Oh, golly. I'll never recover from the devastation.

You raised a year old comment. I did not. If you can objectively look at what’s going on in the South and say that, even as it tries to revive legal discrimination, as it fails women and children, as it preserves some notion that people who fought for the right to own other people, that those states are worth praise,…

The white guy who went to Haverford is your justification for ignoring the fact that a statewide office, which isn't limited by district, just popular vote, is somehow in danger of being gerrymandered? You don't understand electoral politics. You'd have a slight shot on voter ID, but even then, not really.

Statewide office makes gerrymandering immaterial. If that's all you got, then weak sauce.

Well, name a dude that inspires you. He may not have found inspiration in much of the woman-authored fiction and non-fiction he’s read. That’s not impossible, because inspiration is just like finding appeal in art...it’s there or it isn’t.

If you can look at the people the South elects and the political policies that are popular in most souther states, and still not think, “Fuck the South”, is reasonable, then I’m not the one with the problem.

You’re reading me incorrectly. Where you see “excuse”, other people, including professionals, see “person in need of psychiatric care”. I don’t approve of her conduct, but the vitriol is amazing. Are all people with problems “pieces of shit”? (The answer, btw, is no.)

Well, I’m sure you were an angel in high school. Of course, you probably had nothing like the familial dysfunction Solo enjoyed.

Education does not confer “overqualified” status. Every job has to be learned before one can claim they’re qualified, let alone overqualified. Then, there are the intangibles, such as time management, communication, teamwork, initiative, accepting that every gig has some mundane requirements, etc.

Yep, that 6'10" 350 lb nephew was really in danger, especially after he hit her with a broomstick.

Yeah, she’s so awful in objective comparison to the huge number (comparatively) of male professional athletes who are arrested for various and sundry crimes, or suddenly have women they have abused”withdraw” complaints or fail to cooperate. Get your head out of your ass.

No, it’s not. Do some reading. Find out for yourself if big acts (to which I was referring) are overcharging.

You’re wrong. Almost every concert is actually underpriced, because the secondary market is clear indication that, regardless of face value, people will pay significantly more to see most acts.

Bands don’t control the prices on the secondary market, demand does. People paid obscene amounts because they wanted to; they were under no compulsion.

All he does is catch touchdowns...

You know when people try to rationalize crap like this by saying,”everyone has a right to an opinion”? Bullshit. When your opinion is utterly invalid, contra to established science, you don't have a right to disagree.

So what? Coke used to cost a nickel. They (Plaza) weren’t under any compulsion to make the deal, but they made it. Those are the breaks.

If the employees didn’t do what they were supposed to do, and they were getting paid to do a job (no matter what, when you’re hourly, it doesn’t matter what you’re told to do, you’re getting paid by the hour), they deserved a little bit of the shit she gave them. She had a contract and the law on her side; anyone who…

Just once (because I’m in the small minority of tall, big, in shape dudes) I’d love to see someone tell me how to pack my XL/XXL shirts and 48-50l suit coats and Blazers (I’m a 34w, so pants aren’t as big a deal) into a conventional suitcase. Guys like me are not unicorns.

I should say for the record that I’m glad lots of people like Shonda Rimes shows. She has women that are pivotal, not window dressing. Now that I’ve said (written ) that, the writing on her shows is execrable. She and her staff blow by things like legal and medical ethics, regulatory issues and law in a way that can…