The NYT once paid for Brooks to take a $120,000 round the world vacation so he could write about how the people on it were rich, but not “Rich” and still essentially peasants without the ability to really appreciate things.

As far as I can tell, that single ludicrous number is about what the opinion columnists actually make.

As they say on Jalopnik, “I know what I got”.

Out of all of this, my favorite part is your salary range being a single number.

Any minute now...

Fortunately there’s a huge industry of important people complaining about censorship on campus that’s going to spring to this kids defense. I can’t wait to see the free speech warriors jump in on this obvious high profile example.

Also, for a town of less than 10,000 where nothing interesting has happened in almost a hundred years, Marysville has a shockingly long Wikipedia article.

She lives right next to the border. She has first hand knowledge of how “those people” are.

I’d say he’s slightly below mediocre. Not quite ok, but not terrible. He’s week old pizza that’s left in the fridge but its midnight and you’re hungry. Except it’s noon and there’s still plenty of time to get something better.

You’re saying that you tried to head off the obvious comparison I was clearly making by pretending that a word doesn’t mean what it actually means?

I said good, not perfect.

This is also a good poll.

Actually, in tort law “assault” is about scaring people. So saying someone assaulted me by jumping out and shouting “boo” would be accurate, but highly misleading because in most circumstances people use “assault” to mean “harm”.

You don’t understand how you can say something that is technically true to imply something completely different? If I tell you I’ve been assaulted, do you think of someone jumping up and shouting “boo”?

Seriously. Baker was a messed up monkey. It’s hard to even talk about her space crimes.

Using the word “hacking” to describe logging in with a shard password is just an attempt to make it sound more nefarious. It’s like saying you were assaulted because someone scared you. It might be true in a really technical sense using one specific definition, but no one really thinks that’s what you’re talking about…

In general understanding “hacking” means a lot more than just using a password that the person told you.

50/50 that it was just a password saved in their Google account. 

Isn't that always what it means?