Like I said, it's fine for informal usage, and maybe this is informal usage, but as a writer, why go out of your way to use the informal, opposite-meaning-to-the-real-meaning "nonplussed"? It's not a common-usage word - precisely because people don't know what it means - so what's the point?

Maybe you should understand that issuing a long quote about how you feel about the situation (the "I'm shocked" bit is the end of a long quote by Young, another piece of which also is quoted in the article) is not being "nonplussed," which contains within it the concept that someone is so taken aback as to be rendered…

You know that helping Native Americans and changing the name aren't mutually exclusive, right? The gross part is not that Snyder's helping; it's that he's helping only out of a desire to buy off people who complain about the name. It's, in effect, part bribe and part insulation tactic.

Kids only understand things in the context they're given. The argument you're promulgating could just as easily work for any racist slur. Pretty sure the Greatest Generation didn't bat an eye at the word "nigger" when they were kids, but that doesn't mean it's not racist.

Or the word "nonplussed"? I know that, informally, people just go ahead and use it to mean "unperturbed" - even though it means the exact fucking opposite - but when you write for a living, you should do better.

Last clarification: I contend that the fact that an owner's personal finances are wholly separate from the corporation's finances - which they are when you structure your business as a corporation - means the corporation, not the owner, is paying for it. Similarly, the corporation, not the owner, owns the business's…

Now you're just deliberately taking me out of context. Yes, the ACA applies to all businesses with more than 50 employees. No, what size your business is has no bearing on how you may incorporate. My quote was a response to your assertion that sole proprietorships do not qualify for the benefits of incorporation. …

Size doesn't matter; how you're incorporated matters. A sole proprietor can incorporate. An LLC, depending on state shield laws, can offer a huge amount of protection to the proprietor. Straw men. AGAIN.

"When you're talking about a company that you own and you bled for, you absolutely consider the financial health…

You in fact DO say, when you're incorporated, that the company makes decisions separately from the person. That is the entire point of the legal fiction - that the corporation's decisions have ramifications only for the corporation's assets. That "I'm not John Smith right now" bit you're doing there, that you think…

The family does not pay for it. The corporation pays for it. Their funds and the corporation's funds should at no point be commingled. That is the way a corporation works.

Then you ought to be on the other side of this issue. It's Hobby Lobby whose wants are attempting to override the right of others, because federal law sides with those seeking birth control, and no court has ever recognized the kind of right Hobby Lobby is attempting to claim here.

Let me repeat: NO COURT HAS EVER…

Temp work is a different flavor of IC than what you were proposing Christian Scientists do, above, but that's not even the point (because Hobby Lobby could do the same, no, so then why are we here?).

The problem with your first flippant response is that it ignores the import of the immediate case (and, in fact, you've…

Oh, and as for your "independent contractor" example, if Hobby Lobby was a Christian Science outfit, they'd have a rough time staffing their store with independent contractors. See, ICs get to pick their own hours. They get to perform the work as they see fit. The employer only gets to dictate the result and…

The private jet example was (obviously) an extreme version of the dumb argument you're promulgating: namely, that "people are free to go do [x] if they don't like [y]," which is empirically true and usually practically unworkable or onerous. See also: "if you don't like how your low-paying retail job exploits you,…

Hooray for Deliberately Obtuse Man!

The main point is precisely that the corporation, Hobby Lobby, is paying for the plan. The owners are not paying for the plan - just like Hobby Lobby, not the owners, would be liable if a customer were injured in their store - and so their viewpoints mean bupkis.

"People who work for hobby lobby could always take birth control and have abortion and whatever."

I have a weakness for the Steak, Egg, and Cheese. It's the least healthful thing on the menu, I feel awful about myself when I eat one...and yet.

This is awful.