I disliked, but didn’t hate, Cather in The Rye when forced to read it in high school. For some reason I gave it another shot in my early 40s and really enjoyed it. To Nick’s point I guess, some books work better at different points in your life. Maybe give it another go sometime. I might even try Madame Bovary again. I…

I’m amazed that player handed over his bat.  If my manager was having a big meltdown and told me, “give me your bat” I’m not sure I would do that. I’d be worried about being an accessory to murder.

Yeah, get with the program, Apple needs it’s next trillion dollars

Cliches aside I guess we don’t have to ask Drew what his most over-used phrase is, you know what I mean?

I cringe every preseason when they show clips from training camp of a fat white “owner” riding around in a golf cart looking at all the black folks working their asses off to make him even more money. It’s not very often that reality is laid so bare.

I’ve made more money in my 401(k) and my kid’s college savings fund over the past couple years than I made in salary.

You just blew my mind.  I looked up GS350s in my area and was amazed at the drop.  It never even occurred to me to research cars with the highest depreciation when shopping for used cars.  

I’m pro “not picking a side”

You know you’re going to make the highlights if the umpire is standing over you laughing at you.

If you’re having trouble remembering someone’s name, Ranganath suggests trying a mnemonic device to help you remember

Or he could use his brilliant strategy of claiming, “ I meant ‘I DIDN’T NOT know of the meeting.’ kind of a double negative thing”.  

Or slipping right into your pants pocket as you try to walk by.

Contrast that with the article about conservatives “infiltrating” a political speech and learning

I think the NRA might have accidentally drunk their own Kool-Aid. They only exist as a front for gun manufacturers (as usual their “freedom” talk is just to get yokels to support their corporate agenda). But now they are advocating for the idea that people should stop buying guns and just 3d print their own? It seems…

According to my HR department the first rule is “keep it in your pants”.  Beyond that I guess you’re free to do whatever.

Also, a blacked out hellcat seems like just the right car for an inconspicuous undercover operation.

I don’t believe Apu’s accent is any more stereotypical than the yokel’s accent, the bumblebee man’s accent, Mayor Quimby’s Kennedy accent, Rabbi Krustofski’s Jewish accent, every Russian and French accent on the show, or as others note, Groundkeeper Willie’s.  

But my point is that it wasn’t racist UNTIL racists started using it. If someone said, “Go back to your own country Gandhi”. That wouldn’t make Gandhi a racial stereotype. It would just mean that particular racist could only think of Gandhi as a way to show that they viewed someone as an anonymous member of a group…

I haven’t watched the documentary so maybe this is addressed. But isn’t “Thank you, come again” only used as a racist joke because Apu used it as a catch-phrase? That is, it wasn’t an existing stereotype that was reinforced, but rather an innocuous phrase that was adopted by racists as an easy way to mock people.…

hey, leave my sister out of this.