Spending on military makes America look strong, so says Republicans. Let’s keep building planes and ships and tanks we can’t and won’t use. Also the manufacturers of the planes, ships and tanks make donations to politicans so they can keep building them and selling them to the government.

Oh horseshit.

The history of that man and his administration are a complete embarrassment to our country.

Oh for fuck’s sake. The Nats didn’t lose that playoff series because of the Strasburg shutdown—they lost because none of the other pitchers (excepting the guy who replaced him in the rotation, ironically enough) bothered to show up for the series, and because the entire pitching staff shat itself in game 5. This point…

Nope. Tell me about him.

Every time I think of Rickey Henderson, I have the visceral reaction of...

Actually, you didn’t mention what I think was the most unusual part: he didn’t record a swing tonight!

They call them scalpers to honor them.

“What are thoooooose?”

On that waiting list for season tickets: I once decided to join it, just as a lark, figuring in the 10-20 years they claim people stay on the waiting list that I might want those tickets for some reason. I had a ticket rep calling me less than two weeks later asking where I wanted seats. I passed.

as a child, I purposely dropped some garbage on the floor in the school hallway right in front of a teacher. When he asked me why I’d done that, I answered that the school had janitors, and it was their job to clean up.

Re: your last paragraph:

I wouldn’t normally think my perspective on this is that worth sharing, but you specifically asked for opinions, so here you go.

I live in Maine and have actually been to this diner. I think the important thing to know about Marcy’s is that it really is a hole-in-the-wall. There are maybe 5 tables and one counter that might seat a dozen. It is tiny and cramped and hot (because the griddle is 3 feet from the counter), but the food is delicious…

The Wisconsin State Senate—the same legislative body imposing draconian cuts to the state’s University System out of ‘necessity’—had no problem coming up with a quarter of a billion dollars for this boondoggle. As a Wisconsinite, this kind of thing makes me livid. But even if you didn’t grow up here, you should still…

I like the part where you attempt to question his academic prowess and then proceed to use the phrase “begs the question” incorrectly.

It doesn't beg the question, it RAISES THE QUESTION, did he ever go to class.