Umm you know this was taken last July right?

It's more nuanced than that though. By removing a dictator, you create a power vacuum where these things can happen. It's fine and all to make retrospective judgments about the right course of action, but in this situation, if we had sat back and not done anything, is that really for the greater good? Dictators are…

You break it, you buy it basically. The lesser of two evils is helping people when asked as opposed to the morally-repugnant "no thanks, you all take care of it." It was relatively-low risk, especially geo-politically, and it's easily the better choice to go get this one back so as to hopefully alleviate some…

Not even that refreshing/cool considering that Chaz Barkley already had his in the bag when he got his DUI.

Do you not know that a logo counts as a representation? I'm talking about any of the things that teams named after Native Americans use, most of which are less culturally-sensitive than how the Redskins use their mascot. Examples abound all over sports. Sorry you live in Ohio, but that doesn't make you exempt from…

Sure, since your obviously coming from a selected bias.

Yeah it's a good point, but I'm really hesitant to say we can assume someone is being disingenuous just because everyone else thinks they should be offended. Thanksgiving dinner and civil rights are worlds apart when we're talking about not speaking up for fear of being perceived as something.

So how do you discern whether to believe what someone actually says from how someone actually feels? Do you just automatically know better than to take someone at their word? If not, that's an awfully tenuous point to make.

Nope, he's 100% wrong. If you can't find any examples of gay people being treated horribly, you're not paying attention. Further, those examples happened more recently than the civil rights movement.

'You've got to be one of the dumbest humans ever...

Have you ever interacted with the police? It sounds like you think the only times they can infringe on your rights is when you've committed a crime. Here's an encounter I had not even a week ago:

Maybe you don't get it. This is a big deal. If you're one of those people who doesn't want the NSA spying on you, you're probably of the opinion that you don't want anyone else spying on you either. It's not so much specifically that someone WILL grab your info and WILL use it against you, it's that if it is…

I'm assuming that's 9PM ET? Not all of us live in places with weather...

Awesome read.

Any word on whether this love story had a happy ending?

Something something something *golden balls* something something.

Adopted prince??!?!? Spoiler alert... (R+L=J)

It is harsh, but I think that this is the only way to adjudicate these types of fouls. For a world-class striker, I'd have to believe that these 1-on-1 with the keeper is easier to score than a penalty kick so without the threat of a red card, the defender will commit the foul in most cases.

To be fair, if it looked like the seat next to me might be empty and an anorexic dwarf came to sit next to me, I'd be affronted (albeit knowingly asshole-ishly) by their invasion of my space. It's more that I hate EVERYONE who dares to sit in a seat next to me.

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