Eh, a smart and capable 17-year old reacts to being talked down to by just shrugging it off. So some adults think you’re dumb, so what?

I always alternated between grubhub, seamless, and delivery.com, and honestly if there was a difference I couldn’t find it. Most restaurants seemed to either be on all three or none.

It’s kind of plausible, though. Politicians really do rarely handle their own social media because they’re almost always olds. It does seem like the kind of job a young, inexperienced staffer would be put on.

When I was your age, young lady, it was considered poor manners to address one’s elders in such a tone, or with such profanity.

I went to the Fox News website and the first story I found on the shooting shows the video of the shooting.

Nah; Fox isn’t going to touch this one. Close to zero pundits or politicians are going to publicly defend this cop, and some of those who defended the police in the Brown and Garner incidents are going to call for Slager to be convicted, which they will then use as proof that they’ve always been reasonable about the…

Now wait, there have been a significant number of police charged and convicted for murder. I agree that the police now act with amazingly impunity and that the Brown and Garner cases were egregious examples of that impunity, but I think it doesn’t really serve anyone to use the hyperbole that this is the first time a…

Good, we need more anti-Rubio people down here, though I think he would have an unfortunately good chance of winning Florida.

You’re identifying the problem, though: in order to win the primary, Mitt had to swing hard to the right and attack Obama in fairly ineffective ways that appealed to your tea party uncle but didn’t do much for swing voters. Obama won because he showed himself to be more of a moderate than Romney in 2012. And Obama…

Why are they constantly rebooting Spider-Man? I really don’t understand it.

Yup; the GOP doesn’t understand that it’s middle-class suburban swing voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan who decide these elections. And one of the defining cultural characteristics of middle-class suburbanites is that they spook easily and won’t vote for an extremist (of either party).

I really think the Internet Rage Machine has gotten to the point of absurdity. If someone says something you think is wrong, you can call them on it. And then let it go. Or remember it and keep an eye on them if you feel the need. But this idea that there are no misdemeanors; EVERYTHING is a capital crime and saying…

It’s possible in general, though not sure about with the drug this guy is taking. There is also a debate in domestic abuse research and advocacy over the role of drugs and mental illness in the prevalence of domestic abuse; the current protocols typically used largely ignore it in favor of (what are in my mind…

As noted above, he wouldn’t get anywhere near what he would be making if he could still play. If he sued in Florida that could be a ridiculously low number if he is considered permanently disabled, like less than a thousand dollars a week.

I guess I get to do the minority report:

Wow, reading through Franzen's piece I was shocked how many factual errors he got wrong on science and history. Then reading the Audobon piece made me realize how it wasn't just incompetent but dishonest too. Before I was just willing to believe Franzen was just very ignorant.

“I did read your previous post. I just don’t believe you”

"there are technically no established legal protections"

I don't think it's a backward Euro-justice narrative, as more a backward Italo-justice narrative; the Italian justice system is just absurd. If the Knox trial didn't prove it, the conviction of Italian seismologists for manslaughter for not warning people about an earthquake certainly did.

As a 6'8 man I heartily endorse your predilections.