Pretending all that all of this isn’t “normal” is to spit on the people who risked everything to advance society enough that we would forget that violence, disease and the subjugation of certain categories of people *is* normal. A world where those things are not normal was fought for, and needs to be continually…

Of all the possible tones one could take, *this* topic, at *this* time was when you pull out self-impressed-sarcasm. Great job.

If you can imagine a situation where Durant’s been arrested in Russia during a proxy war, I’m sure you can imagine what the US would do to get him out. Share your ideas, I’m sure everyone would love to hear them.

Ukraine did not try to join in 2008. Merkel (and many others) decided to not offer them a plan to join at that time, where Bush had wanted to do so. They’d made no formal application to join. And, again, hypotheticals being another form of choose-your-own-adventure, offering that action plan could well have hastened…

Ukraine would have needed to have applied to NATO to have been admitted. They did not. There is no way to know that responding “more forcefully,” whatever that means, to the Crimea annexation would have prevented the current situation: it might have just led to this exact situation earlier, when the Ukraine military…

If they are, per the article, categorizing “Disney adults” as any type of cult, then they’re degrading the word to meaninglessness, like a hammer deciding that what kind of nail it’s hitting: “this is a finishing nail, this is a framing nail, and this is a human-opposable-digit-nail...”

No they didn’t my charming friend. They said no one asked him, they said it was fat phobic, and they noted that he received enough pushback that he fled the platform with his tail between his legs. Nowhere did they even hint that he didn’t have the right to make an ass of himself in public. Hell, they’ll even provide…

“He has a right to do so” said the wise man, stroking his chin, in response to no one arguing the contrary. Good work.

To be fair, Sports Illustrated has been making attempts to be interesting with these covers for a while now. I can see why Pederson feel affronted by that.

“These glaring disparities have been made all the more stark by the difference between the U.S. men’s and women’s teams World Cup records: The USWNT has won the top prize four times since the first Women’s World Cup was held in 1991.”

This must be that anti-comedy I’ve been hearing so much about. Gotta say, doesn’t seem worth the effort.

“Youth activists are speaking out on social media about the sustainability of revoking teen downtown activity, instead of providing fun, contained alternatives in the park area like block parties, anti-violence programs, and movies in the park.”

Oh my god, I liked your comment as well. Cats and dogs, lying down together.

“Bring her home”: you had several weeks since writing your last piece on this to say how this might be accomplished, and came up with... (scans article again) nothing. Not a practicable pay structure for the WNBA, not a path forward for the State Department, not a reasonable action that any individual reading this…

I can clear it up for you: There is no way there is a policy written in the way he describes, because such a policy is unenforceable. He’s already being extremely slippery in how he’s presenting his arguments, which are entirely pitched against straw men, and misleading with his facts. It’s a troll.

It doesn’t bother me at all that people that group together to achieve certain political objectives tend to agree with one another on core moral issues.

“The Liberals in Canada (which are the closest thing we have to center left) will boot party members for being anti-abortion.”

There’s nothing here, though I imagine it must sting that Jezebel has faded from relevance such that it longer merits receiving the PR that Vice somehow still does?

It’s not just basic constitutional concepts, it’s basic word use. The headline refers to Charles’ “constituents” like he’s a backbench MP, rather than his (much as I gag on the word) subjects. The latter is both more accurate and would better convey the disconnect the author was going for in the first place.

It even says *in the article you linked to* that the government wrote his speech and that the “optics” are traditional and not really Charles’ to change.