Or auto racing. There you’re just sitting there directing a machine to do all the real work.

To me, the best comparison is auto racing. If that’s a sport, so are esports.

Just another factor in the wave of retiring Republican Congressman. At the moment, 10% of the caucus is retiring.

Awesome on all fronts. Thank you!

I was taught that you use an apostrophe for plurals of, as best I can describe it, ‘nonstandard constructions’ which is basically things that are assemblages of letters rather than actual words. The main other thing this would include is acronyms. Now, that was forty years ago, so that may no longer be standard…

Yes. This is the exact situation when it is permissable to use an apostrophe in a plural.

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She survived the seige of St Petersburg during WWI/the Russian Revolution as a teenager. One out of every six residents of the city died, mostly of hunger. By the end the survivors were making soup from boiled wallpaper.

Kind of nice that she managed to do that while not showing her face, and keeping her back to the camera then.

Exactly. I guarantee that Kaepernick jerseys from whichever team signed him would end up being the best-selling jerseys in the NFL.

I agree with your comment on the nerfing of Hulk.

I mean, this accurately describes why my original choice for the Democratic nomination was “anyone but Clinton”. I certainly voted for her in the general, but it was with the least enthusiasm imaginable.

I think he honestly believes they are issues that transcend race, and that if he avoids racializing them that everyone will suddenly realize that.

I also wanted Elizabeth Warren. (And would vote for her in a heartbeat in 2020.) Remember when the Senate Democrats created a leadership position for her in November 2014? That was her being encouraged not to enter the race in 2016.

You’re right that it isn’t a surprise — it was obvious in 2015 that the DNC was clearing the decks of all serious challengers against HRC. But no one wanted to talk about it then — people who brought it up were accused of whining or exaggerating. And by the time most people noticed, it was a fait accompli.

So...there are heels, and there are heels.

So...I am married to an alcoholic. It sucks, for all the reasons you’ve talked about. And more. My wife has gone to rehab five times. We’re going to court next week to find the results of her first DWI (it’s amazing she’d never gotten one before, honestly) where she blew .22 at the scene, and has no memory of the…

Y’all is the only remaining vestige of my Southern accent, because it is far too useful to discard. (And “you guys” sets my teeth on edge.)

A bunch of gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns have been coined over the years — I’m personally partial to zie/hir. But they never gain any traction.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the sport I was really good at — soccer — was one that nobody in my hometown already knew how to play. (This was the 70s/80s in Texas.) So the coaches *had* to teach the fundamentals to everyone.