Particularly when the counting system in question wasn’t implemented until some centuries after the index date, and later study suggests that it was likely mis-established by three or four years. It’s arbitrary.

Nobody cares where the zero point was. People care about, and will ever celebrate, the odometer rolling over.

It’s the “can” that makes it parse as an opt-in. It’s a fair and reasonable interpretation of Biden’s statement.

He already has money. Maybe he wants a ring, and knew there was no way the Steelers would ever trade him to the Pats?

This one makes me crazy. Hey Ballmer, maybe you should follow the example of basically every other OS and use “-” to denote command line switches so that “/” will still be available as a path delimiter whenever you finally get around to implementing a hierarchical filesystem, but no, you’ve gotta make bad design…

Laser focused.

Anarchy reigns.

I’m a fewer purist as well, but I fear we pedants are losing this front.

I will now never not hear these lyrics.

It’s like nobody’s every seen a Disney negotiation before. Nobody 800-pound-gorillas and wins like the mouse.

Megan, I suspect I speak for many when I say we will miss you, your firm resolve in the face of corporate fuckery, and your horrible food takes around these parts. Thank you for fighting the good fight.

“cheese”

I don’t know how I missed this before. It’s beautiful.

All signs absolutely point to that -- “laser focused on sports,” indeed. I sincerely hope our lovelies regroup somewhere else to carry on after G/O Media finishes choking everything good out of this operation.

“Curt says he was given an order from the commander-in-chief to make sure people are patriotic,” Jasper said.

I don’t see “collusion” anywhere in his tweet. He’s abiding by the letter of the settlement, while also effectively communicating the reality of the situation, which strikes me as working the (broken) system pretty effectively.

He’s just gonna fly drive 400 miles back to the Oakland one, like he does with his dumb haircut

Gruden’s got 8 years, 23 weeks left on his contract.

... even I think taxing them at 99 percent is onerous. Tax the fuck out of them, but leave them enough dough to hold lavish fuck parties and go spearfishing on private islands and what not.

Criticizing some policies of the current government of Israel does not constitute an attack on an ethnicity, no matter how often you insist on repeating the false equivalence.