My family’s oil furnace went bad and woke up with black stuff all over the house and was blowing black stuff out my nose for two days. That was scary.
Can Tina cant in a cantina?
https://deadspin.com/minnesota-uniteds-collin-martin-comes-out-as-gay-1827243688
Minnesota United midfielder Collin Martin became the only active openly gay man in American sports on Friday, coming out publicly with a message on Twitter and a very cool photo ahead of his team’s Pride Night game.
From the note:
“I have been out as a gay man for many years to my family and friends, and this includes my teammates. I have played Major League Soccer for 6 seasons: 4 seasons with DC United and 2 seasons with Minnesota United. Today, I’m proud that my entire team and the management of Minnesota United know that I am gay. I have received only kindness and acceptance from everyone in Major League Soccer and that has made the decision to come out publicly that much easier.”
While this is a cool story, he better hurry up if he wants to get married to another man.
Minnesota allowed gay marriage starting in 2013. I don’t see what would change that.
People are sick. Guy threatens to harm FCC Chair’s family. Even if you think net neutrality is important, it’s not that important.
There are bits of truth in everyone’s posts on the 5 second rule (some more than others, granted).
5 seconds of just staring at someone is a long time but if it were a rule it could be abused or lead to misunderstanding.
Mostly I agree with Jay and mfm that we live in a messed up culture that finds this kind of standard reasonable.
I think many people are increasingly rule-bound in their thinking and that’s a problem.
If any of you have sons, consider helping them show interest in girls in ways other than staring at them. It’s a thin line between bashful and creep.
I think it’s sad that we live in a messed up culture that still encourages victim blaming.
Okay.
I’m curious about the views of those who don’t think all guns should be banned but think mass shootings indicate a need for more gun control. What does the Annapolis shooting mean to you?
thin line between bashful and creep?
Let’s say you’re in 8th grade, staring at a cute girl all the time but clueless what to do. You could construe that as creepy when the kid is just shy and awkward. As that guy ages, the scale tips increasingly in the creepy direction, though he’s still just awkward and clueless.
Two movie examples of staring people are “Spiderman Homecoming” and “Love Actually,” in the latter a female stares at her male colleague but is terrified to do anything about it.
There are bits of truth in everyone’s posts on the 5 second rule (some more than others, granted).
5 seconds of just staring at someone is a long time but if it were a rule it could be abused or lead to misunderstanding.
Mostly I agree with Jay and mfm that we live in a messed up culture that finds this kind of standard reasonable.
I think many people are increasingly rule-bound in their thinking and that’s a problem.
If any of you have sons, consider helping them show interest in girls in ways other than staring at them. It’s a thin line between bashful and creep.
Most post-shooting debates and headlines focus on the evils of “assault rifles” with many people saying they don’t want to ban guns. In this case it appears that an “assault rifle” wasn’t used. So there’s less traction for the story outside of seeing it as a tragedy. Except for the minority of people who do want to ban guns.
I agree with all of this. My problem is that anyone that stares at an innocent person for prolonged periods of time are beyond saving. There’s no help for them. I don’t think we should start restricting ourselves based on those people’s defects.
Harsh.
I look forward to a special socially conscious edition of Casablanca:
Here’s looking at you, strong and independent woman, for an appropriate amount of time.
I still guilt my mother for disposing of my ungodly He-Man figures.
I don’t look at Frink’s posts for more than 5 seconds out of fear they will report me themselves.
So you’re in favor of their big government, anti-consumer, anti-gay, anti-privacy decisions?
This could make us be stuck with a conservative Supreme Court for decades. I think we need 4-8 year limits on SCOTUS justices.
On balance, I like a conservative Court much more than a liberal one. Two big issues I’d like the Court to reverse are its broad reading of interstate commerce and the leeway given to administrative agencies to interpret law. As frustrating as it can be for all of us, I’d like the Court to leave more issues in the hands of the other two branches and the states. There are definitely areas where I think the conservative justices are mistaken - like on the cellphone warrant case. And there are “pro-consumer” cases like this where I think only the most conservative justices got it right.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
The second greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that Starbucks has good coffee.
I don’t know why you get that sense. I’m pretty pleased about getting another conservative justice.
There are no libertarian-minded rightwingers in our federal government. It was the rightwingers on the Supreme Court that dissented on the ruling against fascist police officers that don’t want to have warrants to spy on people’s phones. If you’re a “libertarian-minded conservative” and you support rightwing judges then you are a total hypocrite.
Lucky for me I don’t have that conflict 😉
But judges?
I don’t understand.
Frink occasionally mocks conservatives/Republicans who rationalize Trump’s victory because at least we get judges we like. The implication is “but judges” is a weaksauce excuse for Trump.
It’s a “weaksauce” excuse because the judges that conservatives want are horrible. They’re typically family-values, police state, corporate piles of shit.
Well if that’s the kind of thing a conservative likes, that sounds like a pretty good excuse. I take Frink’s phrasing to mean that even if you like those judges that isn’t a good enough excuse for Trump.
I think many conservatives will rethink their support of a conservative court once they see how certain issues are decided. When it comes to privacy issues especially the libertarian-minded conservatives won’t always be pleased.
As they say, “Darkness rises and Light to meet it”.
Butt judges.
2.75/10.00
An all-time high for me.
But judges?
I don’t understand.
Frink occasionally mocks conservatives/Republicans who rationalize Trump’s victory because at least we get judges we like. The implication is “but judges” is a weaksauce excuse for Trump.
I don’t totally disagree but clearly judges are a big deal.
Either that or it was a typo and I left out the second “t.” (I hope DE offers no insight on that.)
But judges?
Dinner is off the table.
Now I want to take DE out to dinner.
Probably even more not interested.
I sniggered.
Now I want to take DE out to dinner.
Court today struck down as a violation of free speech California’s requirement that pregnancy centers provide information on availability of state services, including abortion.
Haven’t made my mind up about the reasoning but my favorite sentence in Breyer’s dissent is “Really?”