What I wouldn’t do for two hours with a chunkier Reese Witherspoon, spilling out of pink PJs...

Okay, fine, I wouldn’t read any more Ross Douthat than I was tricked into when I clicked on this piece...

YOU continue to miss the point:

If the goal of government is just to make people feel good about the steady degradation of their communities and their lives, then yes, lip service is enough. If the goal is to actually address and hopefully alleviate issues in those communities, then lip service that makes people feel…

Nobody transitions your status from “fantastic guy... tremendous...” to “I’ve never met this person.” or “he just made copies for me...” faster than Trump. NFL head coaches have more loyalty to 6th round picks who won’t even make the practice squad.

You don’t know anything about what it means to actually care for workers, otherwise you would know transparently false bullshit when everyone else sees it. You don’t know shit about Baltimore that wasn’t in the first three seasons of The Wire.

Brilliant writing!

“Even though there’s no point in arguing whether...”

Easy, there, champ! That’s the hill you wanna die on? This is a 9 iron away from acknowledging the irrelevance of literally every sports-related website as well as a significant amount of bar and barber shop conversations... If you hate your job, find a new one!

DING! DING! DING!

If I was picking from a list of who would be most likely to scam someone in this scenario, a lawyer or a CPA would be much higher on my list than an “unqualified yahoo” and/or someone who doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree...

The NCAA didn’t like that? Why would they care?

That’s absolutely rude, and almost certainly a generational thing, but one person not being sure if another person is soundtracking their conversation with Skrillex is on a totally different scale than one person being forced to endure anyone else’s music, along with 30 other people, in a subway car...

Seriously. I could have actually died laughing when I read that!

I do this too, but I pull out my phone and pretend I’m having a conversation with someone else... but everything I’m saying is actually just a response to the other person. It takes people a while to figure it out. And then they stop thinking that’s what you’re doing. And then they get madder than hell when they…

My Mom’s phone “broke” a couple of years ago and could only be used in speaker phone mode (I think she just didn’t know how to turn it off). After about the midway point of the second day of a four day visit, I offered to buy her a new phone, on the spot. I was vibratingly mad.

So... if I’m reading this correctly, Hard Knocks is fucked if the Raiders are compelling, and fucked if the Raiders are less than compelling, and fucked if the Raiders are too over the top to be compelling because they’re being inauthentic. The last time I read something like this around here, the writer cost Kevin…

For reasons I cannot explain, I read “in the Pequod’s delivery window” as you being unwilling to have an apartment that wasn’t literally in the window of a drive-thru, so I got the privilege of laughing at my misunderstanding of what you wrote and laughing when I actually understood what you wrote!

Have you never... actually... thought about the American Dream that some people don’t wanna wake up from?

“Obviously they were trying to do a song in the style of Marvin Gaye”

No. Obviously they were trying to do a song in the style of a specific, existing, popular, well-known song by Marvin Gaye. THIS BULLSHIT is why people get sued in the first place. If you’re doing an homage to an existing song because it’s a fucking…

“The one where Robin Thicke and Pharrell lost also comes to mind.”

I’m not sure why. It’s a Marvin Gaye song that they changed the lyrics to, and Robin Thicke’s defense was basically that he was super high the whole time and if anybody was at fault, it was Pharrell. But if you feel like you could tell those songs apart…

I thank you for pointing all of those things out. I’ll try to remember all of these valuable lessons when I’m out in the real world... You’re still using “justifications” for a process that yielded a TERRIBLE outcome (remember the OP?) while rejecting a different approach - the one I brought up - as a vague suggestion…

I stand by my original comment. And now I have the benefit of confirming that you’re a pedantic, humorless shit with thin skin who is probably terrible at parties and boring in bed. So the dice landed about where I thought they would. And thank you for playing!

This may just be a difference in reading of the overall concept. To my mind, “I’ve seen this in my grocery store...” is a totally different beast than “This random grocery store in this town I’m visiting has a Miller Lite advert in the window, so I know they sell beer. Let me roll in and see what good shit they…