Show me that the middle class is shrinking at all.  It’s certainly nowhere close to disappearing.  

This is a much more balanced take on the issue than the article. Can’t we just acknowledge that the gig economy creates a new set of challenges to the established legal definitions of employees and contractors?

Counterpoint: This doesn’t mean anything. It’s a human being who willfully took a job for agreed upon compensation, and then when the pros and cons of employment tilted in the other direction the guy decided not to do the job anymore.

Its "motherfucker".  One word.

I don’t have time to verify this crap, but here’s a 5-year old piece on just how awful Fenech is:

The difference between a tractor and a mower is that a tractor is used in a field while a mower is used on a lawn.  “Lawn tractor” is strictly used to make suburban middle-aged men feel less like a pussy.

This is absolutely terrifying. If you’ve ever driven one of these styles of tractors stock and had the opportunity to open it up on a highway while driving between fields, you’ll know that 20 mph feels like Mach 3.  You can barely control them.  The shocks have you bouncing everywhere and the steering is awful.  

There is no single number that perfectly captures a business. The revenue metric is just another metric, and it’s not a bad metric to look at when trying to answer whether there is sufficient demand for your product.

One point missing from your comment is that refs are quite often arrogant, egotistical jackasses. I’m sure that’s not you, based on your reasoned and even-keeled response to an article that wasn’t aimed at you at all.

There is absolutely no part of Illinois in the upper midwest.  Their application was rejected.

This really is a tough social issue. I don’t agree with Lauren’s argument here, which is that trans athletes lose sometimes so no one should feel like it’s unfair when they win.

Hi Abatnia, I guess I’m responding more to your approach. The way I read your comment, you’re assuming bad intent from the author. If you want to be passionate about educating people about the history of the phrase ‘eskimo’ or whatever made you go off, then, ya know, do yer thing. (I didn’t even see the version of the…

Somehow I ended up on this article and upon reaching the end I thought to myself “nice, a jezebel article not taking itself too seriously”.....and then I read the first comment.  That’s more like what I was expecting.  Never change, Abatnia.  

I am part of the Forrester 3% club. It’s not fun to drive by any stretch, but it does keep me more entertained / occupied. I like manuals.

2 thoughts on your post:

Let’s at least make this a symmetrical criticism of demographics - if ESPN is keeping “old whites” happy, it is at the cost of making “young, naive, pitch fork wielding, smug, social justice whites” unhappy.

What a strange reality - we can give the exit velocity to the nearest tenth of a mph, but we’re left to estimate just how far the ball went and debate the accuracy of the estimate.  One of those is so much easier to measure than the other.....

We shouldn’t equate using a drug with being addicted. The owners’ logic for having such a strong penalty against drugs of abuse is to make players think twice before attending dangerous party scenes. There’s the direct danger to the players (Len Bias) and the brand danger (DUIs, fights, domestic abuse, sexual assault,…

I mean, yeah it didn’t work.  But it wasn’t embarrassing that it didn’t work.  There was probably a 90% chance of failure when Buehrle pulled it off a few years ago....he just got lucky / was better at a ridiculous skill.

I would take Johnny Miller and *fill in the blank* over the current crew.  Yeah, Joe Morgan sucked.  Johnny was amazing.