But how much of that need to lie and believe he isn’t what he is rooted in internalized homophobia? If he could admit to himself and everyone else that he was gay and that it was okay, and find himself accepted, perhaps some of that would have been nipped in the bud. I know high-functioning narcissists who aren’t…

It’s startling how many of these true crime stories boil down to something like that - shame that becomes violence, some part of themselves they can only express in a twisted, violent way because if it were positive they would have to really come to terms with it. It’s not the only thing at play obviously, usually…

“Although I got zero points for my attempt at the triple axel, in my mind I went for it”

Their early work was a little too new wave for Ted’s tastes, but when Sports came out in ‘83, he thinks they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to…

Nick Offerman is also exceedingly polite.

Watched this with girlfriends parents and her brother and his wife. All of them NRA, trumptards, except my GF. They kept yelling trumpublican and nra talking points every time a kid would speak. Was brutal. All were in agrreement....”If I had a gun I would’ve shot him in a second.” “Need more guns in school!”

1) Later Diane was a monster, and I sort of wonder whether the writers didn’t do it to spite Long.

I have a biracial child and I raised him not to refer to his friends as “his niggas.” This strikes me kind of the same way.

When you woke up this morning, did you think of yourself as someone who would call the teenaged survivor of a mass shooting a liar on the internet, or are you surprised to learn that about yourself?

His dad (my wife’s grandfather) has about $1m saved up, of course that will be spent down on upcoming medical expenses and then split 5 ways but that is what he is banking on. He has no idea how much they need and thinks anything over $100,000 will be enough, which is ridiculous. They still have 25 years or so of…

I dig this list. Personally, I’m a fan of Herbert Hoover. He probably gets the worst shrift from history of any president. In the ‘32 campaigns, the argument between him and FDR was that FDR’s plan didn’t do enough (which was true). It’s so ironic that we forget this, but FDR didn’t campaign on a platform of “spend a…

The subtext is obvious but it’s worth spelling out that “family-friendly” here is a dogwhistle for “you won’t have to explain to your kids that a professional athlete is upset that unarmed black people are getting murdered by police, in the very unlikely event they even noticed the brief protest to begin with”. Christ.

You can even pretty easily map the characters to the Wizard of Oz as well. Chidi is clearly the cowardly lion, Eleanor is Dorothy, Jason’s the scarecrow (he certainly needs a brain), and Tahani’d be the Tin man (all her good deeds having lacked heart, after all)

since she wasn’t involved in the attack

You’re in the wrong thread, but I’m sorry the Star Wars movie had too many girls in it.

How about we don’t spend Martin Luther King Day talking about websites by white supremacists?

Because most sane administrations don’t interfere with the FBI, and don’t want to abuse their power to influence elections.

They were pretty stoked on 11/8/2016.

At this point Sam and Diane would be more “can they or can’t they” than “will they or won’t they”