The trouble is that a lot of the Cubs fans still wallow in this infantile goo of sentimentality, superstition, and forced fatalism. At least finally a fair portion of them have outgrown it and appreciate their team because it is good and has a great shot at winning.

You can still arrest someone for being disorderly (and/or drunk) if it is not based on the content of his speech.

Associate generally means tenure. Assistant—not tenure.

I’m totally pro-choice, but I totally hate that “I personally oppose abortion but support it being legal, basically on demand.” Just what is it you oppose about it?

Truly. He has rightly been hailed as a political genius—but he is simply terrible when campaigning for her. First time around, he basically called Obama an uppity Negro.

Probably because the prosecution felt it wasn’t a case in which they could prevail. Which is why she should not be Jane Doe. It’s a civil case.

I don’t know—speed and efficiency? Reminds me that when the Twins played in the old Bloomington stadium, the vendors lugged around the beer in long-necked bottles—the real returnable (and heavy) ones—which were common in Minnesota then. I think they poured them into cups, but still had to haul those heavy cases.

My bank doesn’t have glass partitions

The random street fights are generally between two people who want to fight. This was one guy assaulting someone by surprise, and the other guy responding.

This dressing up of shoving an object into someone’s face as a “political act” and a harmless one because, hey, pie throwing, is absurd. It’s met with amusement because of who got pied in the face. If it had been Elizabeth Warren, these comments would be lit up with dimestore lawyers flashing “that’s assault!” Hit…

SJWs from Gawker come here desperate for a fix of agitprop.

I read that to mean the team as an entity had that point of view. The article states only that some Seahawks players would like to see that happen.

Think of what these apologists would say if it was Elizabeth Warren taking a “time honored” blow to the face.

Apart from the staleness and smugness of your quip, does it really take an advanced education and superior reading skills to determine that if you hit someone in the face with something, you might face some hitting back? Have more faith in the wisdom of the proletariat.

Yeah, all these would-be adjudicators of how to respond to an assault to the face can’t seem to grasp the fact that a prosecutor wouldn’t take this because a jury would not side with the person committing the assault in the first place. There would be medical witness testifying that having anything shoved into your…

I love all the rules being posited here for the “appropriate response” to having a pie shoved in your face without warning. Let a prosecutor or jury decide. First way not to get punched in the face: Don’t hit a person in the face, with a pie or anything else.

Physically harmless? Let me shove a plate full of stuff into your eyes and let you take your chances. This wasn’t some slapstick pie-throwing. You hit someone in the face; expect to be hit back.

On the other hand will coaches start realizing that starting yardage running out of the end zone is so often short of the 25 that they will issue blanket command to take a knee if ball is kicked to the end zone. Right now a lot of guys are running it out.

Sort of like Sully’s wife in his movie. Except she’s mostly complaining and nagging about the media and money and everything else.

Pulling the chain taut and planting the forward stick to make a dramatic determination of whether the balls nose is past the stick is a ridiculous display of false precision, because it totally is a matter of where they guy with the back stick plants it after trotting out with it. It would be just as precise merely to…