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Describing something as a hot take is one of those terms, like man-splaining and the other -splaining iterations, that has devolved into meaning “I don’t like your opinion and want to dismiss it out of hand.”

I hate Ben Smith. He’s a dick at Politico, he’s a dick at Buzzfeed.

I’m really only around one child all day, but I still completely agree with this statement.

Yep. You are kidding yourself if you think you don’t swap more germs with your kids that that by just sharing a home with them. Spit is like whatever!

“one of my parents, who will remain anonymous (it’s my mother), who once admitted that when our pacifiers fell out she’d pop them in her own mouth right quick and them stick them back in ours.”

I have been a nanny for 12 years. I have nine nieces and nephews. If you’re around a baby for ten minutes and the grossest thing that ends up in your mouth is a binky, it’s a good day.

I always thought her work was really self indulgent. I even remember thinking that about Prozac Nation when I read it as a teenager!

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Fact checking a stamp, or really anything, isn’t a terrible idea.

CAPTAIN Jean Luc Picard.

Oh goodness, stop the presses, a boring middle aged white guy is trying to lecture people about how they should feel. How unprecedented.

“Sure, I appreciate it, Dad. Giving me a football with my own autograph on it just seems a little odd.”

A Single guy, drunk, we can possibly overlook

but clearly he was sloppy drunk and not fitting of BGSU representation.

My son is 7. We recently watched the Bo Jackson 30 for 30. After that I read him most of “Bo Knows Bo” and we spent hours watching Bo Jackson highlights on YouTube.

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Somebody get this kid a VCR and a copy of This Week in Baseball’s Greatest Plays

I work for a big utility company in a technical position, and I am one of 6 women in a group of over 30 people. The majority of the company’s 23,000 employees are male, and the overwhelming majority of women in the company work in administrative support, clerical, or other non-technical roles. The culture can be

You can't be serious

But you also can’t blame Jackson for perhaps getting a little fed up with the youngster—those friendly whacks on the cap seemed to convey a little bit of “Come on, you little dummy!”—for failing to recognize the greatest two-sport athlete in history

Jim is a genius.