I mean, this is a relatively short blog post about a specific comment that Shields made, not a complete breakdown of the exploitation she suffered throughout her childhood.

I can see one reason why a person might choose cheerleading (the kind that is done in high school and college and competitions) over gymnastics. One is a team and the other is solo. You can do so many more tricks with people there to physically support you. They are both impressive, but different people with similar…

The vast majority of pro sports cheerleading teams are actually dance teams and a lot of women do it for a few years because they want to be professional dancers and it’s good on their resume.

I hate when people pronounce “pollo” like “polo” instead of “poyo.” I may not have picked up much Spanish in my 6 months in Honduras, but I at least figured out the pronunciations (even if it is hard for me to do it sometimes.)

I’ve totally quit a job because it was more toxic than being unemployed and it was very negatively affecting my mental and even physical health. But, yeah, we can just make fun of that.

I’ll paraphrase Stephen King here: You don’t have to see it. It doesn’t ruin the original. The original is still there and you can still watch it. 

According to the ATF, you were right. Pistols and revolvers are two separate things and revolvers are not pistols.

Actually, according to the ATF (and every gun expert I’ve talked to, and I’ve talked to a lot) pistols and revolvers are handguns, but a pistol is any handgun that does not contain its ammunition in a revolving cylinder and, obviously, a revolver is one that does. So, pistol and revolver are two distinct things and no…

You replied to a person who asked if everyone at your place of work agreed with you with a screed that was written using a general you, rather than specifying Ken Jeong, and therefore implying that everyone should live by the standard of only working somewhere that at least the majority of coworkers agree with them.…

I live in Oklahoma. I live in rural Oklahoma. There are two reasons I can’t do what you say. 1) Finding a job in a rural area is very difficult, especially finding one that I like as much as I like my current job. 2) There is no way I’m finding a job anywhere in Oklahoma that doesn’t have a high percentage of people…

He really is. I am always entertained when he’s one of the announcers.

He is genuinely funny in his college football analysis role. (I need him to do the Big 12 Championship game.) I think this book will be really interesting. 

It’s weird to me to think of audiences for most music in the 80s being bothered by any artists being gay. The entire music scene (excepting a few genres like country and rap) was filled with androgyny, men wearing makeup, black leather clothing, etc. Gay, straight, somewhere in-between, didn’t matter. Even the…

I know it’s 10 days later, but I’m a vet and I wanted to tell you how awesome this reply is. It’s nice to run into people on the internet who have empathy, particularly these days when empathy is sorely lacking. It’s pretty obvious that you’re good people.

For some reason, that reminded me of the Progressive commercial where no one is taking pictures of Big Foot anymore and she calls him Big Foot and he says, “What’d you call me?” and he looks at his feet and says, “My name is Darryl.”

Yes! They were so great together. I miss him.

The Amityville Horror is 100% made up by the residents to get out of the house. Oh, the original DeFeo murders were real, but the none of the rest. And the Warrens were right there.

No, it isn’t clearly a positive. My mom lost 100 lbs once. Because she had cancer and it was throat cancer, so she couldn’t eat. There was nothing healthy about that. The best thing is to just not comment on a person’s body at all.

I’ve been pronouncing it the way you say it should be pronounced and didn’t even know I was wrong until I read your comment.

I love that commercial. That one and the one with Tag Team and “Scoop! There it is!”