Prison guards and the prison system are wholly responsible for ANY and ALL violence that occurs in the facilities they are running.

As a dumb child, I decided I did not like tooth brushes and convinced my parents to let me use a wash cloth or simple rinse my teeth. And they allowed me to do this!For years!

I no longer ask my children (11 and 13) if they’ve brushed their teeth. I’ve developed some sort of mystical dad knowledge about whether they’ve actually done so, based solely on their movements to and from the upstairs bathroom, which I pay only casual attention to.

Quick, Kinja, everyone convince Drew he wrote the exact opposite a year ago.

“I must break you.”

“I better use Tic-Tac just in case I start kiss her. You know I automatically attract to beautiful—I just start kiss them. It like magnet. Just kiss. I don’t wait even. And when you star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Meanwhile your child got an elective surgery because he felt like his genitals made him an outcast. I’m not saying that’s you fucking up as a parent, but if you don’t reflect upon that and realize how absurd and cruel it is that’s pretty lame. 

Griffey in the dugout to greet Ichiro made me nostalgic for all of the Mariners teams of my youth that always found a way to came up just short.

That sounds more like a problem with societal pressures than it does a reason to circumcise a child.

Never knew I was supposed to drive in Heels. I will go out and get some

You're right: all sports fans are awful.

I love XJ’s more than most here. I’ve owned over a dozen of them over the years.

All that rapier wit in the comments section lost...

excuse me what

Poke in the Eye: yellow card.
Sock in the Guts: red card.

Classic. A huge multinational organization can systematically target non-white women with humiliating treatment, but the real racists are the ones who notice and call it out. It must be comforting to create a bubble where racism is defined so carefully that it can nearly never occur. Bad treatment of some white people…

No fault of hers, of course, but also not a level playing field - and sports assumes that there is one.

As I made clear, I’m not defending Stephenson’s opinions. He’s garbage.

Wait wait wait waaaaiiiiiit a minute. Two things of import are glossed over here:

You know ordering a Black and Tan is offensive, right? Don’t do it in an Irish bar in New England if you don’t want your teeth kicked in.