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Many people are so impressionable and so poisoned by social and regular media that they don’t even realize that “BernieBro” stories are clickbait garbage they’ve been sold as an actual phenomenon. I’ve met one, maybe two people offline who have even heard of the term, none of whom thought it represented some…

I don’t see how that’s ridiculous given that it was exactly what you said at the time, but I’m glad to hear that it isn’t the case.

What a ridiculous way of coming to an important decision. Everyone can agree that there are people with gross thought processes supporting every single candidate. But only supporters of Bernie can have the particular thought process that turned you off, because a female cannot “overcome her gender” and vote for a…

I came for the barnacle jokes

Exactly. Look at the ESPN website now: Barnwell and Lowe have led the front page several times. At Grantland, they led the tiny box on the front page. It’s a big difference.

Bryan Curtis is a brilliant writer. He and Brian Phillips were the best at Grandland in my opinion. Great to see Curtis will be at the Ringer.

Why was the news lady who fell over the bucket of grapes announcing the all-star game?

+1 smooth and silky stone

Nothing creates an orgy of virtue signalling like when a horrible person dies. We get it, you’re a compassionate, loving, empathic person because you’re not glad Scalia is dead. Your 100 hateful, angry posts are just further proof of your love of the good. We’re so proud of you.

Right, and people forget that, due to our ridiculous notion of life tenure for Article III judges, we actually needed him to die to leave office. Dude loved to whine about the state of social progress, but he wasn’t retiring.

It’s absolutely a religious thing, though maybe tangentially. Death of other people confronts us with our own mortality, which freaks people the fuck out. Religious people’s response to being thusly freaked is to reach for platitudes and solace, hence “thoughts & prayers” and “don’t speak ill of the dead.” It’s ritual.

“If I was shorter, I don’t think I’d be intimidating,” Cousins said. “They’d be like, ‘Oh, suck it? Don’t mind if I do!’ Because I’m big, intimidating.”

This is one of the more succinct yet complete misunderstandings of the law that I’ve ever seen on here, which is quite an achievement.

We got Chipotle before 99% of the rest of the country did. Whether true or not, brands think we’re a good barometer for how something will fare nationally. See also politics.

It's not your fault

The Mother Theresa part wouldn’t be too difficult.

I vaguely remember that, but like all facts related to downtown, they exist in this Shroedinger’s Box where I don’t know whether I really know them or not. And I live right next door in the Short North. Longtime residents have a weird relationship with downtown: it was a wasteland for so long, now it’s a much more…

Sorry, I trudged down High Street for my free Chipotle burrito. Everyone else nailed it for the most part.

There are two prominent rivers in Columbus: The Scioto, a fairly significant river that flows through most of the state and into the Ohio river, and the Olentangy, a tributary of the Scioto. The Olentangy flows…

I can vaguely recall seeing it at city hall and/or the downtown police station, but my mind immediately wrote it off as something unrelated to geography, like the POW/MIA flag. I’d kind of like to interrogate my subconscious on this: