I’m not down with this anti-intellectualism. I have a large vocabulary. I use the words I know with the closest meaning to what I am trying to say. It means sometimes I use words other people don’t know. Fancy words are fun to learn and say!

If you constantly worry about having to “dumb down” your writing, you’re a bad writer.

I get the idea of calling folks on being pretentious, however dumbing down your language skills so you don’t appear to be elitist is short-minded. Yes some people get offended because I use words they don’t understand but this in English and not everything needs to be expressed solely in lyrics from a country or rap…

“He died like he lived: drifting aimlessly wherever the current took him.”

operational part: “she is someone I had a very close relationship”...

not everyone had the same experience as you...

Sadly not everyone had/has a great mother and this is more for them than someone like you who already had this kind of relationship. 

Replace “Coach” with “Husband” and “players” with “spouse”, then re-read what you wrote and see if you viewpoint changes.

I’m bemused that Izzo, who makes how many millions of dollars, behaved like a 5-year-old when interacting with an actual 18-year-old. He should be embarrassed. Would a professor at this esteemed academic institution be forgiven for acting the same way?

You’re right, he doesn't work in an office. He works at a fucking school.

Pay them, then

College basketball head coaching suffers from what we call the “BMW Paradox.” We’re not sure whether you have to be a raging asshole to acquire that position, or if you just morph into a raging asshole after you acquire it?

The worst part about this is that Izzo thinks his yelling made this kid effective.  Studies have shown (read The Happiness Advantage) that yelling does the opposite and the kid even talked about the pressure he feels when being yelled at.  His teammate had to intervene yesterday and asked Izzo what point he wanted to…

“Guns aren’t the problem. Look at Chicago, where there are strict gun crimes!”

“Nothing can be done,” says only country where this regularly happens.

I think I am biased towards hating them as they remind me of the kind of couple that makes out on a crowded subway and doesn’t care about the other people. Then then get off and because they’re holding hands blocks the escalator for people to walk past them.

You mean Garrison Keillor, who publicly misrepresented the allegations against him? Who admitted in January that he sent his female employees sexually explicit messages, but didn’t see anything wrong with it? Who was paid $275,000 in a settlement not because he was innocent, but because they were contractually…

To all these profilers I prescribe the book “Why Does He Do That,” by Lundy Bancroft, a counselor who worked with abusive men.

Bill Maher is trash.

[...]writers (with whom I’m sure would be popular here) who want to confiscate wealth wholesale by arbitrary guidelines set by, again -the mob.