I assumed the same thing.

Exactly. Momentarily clouded judgment would be a reasonable explanation for not immediately condemning him. Not for actively defending him, and attacking his accusers.

Exactly. This is as good as an apology can be. That’s the first step.

I’ve been thinking the exact same thing. Trump in the White House makes it a lot harder to retreat into the safety of cognitive dissonance — for both victims and defenders.

This is one of those situations where his having run this same tournament for more than 10 years was a detriment. The expectations for that sort of tournament, and the business skills required changed underneath him, and he didn’t realize it. I’ve seen the same thing happen around sf and gaming cons in general in the…

There are ways to bring back jobs...but they involve raising the costs of business practices that move jobs overseas, and neither party is going to do that.

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.