And yet, both of you are complaining about this...on a sports website, the one place where there is relevancy.

Interesting.

There's so much common exposure to snarking and pettiness floating around that true compliments are a nice reminder of how people have the capacity to be genuinely kind. So I try to be gracious about taking a truly tactful compliment (as opposed to a weaponized compliment that people are so fond of in my family). …

They're so adorable after they hatch.

Are we sure this is Bosh's kid? To me he looks way too Melo.

Gah, I love Aaron Paul and Breaking Bad so much.

Or dreaming that it's the end of the semester of your "senior" year and you haven't gone to any classes. But you're your current age. Or it's the first day of middle school, but you can't find your class/room schedule card and you don't know where you're going. But you're your current age.

Wait, I think I just…

What does it mean when you regularly have dreams that you're late for class.... at your middle school, that you left 16 years ago? 'Cause I'm almost 30 and I have that dream twice a month. I'm outside Miss Taylor's room, I need to get to Mr. Zeigler's room, it's on the other side of the middle school. Again, the…

I got sent a dic pic with the accompanying text "just let me give this to you once." after I nicely turned down a rando I met at a party. He sent it 6 times, then after I finally said "not interested, stop contacting me," he asked for my friend's phone number.

When asked to defend the contract, Redick stepped aside and let the reporter walk by.

Redick: "Don't worry, girl. At this stage in development, it doesn't even look human."

What don't you like about Laura Pepon? I think she's great, her character is so real and fleshed-out. She's like a grown-up Daria. In prison.

Yep. In the past year, I have had my desk vandalized, someone pretend to stalk me to see if I would have a panic attack, and people in the department have boycotted formal department-sponsored dinners because they were unhappy about who was receiving awards or appointments in both internal representation and external…

That. Blows. I have weird issues with authority where I simultaneously fear them and want to tell them to fuck off. I'm also an atheist. I would like to think I wouldn't be cowed into lying about it, but it's probably a whole different situation when some snarling, sanctimonious man-dude is all in face. Yikes.

Yeah, no, her personal history of abuse does not make this "extra sad", nor does it excuse her religious bullying. We need to stop giving adults who were victims of childhood abuse passes on abusing others, full stop. As adults, we know better and we are better.

The marriage of religious fanaticism and competitive sports culture has to simultaneously be one of the most obnoxious and most hilarious products of the American melting pot. Not that people in other countries may not have done it first, but I really think we do it best.

Future make-up artist right there! That was impressive coverage.

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