White people may feel aggrieved at the words they read on the internet, but they are not experiencing racism. Racism has nothing to do with feelings. It is a measurable reality that white people are not subject to, regardless of their income or status.

“I am also grateful that the officers were unharmed.”

“Fuck you, I got mine”

Does it matter? A perfect game or no-hitter is a statistical anomaly that holds no actual significance.

Yeah, the people complaining about limiting mound visits are out to lunch as far as I’m concerned. Baseball went on just fine for over a hundred years with the catcher almost never going to the mound in the middle of an at bat. The last couple of years it’s begun to happen all the frigging time. Pitchers and catchers…

They’re not implementing this rule as a way to improve the MiLB product. It’s a test run that they intend to implement in MLB if it works and fans get behind it.

This is a mistake that all current Democrats and the next Democratic president need to learn from. The Republican Party in its current form is not playing the bipartisanship game. They are out. Any overtures toward bipartisanship are traps. They cannot be worked with or reasoned with or bargained with.

Considering the victim is a triathlete, I assume it’s not a coincidence. It seems obvious that he was targeted and this was something personal.

About twenty years ago I was telling my friend that mispronunciation bothers me, but I pronounced it “mispronounce-iation”, which... Yeah. He thought I was being funny, but nope.

English has such a complicated history that a rudimentary knowledge of etymology is almost a requirement for understanding how to read and write in it. If you have an awareness of where the words come from pronouncing them (and spelling them, for that matter) tends to become much simpler.

This makes me feel good about my situation. I’ve long said that I have three friends, and only three friends. I have numerous other acquaintances, some of whom I’m extremely fond of and usually refer to as “friends”, but I only have three true, full-time friends.

Of course some do, just like some but not all men do. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t orders of magnitude more likely that a male coach/trainer is going to sexually abuse their female charges than that a female coach will.

For me, it’s not so much that I my dog is amazing (I mean, he is, don’t get me wrong), but that he’s a mutt and I don’t really know how to get another one exactly like him. He’s the most beautiful creature in the whole wide world and there needs to be more of him.

These exact studies can be done already using identical twins (and they can have different sexual orientations).

Yup. Beat Republicans a their own game by making the free market help clean shit up. It drives them absolutely bonkers when corporations do things they don’t like; partly because they’re hypocrites who only believe in capitalism when it’s rigged in their favor, and partly because they fucking hate being reminded that…

It’s possible for both things to be true: that he had bad formative experiences with women early in his life and that he’s 100% responsible for his own shitty, predatory, abusive behaviour as an adult.

Gun manufacturers lobby through the NRA. Step 1 is to make the NRA brand toxic. Step 2 is to elect people who will undo the decades of horrific legislation the NRA has somehow managed to get passed, and begin to pass progressive gun laws. Step 3 is to hold weapons manufacturers accountable. You can’t get to step 3…

Middle ground? Right now virtually all gun policy is dictated by the NRA, which has an extremist position.

I did a two-year diploma program in computer systems at my local polytech, and out of forty students that started with me three were women. Something badly needs to be done about those kind of numbers.

He is in my book. When I walked out of the theatre yesterday one of my biggest takeaways was that Jordan, Boseman, Nyong’o, and Gurira are all absolute megawatt stars. They should all be A-listers now.