I think we all know how this ends: Beltre caps off a stellar, yet underrated, career with enshrinement in Cooperstown. Then at the celebration dinner, some dope makes the mistake of touching his head and Beltre gets two years for assault. Sad, really.

not to be confused with the other Bert Sugar, the classic nickname of baseball personality Prince Fielder, who is as famous for his weight as he is for his playing ability

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Ham No is the living embodiment of reading too much Hemingway.

Someone read too much Hemingway, didn’t they?

It continues to amaze me that some customers think that people who professionally make coffee drinks don’t know how to make coffee drinks. Like a barista doesn’t know how to make a cappuccino?

If the claim is just that Rousey is better, relative to her competition, than Fujii, I’d likely agree. Rousey’s that physically dominant. But in terms of skills, Fujii was an absolute technician. Like you said: just my opinion.

Isn’t she the same woman who called a trans woman MMA fighter a man and won’t agree to fight her?

The 2000-2010 Raiders/Niners decade was similarly unfun. That said: no Bills, so please accept my sincerest apologies.

The only thing bleaker was Michael Rapaport’s portrayal of an Eagles fan.

She clearly has an odd relationship with negative space.

There is definitely a non-zero percentage of false allegations where the person making the allegation does not name or describe a suspect. So no, not all of them are knowingly accusing a specific innocent person.

Eagerly awaiting all the people with poor reading comprehension who will see that Jezebel posted an essay on false allegations and immediately assume we are arguing that they are unimportant/nonexistent (despite this entire essay being written to say the opposite)

Feminists need to stop acting like false accusations don’t exist. MRA’s need to stop acting like false accusations are the rule rather than the exception. Each alleged incident should be judged by on the merits, and not through the lens of history (unless of course the alleged rapist has a history of rape). Seems…

... 2-8 percent of the reports made to the police are later proven to have been made by somebody who knew that the person they were accusing was innocent. And when you consider that many victims choose not to go to the police at all, the ratio of people who have actually experienced sexual assault to people who have…

My only problem is with the presumption of guilt, especially with some of the things we’ve seen with campus rape allegations. It seems like an over-correction (to a well known historical problem of treating victims as liars) to assume accusation=guilt. I know many progressives believe that since false allegation…

So, how do we, as feminists, handle it when we are aware of false allegations? I’ve had 2 separate events in my life where false accusations were made. 1) In college, 2 friends were in a relationship and broke up. The girl later accused the guy of rape. She admitted to several people she made it up to hurt him. 2) A…

The argument that false rape allegations are extremely rare is a misleading use of statistics.

The amount of fear and worry and hand-wringing about these false allegations is disproportionate to their actual prevalence.

In my life I have personally known 3 men who were falsely accused of rape and all 3 of their lives were catastrophically ruined, one of them committed suicide as a result.

The worst part is that even though all three of them were exonerated, that fact never makes the news, and their names stay tarnished forever…