Wow, way to read too much into it. You asked a question, I answered; you reply with "well that seems like a dumb thing for Ward to do," and I reply with, in essence, "it was, but it was an even dumber thing for Stewart to do." I'm not insinuating anything; all I had to say, I said.

True, in which case Stewart's obligation is to apply the brakes, not the gas.

It's not normal, but it's somewhat more normal than running said person over. After you smack a guy's car into the wall and render it undriveable, you have to figure he's going to be out of the car and on the track at some point, even if he's not yelling at you. This should be a lifetime racing ban and criminal…

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that just because we've done terrible things in the past, we shouldn't punish Putin's terrible things now—but we do it because we can, and because it's in our interest to deter such shenanigans (without nuclear apocalypse), not due to any overarching moral authority, as much as…

Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. Sanctions are what happen when you're culpable in the deaths of 298 civilians, you jackass.

I actually think Mark Meer did a pretty good job as BroShep. It's just that J. Hale did a freakin' legendary job as FemShep, so Meer suffers by comparison.

They also preferred soldier class (by a wide margin) and didn't customize their characters (by a wide margin). To sum up, noobs just mashed the A button all the way through character creation. Kinda depressing.

I include the Dodgers because of Greinke, mainly; if he's not pitching, it's usually a pretty low-drama scene, but Zack has a very prickly sense of honor and a stinging fastball.

That the Cards have accidentally hit Hanley twice is an unfortunate coincidence. This year's (ninth inning, runner on first in a close game, two strikes on Ramirez, hit in the hand) wasn't even conceivably intentional; there's no reason to believe the one in the playoffs last year was intentional, either, except that…

Show me a time in recent memory (let's say 5 years) where the Cards retaliated for an obviously accidental HBP. It's been the D-Backs, Braves, and Dodgers causing 95% of the commotion for the last few years.

Tell me in which other industry can you be punished by your employer for something that happened outside of the workplace.

So, let me see if I've got this straight:

I was going to say something similar. Joint and several liability applies to all economic damages, so the Dodgers are on the hook for ALL of that, and then it's up to them to recover however many millions from two incarcerated jackasses.

He did EXACTLY this last year, and it cost that poor dugout phone its life. Would that this pitch had been plausibly a strike so we could have enjoyed that spectacle once more.

I'd kind of guessed as much, though I'm not sure I'd even flatter him with the title "World's Blankiest Blank."

Probably about 10%, but you better get your religious documentation lined up first—longstanding tradition, scriptures, consistent practice throughout the ages, etc. You can't make up your own rules UNLESS a bunch of loud judgmental white people have made up the same rules at about the same time.

This is fantastic news! Since we apparently now have a legal principle that you don't have to spend money on something that violates your beliefs, we Quakers get to hold on to something like 20% of our federal taxes—the part that goes to blowing people up. Right? Right? I mean, since pacifism is a core Quaker…

Well, it's not slavery, silly—that would be wrong! It's a mutually agreed-upon employment relationship wherein the employee can't ever leave (not that they'd want to!) and payment is optional. Completely different!

True enough, and that's some serious bullshit. The U.S. did nab that one Indian delegate who forgot that consular immunity doesn't go very far at all, but even that foofooraw poached the toes of our own consular officers in India. And that's INDIA—big, consolidated democracy with no small amount of problems, but no…

Immunity belongs to the country, not the diplomat; he can't stop his home government from waiving it and hanging him out to dry, but he can't stop them from asserting it either, so he can't personally abuse it.