Frats and sororities get their insurance through the national chapters. They do this because private insurers won’t touch them - they’re literally only one step better than toxic waste transport companies in terms of insurance risk.

If this chapter can’t line up the insurance, Yale ought to revoke any recognition of…

The entire event is a joke. The WHCA gets most of its annual revenue from this $3,000 / plate dinner. Eight years ago, about 60% of their revenue went to scholarships, as of recent filings, it’s down to about 21%. It’s a level of shameless self-importance that even the Oscars have trouble matching.

I did enjoy Bob…

It thought it was great, too. And I think he went easy on them. Blitzer is like a news matre d’, Don Lemon is awful, and nearly to a person CNN, MSNBC, and Fox are staffed by useless tools.

The only time these assholes have any chance of being uncomfortble during a normal year is this event. So it’s great when the…

I’m not a huge fan of the blues either - but it’s because they don’t require more force to press them down. They’re still not as good for typing as actual buckling spring keyboards like the old model M or the Unicomp models.

I’m not a huge fan of the blues either - but it’s because they don’t require more force to press them down. They’re…

I’m glad they eventually showed the animal-themed parking map. I couldn’t figure out the “Giraffe” “Rooster” “Bear” sign combo around the 3:30 mark.

My wife had this done a year after we got married. She’s not quite 5' 2", and was a similar size. She’d been uncomfortable as long as I’d known her - backaches, neckaches, bra straps cutting into her shoulders, etc. After the procedure, it was fantastic - she felt SO much better.

My wife teaches high school photography, among other things. She’s got tenure and 15 years of seniority. And still, she flips through photography books, says “Hey, that’s great for my classroom” and finds an abstract Brandt nude or a fairly tame Mapplethorpe, and it quickly turns into “Nope! Can’t use that as a…

They didn’t need to leave an empty seat for Elijah. Rubio’s doesn’t count as occupied, as he’s an empty suit.

I’d agree, but I also think there’s an argument to be made in favor of strategic/defensive voting, and Sarandon is explicitly rejecting that, and actually seems to be adopting the “hey, whatever, if the worst Republican becomes president, the revolution happens sooner!” philosophy. That’s just juvenile.

He’s now my go-to example of the “Uncanny Valley” istead of the creepy Tom Hanks conductor from “Polar Express”.

I have a friend from college who is an ARDENT Sanders supporter. Refers to Hillary Clinton as “$hillary”, the whole thing. It’s sort of weird, seeing a progressive essentially parrot all the stuff that right-wing talk radio has been saying about Hillary Clinton for years.

She flat out can’t understand why various…

I’m on Team Messing here. After all, no matter how bad things get, Susan Sarandon will do just fine, and will never have to truly live with the consequences of the “explosion” she spoke so fondly of.

Sarandon actually seemed to embrace the whole “heightening the contradicitons” worldview during the MSNBC. It arguably…

Well, look at it this way. His delusion allows him to feel like HE’S the one being victimized by the Sandy Hook shooting - since it was “fake” in order for the government to “take his guns”.

There’s an intense need on the part of some pretty unpersecuted people to feel persecuted.

Let’s require drug tests in order to take advantage of certain tax deductions!

When the “superdelegates” put a candidate that didn’t have the most primary votes cast for him/her over the top, wake me. Otherwise, who cares?

The current FiveThirtyEight projection is that Clinton will have about 4 million more primary votes cast for her than Sanders will by the end of the process. If that holds,…

My wife and I both use top sheets - but we hate fighting over the sheets. So we have a queen bed, and we get full-sized top sheets and blankets so we don’t have to share. We usually do a top sheet / cotton blanket / wool blanket arrangement.

Then again, we use flannel sheets year round because we find we don’t stick…

“New York” is a dog-whistle to white, Christian, socially conservative voters in large parts of the county. The listener gets to fill in their own prejudice(s) of choice. It’s the other side of the “Real America” type rhetoric that Palin was so fond of.

As opposed to Jesse Jackson. Who pretty much DID call New York…

Oh, yeah, it would have to be written JUST right.

Shade would have been them explaining what a magazine publisher and a magazine were, as if someone might never have heard of such a thing before. And, as I think about it, would have been pretty damn funny.

Compared to Genghis Khan, Trump won’t have nearly the number of descendants. Almost “loser” territory by comparison. I wonder how we let him know that - it might give him a new bizarre thing to fixate on instead of him being defensive and weird about his hands.