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Jordan, is that you?

I’m a Bears fan and I hate Aaron Rodgers. I’m glad his no-talent brother is embarrassing him on national TV. Now he knows how it feels.

We just throw anyone with the slightest mental illness in jail. The entire county and court system should have to pay. A witness bond that leads to a person being put in jail is so cruel I can’t believe its constitutional. The prosecutors who are supposed to be caretakers of the system forget their job is to seek…

Well the problem is police can’t differentiate between brown people who forgot their ID and between brown people who never had an ID, so they just fuck with all brown people they see regardless of whether or not they’re doing anything wrong. So his statement is absolutely true and your statement is very bad snark that…

She lied. She said they never spoke about the song. Clearly they did. Who knows when he put that line in? You got played by her victim card.

What a beautiful mess. Taylor Swift should just keep quiet. No reason to blow this up anymore than necessary. You got lying. Deal with it.

The homeowners version sounds more plausible ... and much, much worse. He should go to prison.

They are not very smart and tend to gravitate towards simple explanations. Most conspiracies, once you get past the bells and whistles, are just simple explanations for very complex and hard to understand forces.

Payet was unbelievable. Happy for French fans.

What I find hilarious about this, is Deadspin’s utter disdain for Simmons won’t allow them to mention that he was fired for criticizing the NFL - i.e. for being an independent columnist. If this was any other person, you guys would be holding him out like a saint. Petty journalistic jealousy is a bad place to lay a…

You just described why I watch.

I’m black and I find them funny.

Justin Bieber is like the Donald Trump of pop music. He’ll be president of Canada in 40 years (assuming Trump doesn’t evade Canada).

Hmmm?

Yes! My Gawd. Why can’t I just draft MJ to play on my current Bulls team? Why can’t I add Bird to the Celtics? Why are these game designers so wed to the idea of current rosters and rules and the like? I understand some people want to sim the game, but most of the time I’m playing with my friends and we just want to…

This is like a masterclass in people who don’t understand what the NYT author was stating and do not understand how eliminating “I feel” will make them more successful in arguing for whatever issue they are pushing whether it is at work, at home or at school.

You’re right that many men of color and women (of all colors) speak this way. Its a bad habit and we should move away from it. I think this is also the difference between people who persuade for a living (lawyers) and people who don’t. Its simply more persuasive when you eliminate the “I feel” language.

It doesn’t “mean” anything. Words have multiple meanings. “Becky” can mean something to your friends and something completely different to a different group of people. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

This entire Becky debate is stupid. Words have different meanings depending on the context.