Don't get me started on AA. I have a lot of friends who only managed to deal with alcohol once they left that organization.

I will. It's about AA? I knew there had to be a reason I was hearing so much about the relative efficacy of addiction treatments this week.

If the administration had the ability to cease funding for these fake therapies (and it sounds like they are indirectly through the exchanges, based on your comment), that would be fantastic.

It would definitely be doable with a compliant Congress, real action could be taken. I honestly think he’s signaling intent to other Democrats in Congress without trying to get too involved in it. If it gets cast as “his” issue, Republicans will make it a campaign issue about executive overreach as they’ve done with…

Exactly. I’m gay, and I’d love to ban this toxic practice, particularly for minors. But I’m not sure the power resides in the executive branch to do that. Obama's actually been as much a proponent of a muscular executive as Bush ever was, probably more so. I don't think he's avoiding unilateral action because he's…

I'd be very curious about what he could do on his own. Most people here seem to think there's a greater action he could take, but I don't know that he could take an executive action that applied to everyone and not just federal employees and government contractors. Calling for a bill, I guess, but that would be…

Someone else said "salon style", which I guess is historically accurate. We always called them Barnes walls at work, after the Barnes Foundation. Horror vacui in a decorating context is hilarious, though. I now have an adequate descriptor for my parents' house!

Finally, I get to hear this term used in a different context than dating ancient pottery sherds!

Excuse me, Sir, that's "lustful cockmonster"

You seem to be engaged in a fierce rhetorical debate with the part of your brain that wrote all those contentless and obfuscatory replies, so I'll leave you two alone to sort it out.

And I'm saying that misrepresenting the protestors' beliefs (which is what both you and I were talking about, and you seem bewildered by) is a common facet of modern protest movements, and that the comparative duration of these protests is important as it helps explain the speed at which public opinion shifts. The OP…

You're honestly surprised that they're misrepresenting the goals and motivations of the protesters? It seems pretty obvious that this would happen. The civil rights analogy is apt—they don't feel obligated to believe in a version of the truth that accurately and fairly represents the people they hate.

It seems weird to write this and not link to Burneko, particularly considering that "hating Skyline chili" is already an established part of the Gawker Media brand. His screed on Skyline chili was legendary, and prompted a wide array of butthurt editorials and tv news coverage in Cincinnati.

Never listen to people who tell you what you "have" to get on a cheesesteak. They are all intolerable weenies and, for the most part, live in South Jersey.

Your bruised ego here is entirely your own fault, and phrasing your whining in the cheery-outraged patois that passes for a house style at Jez doesn't make it witty.

It's confusing to see people so self-congratulatory because they are totally unfamiliar with the site they're commenting on. I'm guessing nywoman92 knew had a perfectly fine general opinion on the matter (NFL BAD), but didn't realize it was basically irrelevant to the discussion here, and doubled down on being wrong.…

You're willfully misunderstanding the reaction you're getting. There have been many, many posts here lambasting the NFL and the sports commentators that support it, and it should be fairly obvious that most of the readership here agrees with that perspective.

If you read Deadspin with any regularity, you would know that the comment pool here is much less misogynist than, say, over at Gawker (likely a function of there being fewer trolls here.) There has been an enormous amount of coverage of DV and the NFL, and the vast majority of the commenters are on that same page.

You can't fight snobbery with snobbery, but I do like seeing you try.

It's the curse of the Welsh settlers here in Philly, though I'm not sure how Chicago ended up with them, too. Out of towners can almost all manage "Bryn Mawr," because of the college, but I will never get tired of hearing how nonlocal people think "Bala Cynwyd" is supposed to sound.