You’re dodging the point and not leaving open the possibility that maybe some people other than you DONT think the painting is bad. Have you considered that the opinions of art critics are not equal to facts and may not be unanimous about this? Art criticism traffics in the subjective, not in absolute facts. Because…

“no is arguing that you shouldn’t be literally allowed to”

Art is inherently subjective. That you interpret her painting as not having “something to say” about Till DOES NOT MEAN that she doesn’t have something to say about Till. Your opinion of her painting is not the definitive, be-all, end-all of what the painting is. The painting can be different things to different…

Maybe her black friends aren’t telling her that? Maybe her black friends said they were ok with it, and then some other black person she doesn’t know decided they were offended by it?

“Have some respect”. What if she was trying to have some respect by painting it in the first place?

“I don’t have a problem with her addressing this subject, but her painting treats Till like a bowl of fruit.”

aammmmmazing

Exactly. Unless it were clearly obvious that someone like Butler would make them dramatically better this year — and it really isn’t; they’re already #2 in the East anyway and would presumably still just be #2 in the East with him— why mortgage the future for it?

Agree completely. A key point is: they’ve already over-performed into being #2 in the East. Their ceiling right now is losing to the Cavs in the conference finals. If they added Butler, would they be any better than #2 in the East with a ceiling of losing to the Cavs in the conference finals? Seems dubious. Yes,…

“probably doesn’t have more than, at most, another two or three seasons of being able to play like this before he starts to decline”

I seriously think there’s a pretty decent chance whoever wins doesn’t go to the White House and tradition ends here.

except there’s no illusion. he actually shot himself in the mouth with a real bullet and hurt himself.

*after his brother got himself cast on a national TV show based entirely on playing the card of being his brother. he didn’t just casually mention it. he became TV “famous” playing on his brother’s name and voluntarily put himself in a situation where he’d have to discuss the issue...

The prevent defense is the most maddeningly conservative dumb shit ever.

And Alaska doesn’t really count — spends a lot because of travel expenses and remoteness — just getting school materials to schools is expensive when some of the schools you have to fly a plane to get there! And I imagine paying/recruiting/retaining teachers in remote schools is really expensive as well. The state…

Indeed, there are a bunch of states that manage to provide basic public services better than Nevada without an income tax...

Hi Zach!

Right. This is just being a fucking lunatic. Not an illusionist.

It likely isn’t a CA entity signing his checks though. The farm teams are legally incorporated businesses in their various states, usually completely independently owned businesses from the central ball club, but with a licensing/affiliation agreement with a major league club governing the assignment of players and…

Blatant cheating in which there’s no evidence that they actually spoke to Eli within the restricted :15 time frame, it only happened because the NFL’s issued equipment sucks, and it lasted only for a few meaningless plays in a drive in which the offense gained no yards and Eli threw an interception. It had no impact…