Square :-(

My dad did that exact same thing while barefoot when I was a baby.

Must have gotten lucky.

So your problem is with my use of the words "more or less arbitrarily?" Do you actually think I meant to imply that they were just pulling regions out of a hat with zero regard for any of the truths on the ground?

Already read that and it changes nothing about what I said, smartass. They were still taking French and British aims into account, which is hardly a recipe for establishing healthy and self-determining states. And and the overarching criticism I've always read regarding Sykes-Picot in particular was that it treated…

OK cool, don't elaborate or anything.

"The upstart insurgency has carefully crafted a narrative describing what it sees as the struggle against the national divisions and boundaries of the Middle East drawn by the Western powers after the First World War — what it calls "Crusader partitions" (a narrative that's disturbingly similar to the one promoted by…

I would just like to point out that somehow this song called "Booty" required ten fucking writers: Cory Rooney, Jennifer Lopez, Benny Medina, Chris Brown, Asia Bryant, Pitbull, Diplo, Lewis D. Gittus, Tedra Renee Wilson, and Danny Omerhodic.

Counterpoint: Fine, you do look cooler in jeans than I do in shorts. But the tide is turning against you as the rest of society realizes, "Man, it's 91 degrees and that guy is wearing pants. He looks good, but how the fuck can he stand wearing those pants? Either he's hiding an absolutely disgusting skin condition or…

If he'd said something like, "this behavior is abhorrent, but what does it say about this country that we put dogs on such a pedestal blah blah blah," I'd have had a different impression. Instead, it was something more akin to, "It's just a dog, who cares? Other people have done worse."

Again, if a person's first instinct after reading that this guy lost his job is to say, "Well, that's not fair!" I really believe there's something seriously fucking wrong with him.

I wasn't referring to the OP as 'similarly psychopathic.' I meant wife beaters, child abusers, etc.

Aaand they all should have gotten canned, too, if there was any justice in this world.

Sounds like someone's kicked a puppy or two in their day as well.

It seems like the people criticizing you are largely of the belief that not telling them is akin to remaining in the closet or denying who she is. And I don't think that's the case. You're right, in the sense that nobody's day-to-day life is going to change from the news. And they're right, in the sense that she has…

In a bag. In a dumpster.

Given the machinations behind Dempsey's trip to Seattle, doesn't it seem likely that Jones had a hand in picking his destination? Something like, "I'm cool with either Boston or Chicago?"

That is an incredibly apt comparison. +1 to you, Capt.

Oh good. One of Chicago's boys in blue decided to weigh in.