I think you said this very well. Clearly I have an anti-Union stance. I am one who believes the union represents the weaker workers while holding back the stronger. Your argument is as close as can come to trying to convince me I'm a cynic swayed by the way the most public and poorly controlled unions and that perhaps…

Oh please. Smith is just making the absolutely 100% true and fair point that this moralizing is only seized upon when the player is a marginal one. The Cowboys had no problem with the huge backlash against signing Greg Hardy. The Eagles happily gave Michael Vick a contract.

Same here. The headline definitely made me go, “What’s happening in Florida now?”

What does “major” political campaign mean? Does it mean federal office? Governorship? Without that information, this could literally be any political campaign that occurred in 2008.

heck, just reading, I feel bad for you too!

Beef tongue is delicious. You’re missing out.

I have one...

When I was about 9 I decided I wanted to make some brownies by myself, I had a box of Betty Crocker brownie mix and I start making it. Well, at some point I realized that we didn’t have any oil, we did however have a bottle of italian salad dressing. In my mind, I thought using the oil from the salad dressing was a…

My older brother (we were both teens) once reheated and ate a two-cup microwaveable container of what he thought was mashed potatoes and gravy, only to discover afterward that it was just gravy. He had diarrhea for several days and I laughed at him. It’s not as funny now that I see it written.

As a kid I was taught it was polite to eat everything your host puts in front of you. On a family trip to Boston when I was nine, I think, we went to a nice restaurant. The kind of place with great service. I drank a glass of water, and somebody was immediately there to refill it. I dutifully drained it. And it was…

One of my best friends in high school was Romanian. His family emigrated when he was 9, just before the revolution.

Oh - I got this won.

My first time at a sushi place in Japan, I ate an entire plate of pickled ginger before having a bite of sushi.

My little sister was five years old when she accompanied my grandmother to one of her art shows. About halfway through, little sis walked up to grandma and says, “Mamaw, this lemonade is gross.” It was what was left of her second glass of champagne.

This is exactly the kind of person I want representing us on the world stage.

I would rather watch Chopped reruns every week than Jaguars Hard Knocks.

This really should have been the Patriots’ punishment.

One of the things I value so much, reading this story, is how clearly it shows the way that reporting someone isn’t always and shouldn’t be assumed to be a horrible excision of deep personal trauma—that the author reported him with the primary goal of keeping other women safe.

Amusingly enough, in small rural farming communities that have been known to have good groundwater, Coke likes to move their plants there. What happens over the next few years is fascinating. Basically, the Coke bottling plant begins to use up a huge portion of the groundwater faster than it replenishes, leading to…