Why is it that if a guy takes a handoff, runs it into the end zone and the moment he breaks the plain it’s a score, even if the ball comes out immediately after he breaks that plain? Yet if you have a situation like the above where he clearly catches the ball and reaches across the plain, with possession, and the ball…

On a run: the smallest sliver of football must touch the invisible world-spanning plane for it to be a touchdown.

I don’t know what’s going on with me today - maybe it’s Cheetolini getting his ass handed to him last night, maybe it’s The Honorable Omarosa getting hers handed to her, maybe the drugs finally kicked in - but “...that is not the Rude Negro I am familiar with” gave me a giggling fit. And I mean no offense to anyone, I…

And it’s not like Paulson is eighteen or Holland’s student/employee. They’re grown adults who met and fell in love. It’s the same reason I don’t have a problem with much older men having younger wives if “younger” means “mid thirties and I wasn’t earmarked at fifteen at my dance recital.”

Those cheekbones are just out of control. Imagine if the two of them were able to have a child, it’d be like one of those Japanese steel knives.

A centipede crawled into my laptop fan and died last year, and I’m absolutely convinced my computer’s quirks are the centipede’s tiny spirit haunting me.

Tangentially related: when my grandfather died about 10 years ago, one of the pieces of furniture my grandmother gave me when she moved out of the old house was a big, beautiful, oak desk and a matching chair. They brought it home with them from Germany when my grandfather was stationed there as an officer in the US…

I guess as far as dictators go, it takes Juan to know Juan.

No dilemma. As long as the money isn’t going to said dictator, it’s a piece of history before anything else.

It’s gorgeous, but probably haunted. So you have to factor that into the equation.

No dilemma, that is other than being poor. That’s a dilemma

in some alternate reality I would like to think this would be the news we talk about and try to resolve not Trump for a year

The racing looks like fun.

The spectators are why I live in the Industrial North.

But of course there’s a guy in a dick-and-balls costume within the first 30 seconds. And only twenty feet from pedobear...

I agree with you, but the organization’s willingness to turn a blind eye is often connected to the perception of power within the organization. It is true that harassment often comes from peers, but it is the management’s responsibility to take care of it.

My background is academia, and in my experience it is not necessarily the smartest who get to the top, but it is definitely those who want to get there. They need to be aggressive enough to push their way to the top, and narcissistic enough to think that they are entitled to do so. Does an excess of this make someone…

Punch him in the dick next time. See how much he likes unwanted touching when the shoe’s on the other foot.

If you major in Poli Sci in college, you learn pretty quick it’s 60% nerdy white boys lacking social skills desperate for a hand job, 30% people with power lust, and 10% reasonable people with healthy life goals. We can extrapolate from here what that means for workplace culture...

John’s ultimate explanation about his reluctance to demonstrate his intelligence as a consequence of growing up on a colony full of blue collar-types with little patience for brainy people was interesting, but also a bit unsatisfying as a one-paragraph synopsis for an entire lifetime of self-muting behavior.