Nah.  The cheapskate probably chose Domino’s $5 mediums.  And refused to tip.

According to the OED, it actually comes from Medieval Latin. Decimatus means “to tithe” and the word was retroactively applied to the Roman practice. Word origins are often as much myth as they are fact.

That link is from a year and a half ago?

I keep having dreams about getting caught in nuclear explosions. I was 11 when the Berlin Wall came down. I remember school drills spent hiding under desks. I don’t remember ever have dreams like these.

A library isn’t about what you read, but what you have access to.

In dialogue or in writing? Because trying to force people to suppress verbal tics just leads to the rise of newer, even more grating ones.

Using “decimate” to mean “destroy a huge portion” dates back to 1600, and using “literally” figuratively dates back to the 1700s. Words always have and always will have multiple and potentially contradictory meanings.

This wall will only keep out poor people who carry everything they own on their backs.

Cards Against Humanity is such a wasted space on any list. Anyone who doesn’t know what it is likely doesn’t want to know what it is, and nobody needs a reminder that it exists.

Cards Against Humanity is such a wasted space on any list. Anyone who doesn’t know what it is likely doesn’t want to…

I am. Thank you. I cut ties with him 25+ years ago, and haven’t regretted it a day since then.

Oh yeah, it could be a nightmare. I was lucky that he only got bad once or twice a year, so we weren’t terrified all the time. Of course, that’s it’s own kind of torture, since we also never knew when he might go off or what might trigger it.

he’s not going to abuse ME because I’m the only one who loves him and treats him well.

Fun fact: I first watched that episode while waiting in the airport for a flight. 

This. It’s always been security theater and a waste of time and money. I get the desire to highlight the hypocrisy of the Big Orange Fool, but don’t do so by lending unearned legitimacy to worthless agencies. 

When they refuse to correct errors they admit to, the errors become lies, and this administration is nothing if not perfectly happy with openly lying.

I honked at a bro-truck bastard when he ran a stop sign and then stopped in my lane because of on-coming traffic. He immediately started screaming about how I was lucky his gun wasn’t on him. I don’t think a shooting because their precious truck was made a mockery of by an EV is too difficult to imagine.

The Dems have to stick together for now, because that’s the only way you reach the point where the Republican Party can be snuffed out. But once the fascists are run underground again, the Dems really should split to become the new two parties. 

Agree. It was a perfectly polished take on those games, but still just another of those games. I can’t begrudge anyone for including or excluding it.

I realize you’re not condoning it, but that’s some “arrested solely for resisting arrest” bullshit circular logic right there.

Alternatively, Nick, dig a large hole, get inside it, cover it with planks, and stay there forever.