According to this, the AP Style Guide recommends “died by suicide,” “killed himself,” or “took own life,” and is against the phrasing, “committed suicide.”

Hamilton Nolan?

Haha I may just have an unfairly inflated opinion of the average sports fan. I agree with all of that where the most rabid fans are concerned; that sounds like an accurate depiction of their demographic. I just sort of thought they were a minority in terms of revenue. That they were a loud, vocal and relatively…

Unions were originally created to help protect the rights and safety of all workers and to make sure that the employees got a fair deal at the bargaining table.

I don’t think my proposal should be mandatory for all unions; I’d just like to see it as an option for some organizations to opt into, and I’ve never heard of anyone trying it. Purely a PR move, given that I don’t think it would affect most non-celebrity employees. It’d just be a public level of accountability to…

Unionization as it’s currently known made total sense in the early 20th century. The world’s changed a bit since then.

Again...this would not be a widely used mechanism.

Yeah, basically. I wish unions were different from what they are. I thought I specified criminality as a requirement for banishment...I meant to, at least. But I didn’t. My bad.

My problem isn’t with the NFLPA. It’s with organized labor generally. I’m not saying Unions ought to have a character clause that automatically kicks out anyone convicted of a crime in their personal life.

I’m pro-organized labor because it makes the best of a bad situation, but I do wish unions functioned more like a company and less like an attorney / paid advocate.

Well, he/she says he/she worked for the campaign seven years ago. The slip-up with the reporter just recently happened. So it’d make sense to say, “I worked there seven years ago, I just slipped up, and now this person is running again and I don’t know what to do....”

What about 2016?

Yeah, at first I thought you’d have to limit it to Clinton, a handful of Republicans from their presidential clown car, and any remotely big name (or even a small name in a swing district) from the US House of Representatives.

Oh, fuck off. The whining directed at me specifically is too pointless to respond to so I’ll address another one of your comments.

When I was 14 I worked for a McDonald’s. An elderly lady in her Sunday best came to the counter to complain about a mess of ketchup near the soda fountain, so I went over with a damp rag to clean it up.

It’s the best of the hot pot meats.

When an English cricketer sees this and decides to try adding actual petrol because his team needs a spark, it won’t be half as funny. Will probably be a bit brighter, though.

It’s not a major coincidence that the people most likely to criticize Emma and Anon above are often huge fans of Ayn Rand and cannot begin to imagine why a person might sacrifice their own comfort in service of unnamed others.

The liberal knee-jerk reaction that says “Sure! It’s all okay!” is just as dumb as the conservative knee-jerk reaction that says “No! Never okay! Missionary only!”

Agreed completely. I watched it for the first time in about a decade this Christmas with my whole family and actually laughed out loud. I was pretty damn drunk by the time the movie started, but still...It’s a great movie.