“That’s selfish,” Kamara said following the match. “That’s not teammates. That’s selfishness.

Matt Leinart Soccer...MLS...brilliant wordplay.

I actually didn’t read it that way. I thought he meant that MLS teams have a hard enough time attracting stars, so to get rid of a “star level” talent (I’m not too familiar with this guy) is a major deal. I agree he probably wouldn’t namedrop the better leagues, but I read it as analogous to one of the following…

Leading causes of death in Russia (per capita):

They shoot horses, don’t they?

The NFL only offers 5 year insurance to players after 3 years on the field and continue to fight claims for post-career medical costs (although to an extent, I see their point from a business standpoint, not a moral one). I highly doubt they have anything in place to provide for career loss. If anything, it would be…

My eyes are burning from the scorch of your take.

If I were inclined to called people who couldn’t walk “lame” instead of “disabled” or “injured” or “[using their actual name instead of defining them through their physical status],” I’d agree.

FWIW words can have multiple definitions

If so, then when I say something is gay, I’m saying it’s happy and delighted.

And after a lifetime of tiptoeing around those lines, we’ll all end up lame (in both senses).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_rhym…

The thesaurus has doomed us all. BIG WORD always needs more fuel for its furnace of figurative expression!

I actually talk about this a lot with my gay friend. (Yes, I went there, and no its not an opinion all gay people have to share, just a better person to bounce this idea off of.) He agrees some things are “gay” even figuratively. But we ended up at the point where it’s best to just follow general convention of…

Missed the syntax in “crying about chalk and a racist jerk...”; felt like you were referring to crying about both things. People can be oversensitive to things and it ends up undermining their own views when they try to shut down others, definitely agreed.

Twitter eggs and Facebook uncles who bitch about their freedom of speech being corrupted because other people had the gall to exercise theirs...And so now there is a fight between a relatively small number of people arguing for safe spaces—on campus and online and wherever else there’s bound to be discourse—and a…

A vast majority of the other workplaces in the world are “safe spaces,” where employees should be free from harassment, offensive language, and violence. Glad you found a place where “free speech” reigns though. Water finds its own level.

You, good friend, can be the safe space, instead of being the person demanding one, or the person mocking the very idea.

Lame is a perfectly apt synonym that also happens to rhyme, so that’s how I trained myself out of it.

Or maybe the offseason gave him a chance to catch up on those “Magician Secrets Revealed” shows and he was thoroughly disillusioned