I guess you and I interpret terms like “tend” and “average” differently.

Isn’t the real hero of that story Timothy O’Shoughnnessey, the brave Boston police hiring supervisor who gave him the go-ahead?

You realize that the tweet from the Boston police department is literally virtue-signalling, right?

The most important thing that any government does is keep its citizens safe. The first civil right is the right to be safe

One of my favorite features of these kinds of stories that discuss how in general one’s musical preferences are formed in their teen years are inevitable posts from folks explaining how much new music they listen to.

I do get it, in a way. I really is easier to throw your hands up and pretend that both sides are just as bad and the reason more people don’t see that is because they aren’t as clever as you. And the fact is that Democrats far too often aren’t different enough from Republicans.

That’s a really good point. Everyone knows that if HRC had won and Democrats controlled Congress, they’d have gutted the EPA and the CFPB, put someone like Gorsuch on the SC and put a generation’s worth of conservatives on lower courts, and passed a massive tax cut for wealthy people within the first year in office.

Ham-fisted political metaphors are a hammer. All anyone with a hammer sees are nails to be driven into the coffin of reasonable discussion. Also the coffin is a vampire.

I couldn’t agree more. The Democrats were strategically wrong to flex on this in the context of the budget, and we’re lucky they didn’t blunder into some half-assed DACA quid pro quo that would have been a net loss for immigration policy.

The mistake was not not in getting the funding deal done, but in misunderstanding the leverage that DACA would provide them in the negotiations from the outset. They didn’t have a winning hand, and you can only bluff for so long when the other side can see your cards.

I remember my sophomore year of college when I said stupid shit like this all the time because I thought it made me sound smart. My mistake was that I thought lazy, knee-jerk cynicism was an acceptable substitute for thoughtfulness.

What’s not to love about listening to a pudgy drunk 31 year old whose last athletic feat was as a senior in high school scream about how the pussy should have put him in an arm bar and ended the fight right there?

It makes perfect sense! Everyone I know would rather pay money to watch White Guy With Tattoos #8 vs. Vaguely Brown Fella #18 than actually have dominant fighters they follow personally.

Not too many years ago you had cards with GSP, Silva, Velasquez, Aldo, Jones, and a bunch of other people who were legitimately awesome and you could imagine dominating for another five years. Now they’re going to sacrifice one of their champs for a 205/HW “superfight” and maybe 400,000 people will bother watching if…

To be fair, if someone is standing in a boxing stance to position themselves to throw that counter you’re talking about, they’ll get hit with that giant spin kick and be counting lights when they wake up.

High level boxers generally get to pad their records for years with cupcake fights or outright fixes. MMA, to it detriment, probably, throws good fighters into contention really early compared to that, which leads to a lot of fighters burning out before they can get established.

Yeah, but then you end up sharing the store with self-righteous doofuses competing with each other to see who can best define their morality by the things they don’t watch on tv. Everything’s a trade-off.

So how was your SuperBowl party? Pretty good?

This kind of stuff doesn’t help: