She said that achievements, or what matters to some people, literally don’t matter.

Nope. You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own reality.

Also, it was advice. If you find that you can be rewarded by personal achievement while closing yourself off to developing relationships with friends, family, and loved ones, bully for you. Her experience suggested otherwise and she was sharing it in a speech at a women’s college in the spirit of helping.

Congrats, you found a way to internet up a rebuke of “relationships are good for human beings.”

She didn’t say “romantic” relationships.

You missed the point of the quote fabulously.

So what exactly is next to nothing? Is it also nothing? More nothing, or less nothing?

Jeter insists upon having Gumbel define tanking, as if he literally doesn’t know what it is. He does this so that he can zero in on the rough and imprecise definition Gumbel offers, in order to avoid confronting the spirit of the question. This is cowardice.

I don’t have an answer at all and don’t know enough of Cullen’s background to defend or judge, but it does seem like tragedies like these do things to some people. The guy from The League and 9/11, Brian Williams and his war reporting. That’s not me letting them off the hook mind you; I find it totally fascinating.

Seriously did he even hear himself saying all of that shit? Who. The fuck. Cares. Anderson’s reaction says it all. “What?! You’re mad? Why? Seriously? Come on, man.”

Implicit in all those rage tweets is that there’s something to “flip” about. Yeesh.

the second half, where it basically dismisses the first half as reactionary and silly

Yes, thank you, I’m well aware of all of this.

Oh man, I remember not watching FIGHT CLUB for a long time, turning it back on about a year ago, and being stunned. Imagine that coming out now?! You’re right, it was like this 5-10 year stretch at the end/ beginning of the century where white guys just wouldn’t shut up about how shitty life was?

I think this is part of it too, in that he at least had the self-awareness to see that allll the people covering his band thought their music was fucking trash (which it was, 100% of it). He would drop little hints that he was better than it, and tried to act like some genius trapped in the world’s biggest/ worst rock…

That aside is in literally every article mentioning Borland going back to like 2000.

Borland—always the thinking man’s nu-metal guitarist—

He is, so far, literally the only one to figure out how to effectively challenge and puncture the Trump Thing.

“It seems like you want attention,” says the daughter of a politician who took a high-profile gig on a morning talk show.

I agree, but shit I’m glad she did—Stormy is quick-witted and knows she’s right; getting the condescending questions and knocking them out of the park is even more convincing.