You're an idiot.

A white player who grew up poor and black? There is no such thing as a "similarly situated" white player, because there isn't a white person in this country who knows what it's like to grow up poor and black.

Sherman DID, however, reference a white player who actually did something himself: Riley Cooper. Cooper gets…

I've never understood what the purpose of destroying WTC 7 would have been: destroying evidence? There are much easier, quieter ways to destroy evidence than leveling an entire fucking skyscraper.

I think the "teaching your 7-year-old daughter that pushing a woman is acceptable behavior" part can be tied for the worst part.

Exactly. She's been "Aunt Robin" the whole show.

Some dads, like some moms, like some people, are bad parents. The problem is that we don't usually hear stories about moms and dads who didn't act badly, because those stories are boring.

I found out when I was older that my grandmother was a fat-shamer, but my mother and father wouldn't allow that shit in their…

"are you ready to turn your back on ol' Bourbon"

Of course words change. The figurative use of literally - by the way, does anyone really think that people are confused about the word's core meaning? - is fine by me, for example, because it's used to give emphasis and a sense of absurdity to a comment; that is to say, the contrast between its literal meaning and…

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…