I don’t normally comment, but I have some knowledge that applies here. I’m replying to Joe because I really don’t want to reply to the trolls.

I’m a special education coach in a very large urban school district, formerly a special education teacher. Part of my job is to help schools support positive behavior for all…

I love how white men that claim to live in fear of ‘government tyranny’ and believe that it is righteous to rebel against it are the first ones to insist that all black people should strictly obey every police officer like a submissive dog.

I’v taught for almost 20 years and I’ve never had a kid take a swing. You know why? I learned how to de-escalate a situation and let the kid save face. I learned when to not push kids on issues. I’ve learned when to let small infractions slide. I learned these things because I can never use force. It’s a shame police…

Gonna be the unnecessary voice of reason here and say that I totally get AP’s explanation. This doesn’t mean I buy it, necessarily, but it’s not as ludicrous as Drew thinks.

My wife is allergic to a great many things. Sunflower seeds will kill her in 30 minutes; almonds will make her tongue a little itchy. Getting…

I think your quarrel is with the rule and not the replay. The replay just improves the umpire’s ability to enforce the rule. If the league wants to change the rule, fine, but I bet most people prefer a bright-line test: if you come off the bag and you are tagged out, then you are out. The alternative — some kind of…

Hey, I don’t eat the things, other people in my household do.

Bananas are terrible because they’re objectively terrible.

Eh, bananas are ok in the fridge, especially if you know you won’t be eating them for a while. They’ll keep for a long time. I’m convinced the whole “bananas on the counter” thing is a conspiracy to get you to buy more bananas.

Congratulations: you’ve made my sympathize with Patriots fans for maybe the first time ever.

Yeah, my one IP class in graphic design school agrees with what you say. There is no percentage that something has to change. And seriously, how would you even measure that shit?

They taught that a neutral party has to be able to look at the original work and your work and say “Nope, not a copy.” That’s it. Of course,…

...and to answer your question about changing a design by a certain percentage ‘make this 30% different’ is an at once vague and specific thing a designer would say to a CAD artist but usually in reference to a pattern that repeats. This is a copy. They should fire their Design Director and hire me instead.

I am a fashion industry textile designer who is often asked to knock things off (it’s how the fashion industry works), and this would not pass legal anywhere I have ever worked. This is lazy AF.

You missed the best part!

I need a flowchart to follow Deadspin’s thought process. Its like they almost always disagree and belittle ESPN (which, Deadspin wouldnt even exist if not for ESPN—but neither here nor there) unless ESPN publishes something bad about the Patriots (or really Boston in general) then they back it up 100%, write 4 stories…

Or consider this:

a player who almost definitely did what he was accused of

Americans reserve their gun tantrums for black kids with snacks, female gym attendees who won't date them, Sikhs, Japanese kids in Halloween costumes, blacks looking for help after a car accident, Democratic congresswomen, Colorado movie audiences and Connecticut schoolchildren. For some reason, pampered peckerwoods…