed, journalism. It is a great publication and one of the few that genuinely investigated and reported on Trump during the election. This was stupid and awful, but no one in the newsroom was involved in any of these decisions.…

So serious! And I’ve bitched about way dumber shit than this, but thank you, I do try.

This! He’s great but I can’t deal with people like this. I know people who are like this in my real life and I always wind up feeling like it’s fake, somehow. I hope/assume that LMM is not like this all the time because can you imagine if this was your best friend or brother or something and he was always staring at…

Ugh, no thank you. I think LMM is mega-talented and Hamilton is rightfully lauded, but that look on his face, and his general “aw shucks, me? thanks, guys, i’m so lucky for the opportunity!” is too much for me. By the end of his SNL monologue I really, really wanted someone to pie him in the face and make fun of his…

Performance is not automatically attention-seeking. I perform because I love telling stories, and because performance is a way to create a connection and a conversation with other people. I love expression and the feedback I get from an audience. It feels like a fundamental part of being alive to me.

Depends. If the person is my student, I correct them and teach them my technique (I don’t row, but I’m applying this to my own life). If they aren’t my student but they are doing something that could get themselves or someone else hurt, or damage equipment, I would mention it to the gym staff so they can handle. But…

I did a variation of a kipping pull-up for a while until I got my standard pull up (with a controlled leg kick and a pull, not what they are showing here with the swinging motion). It helped me understand how tight I needed to keep my entire body for a pull-up (many people try to do pull-ups without engaging their…

You should assume that any pop culture that is popular enough to, say, be featured on network news, has fans that are voting for Trump. Especially when you consider how many folks are super low-information voters who pretty much just vote for the party they and their parents have always voted for without putting much…

According to Ford in last night’s episode, the androids started passing the Turing test way back when he and Arnold were working on them, but Arnold wanted to push them further. I assume what this means is that while the androids demonstrated intelligence that could not be distinguished from a human (thus passing the…

I am so sorry. I wish there was some way to help you.

Ugh, Kentucky. It’s the worst things about Ohio combined with the worst things about the South. They make good bourbon there but then they don’t let people drink it because of Jesus. Kentucky sucks. Move the derby somewhere better.

Likely not. But knowing that is completely separate from my sincere baseball hopes.

As a Nats fan, I agree with everything said here and still, quixotically, believe Espinosa has the ability to deliver a clutch homer tonight to help the team advance to the NLCS for the first time.

In a way, it’s nice to know that even professional football players get performance reviews with weird non-performance-related assessments like “you smile too much in meetings” or “people don’t get the sense you care about the new platform rollout enough.”

These tips bring up some interesting issues, but I wouldn’t say this is how you “keep your friendships strong.” Instead, this is three examples of people being inappropriate about money, and how to deal with it if you’re the person with more money. I have lots of friends who make more than me, and I never say “it must…

This is delightful and actually very kind to Trump. No body shaming or veiled criticism — just an honest assessment of how, with a little more attention paid to details and outside perspectives, Donald could be more presentable and pleasing to the eye.

Except it’s incredibly unlikely that umps, who literally never call out hitters for failing to avoid an HBP, will suddenly magically start doing it. I mean, maybe if it happens again in a high profile game where the pitch is clearly a strike. Maybe! But odds are so slim. He will continue to get away with this. The…

He’s ruined nothing. People have been noticing this for years and nothing happens because you can always present several arguments to back him up.

“Attempt to avoid” requires the ump to make a judgment call about whether a batter intended to get out of the way of the pitch. Batters pretty much always move away from the ball in some way if it comes at them, though some, like Espinosa, will do it a little late or in such a way that the ball may still graze them.…