The common thread appears to be a too-healthy regard for one’s own intelligence.

“Many of Stewart’s enemies figured that out long ago: Carlson’s 2003 book Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites, which had predicted the demise of Crossfire, has a much more realistic view of the cable-news biz, where fame-humping guests and fake experts are compensated with nothing but green-room coffee. It’s an…

Obligatory.

Everyone knows John Boehner is the True Detective. The crying, the drinking, the sense of utter futility.

This is all irrelevant, because the owner screamed in the face of a 21-month-old kid. She does not deny that, at all.

Scream at the parents? Sure, we can debate that. Kick them out? Sure, we can debate that. I’d be much more sympathetic to the owner in both of those instances.

However: yelling in a not-yet-two-year-old…

You should maybe listen to Nicki’s music before you say more dumb shit.

It’s probably well within any restaurant’s power to ban outside food for health code reasons (i.e., you don’t want potential vectors for foodbourne illnesses coming it) if for no other reason.

90 feet is home plate to first base. It’s not like they were out of sight.

Or he could be dead, in jail, live in a foreign country, or otherwise be unable to help.

Given that the Joker fetishizes his clown-like face (whether that’s due to a chemical bath, makeup, or whatever version of the character is in play), I don’t think that last sentence is correct at all.

Scratching my head at how being “fearful of inundation” is distinguishable from possessing “racial animus.”

“you can still keep a 2-year-old in a crib”

Tell that to my eldest, who was 3’3” at her 2-year checkup. Haven’t had a peaceful bedtime in months.

If she hadn’t smiled, people would be calling her an icy bitch.

If she had shown the emotions she was probably feeling, people would be calling her unprofessional.

Because she smiled in a way people find not sad enough, they’re calling her heartless.

Just cut her some damn slack. She maintained professionalism in a tough…

So many wasted words. So many cul-de-sacs. So much SERIOUS patting-self-on-back.

Mostly: So much, “I, the enlightened liberal white person, am the real victim of this.”

Exactly. Those were King v. Burwell phrases.

That doesn’t mean his dissent in Obergefell was anything other than railing against the strawman of a “new right,” though.

Glad to be of help. Looking forward to “This GMU Professor’s Food Blog Reads Like a Manual For Assholes.”

FTR, I have no personal vendetta against Cowan. I stumbled across his food blog a few years ago while looking for restaurants in the DC area, and the sheer dickosity of it stuck with me.

Right. “Please make it Thai style/home style/like you’d make it for a Thai person” is not hard to say, and you don’t have to “speak sternly” to do it. He’s a garbage person.

Who the fuck cares if someone takes up two spaces?

People who fight against the descent of American society into a full-on celebration of useless, selfish, vainglorious pricks.

Mind you[r] own business and get a life.

You get a fucking life; you’re the one taking up two spaces like a fucking toddler throwing a fit about…

It’s not because he doesn’t like Seth MacFarlane as a person. He thinks his humor is bad and overrated and that his movies reflect that.

By your logic, no one should ever review an Uwe Boll film.

Maybe because these guys are professional film writers or something.