You’re being obtuse. The literal point of the story — the reason you printed it in this feature — is that this waiter served a woman a dangerously hot bowl to get some yucks from putting her in her place via injury. Frankly, this guy is lucky the woman didn’t get burned badly enough to sue, because at least in America…

Depends on the excercise. Live-fire ones are never done in a Red/Blue scenario, for obvious reasons. Most of them are ‘Ok, this spot here has an ‘enemy missile base’. Deploy forces accordingly, with all the supply chains, logistics, electronic warfare, and other goodies, as if we were going to carpet-bomb the place.…

People who own guns who fall outside Greg’s sensible parameters fetishize/fantasize about taking someone’s life so easily, from a mechanical standpoint. That fantasy is probably subconscious for most, but there’s little doubt that trigger-happy policemen join the force at least partly with the perverse hope that…

I’m all in favour of the Second Amendment, provided it applies only to guns that existed at the time the amendment was ratified. No centerfire ammunition, semi-auto, double-action revolver, none of that.

You don’t even get a percussion cap (invented in 1807), so good luck killin’ folks when it rains.

You can’t even leave the country. Any country you would want to live in makes it nearly impossible for Americans who aren’t doctors, engineers, or high level computer programmers to emigrate there (to be fair, we do the same thing to them). That's why it always cracks me up when people say "If you don't like it,…

It was the Feds, not the boos.

Yeah...I mean to be fair it is difficult not to get wrapped up in the Spieth narrative, because what he did in the majors this year was almost indescribably great, taking the whole picture into account.

Being armed doesn’t necessarily translate to capable though.

I gotta lay the blame on Cowherd there. He's interviewing a football coach, so he uses a stupid stock market metaphor, and the football coach hears it as a homophone football term.

I represent allegedly horrible people all the time. I’m ok with it. If the government wants to come in and say that someone is horrible; well then I say prove it. I make it as difficult as possible for them to do so, not because I want horrible people to run free but because I want them to really have to work at it…

Ah okay. Just as I expected: it was a custody battle. I know there are dudes who sincerely love their kids and want like hell to spend more time with them, but honestly, what I see way way way more often among my divorced friends is dads who blatantly give zero shits about their kids except as ways to control or get…

I want to preface my response by saying that I absolutely am strongly in favor of gay rights and think that under anti-discrimination laws, a baker should have to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple just as for any other couple. But this wasn’t a wedding cake, it was a cake with a specific message on it saying…

Then put the disclaimer? I wasn’t a lit major, if there’s a class that has a lot of content about rape or violence towards women I’d want to be aware. You’re mistaking my bluntness for callousness, I think that it’s certainly polite to issue a disclaimer on the syllabus but the entitlement to constant comfort in…

I’m in the camp of “teach it, examine it, move on”. Some professors will give a warning before a class that covers topics like rape or domestic violence, but in history at least, that’s just not done — either learn history completely or not at all. Your mass comm or biology major isn’t required to take classes on…

“...the 14 year old boy should probably be left alone to live a good life, just like girls who do the same thing.”

She also mentioned he and his friends got handsy with her ass. Granted, she didn’t react with violence to that assault immediately, but with then being insulted— I can see entirely losing my temper.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Cillian Murphy! Ohhhh, Cillian Murphy. You broke my heart.

Alright, a couple of you are asking me about the GP thing. Here’s the deal, and really why I stuck around as long as I did there. As you know the economy took a dump. I was previously working at a yatch manufacturing plant until I went unemployed. My wife is Taiwanese, and we were in the process of filing to have her…

That's an oversimplification. Boxing's problems are myriad, and most of them have nothing to do with fight fixing. The sport was hurt by its migration to premium cable and pay-per-view, which all but eliminated its exposure to casual sports fans; elite athletes migrated to other sports that offer greater chances of…