Down to the very minute. Good job, all. 

You say “The latter doesn’t guarantee the former” as if this is a binary thing, and not a scale. I agree, the cost of healthcare is high due to at least two key elements of the healthcare industry, insurance and care/pharma costs. Taking high profit margins out of only one of those elements does not solve the entire…

That’s a fair point, I was being a fuddy duddy. 

In college, I worked at Insomnia Cookies in East Lansing. This was back in 2009-ish, so prior to their major expansion and management was incredibly relaxed. During the summer, I wouldn’t have to come in until the first delivery order came in, so I would sit poolside while on the clock most days between noon and 3,…

I think we have to disqualify jobs that involve tipping beyond the minimum wage. I’d imagine on a busy summer weekend day, you’d clean up pretty well monetarily, right? Feels like cheating in this thought experiment.

This is high art.

That’s truly the most generous defense (which is still bad!), but I don’t think that could possibly be his opinion from the outset. He said that Morey wasn’t “educated about the topic at hand”, which speaks exclusively to the content and not simply the choice to speak out. His backpedaling doesn’t check out for me. 

I will Venmo you 50 dollars if you can somehow prove that you’re primarily a fan of a team other than the Green Bay Packers. Ticket stubs, merch, whatever you got. 

It’s also perfectly designed to focus on the one bad thing in a sea of good things. In these examples, literally thousands of people are agreeing with her, and she’s spending time replying to the handful of people that don’t. As a long time user of the internet, it has only shown us the worst of ourselves.

For real. Every President of the modern era has had war crimes likely committed under their administration, so we should have called her out for kicking it with the Obamas and Clintons as well. Also, there are a lot of arms lengths between a President and their Secretary of Defense, so there’s plausible deniability to…

You can’t swing a pick ax with those nails, are you nuts?

Yep. He was saying the right thing, he just took too many words or too little punctuation to get there. It could’ve been clearer.

I have a mid-week work conference in Atlanta in late November, so please oh please let that whole city get swallowed in the next 6 weeks. 

Maybe you’ve just got an alphabet thing?

Watching Stephen A. Smith choose to have an opinion and immediately begin shouting about it in less than 3 seconds is high theater.  I hope he stays on TV forever. 

The prevailing wisdom* is that starting a rookie QB in a position where they cannot have a chance is going to do more harm that good. Putting him out there to get crushed when they’re hoping he’s their franchise seems like a tough way to start his career. Not sure that’s offset by the benefit of giving him game reps…

I played craps at Motor City Casino recently with my grandma on my left and a man with his jaw wired shut on my right.  It’s truly a confluence of culture.

-1 Baked Alaska that I’ve slammed into the bin.

No one gets hit at Comerica because no one is there. It’s safest for all involved. 

I’m with you on the fact that it’s not the same if this happens to a man as if this happens to a woman, and don’t think it’s a hypocrisy argument that should be made. Reposting someone caught nude in a video against their will doesn’t seem like great practice. I also realize this isn’t equivalent, but we roasted Dave…