The difference is that dopey father, troublemaker, bully, incompetent police chief, corrupt politician, and robber baron are all things that people choose to be or can actually do something to change.

A corollary of free will being a burden is the idea of “choice paralysis,” which is when people freeze up and can’t make a decision when there are too many options to choose from. When people have three choices, it’s generally pretty easy to decide which one is best, or at least, which one you’re going to pursue. When…

As usual, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has you covered:

“Not a real place”

Why do these people keep calling allegations like this, “ridiculous”? We all know very well that they’re not ridiculous, that they’re extremely commonplace and that it’s no longer at all surprising when some dude slaps an ass or grabs something they’re not supposed to.

Did you name it? My old Roomba was named Daryl.

Did you name it? My old Roomba was named Daryl.

Do you like Clover better than xplorer2? I bought the latter like 10 years ago and have never looked back. I also wish there was one that was as good on OS X. There’s Path Finder, but I never liked it all that much...

• Cmder to replace cmd.exe. You get tabs that host cmd.exe but improved, or powershell, or some other options.
  

Hopefully a lot of Puerto Ricans who are forced to move because of the hurricane destruction, end up in Florida and flip those electoral votes blue in 2020.

Yeah, but when it’s pluralized, it’s pronounced, “pepperon-eye”. :D

There’s two parts to it (obviously! I can’t believe I have to point this out to you.)

Are you really equating NFL football games and church?

But this guy plays football full-time, and football is a game in which players sustain concussions frequently, from exactly the event that happened here. In addition, the victim was not wearing padding, was not engaged in an activity where being hit like this was likely to occur, and was not physically prepared to…

The victim’s decision to run on to the field was not the cause. The player’s decision to hit the victim was the cause. The player had sufficient opportunity to avoid the event, so I don’t think any blame lies with the victim. The player could have easily chosen not to hit him and completely avoided it.

No, the one where the subject is also named is a better construction because it includes more information without sacrificing too much brevity.

As of this morning, Brianna Brochu is no longer a student at the University of Hartford. She will not be returning to the institution.

Yeah... that’s not what she said in the article. Read it again.

Yes it fucking does! Instead of using “<person> allegedly did <thing>”, the article explicitly says that “<accusing party> SAYS <person> did <thing>“ is better. It’s literally in the first paragraph.

Yes, kids, if you can read and write at a middle school level, if you know like maybe 10 things about the 1980s, and if you can generally keep it in your pants, you too might grow up to be like our paragon of humanity, Not Sure.

Luckily, given his tendency to only go to super-Republican voting states in the south, we don’t really have to concern ourselves with the possibility that Donald Trump will ever be in Seattle, so this disambiguation should stand the test of time.