One has to think that the success of Matthew Boyd last season helps make the Cubs more appealing to a guy like King

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some of the more smooth-brained of the State College crowd think they're getting Kalen DeBoer

Apparently CFB's version of Scott Boras isn't happy about what they did to Franklin (who is a client of his). So anytime they get close to someone he's fucking PSU over. We love to see it

Something tells me that Olivia Nuzzi intentionally sought editors who wouldn't say "no"

I write my way towards understanding a lot. I also find it easier to change/fix a bad sentence vs crafting a great one out of whole cloth

This is interesting. I work in my university's writing center and I've noticed several writers who come in have clearly done serious thinking/engagement but it doesn't seem like anyone has taught them how to put that thinking/engagement into prose

I know nothing about Argentina’s record on trans/queer issues…but a staunchly Catholic country recently governed by a fascist dictatorship and a history of apartheid doesn’t seem like it would be welcoming. But Britain must be a shitty place to be trans

Ironically, eggs might be the only price that’s down. Just paid $2 for a dozen…the rest of the grocery store however is crazy

“Jesuit Jews” reminding me of when my mom planned to send me to a Jesuit HS if I didn’t get into a magnet school. We appreciate good education and the Jesuits do that

Who doesn’t like astronauts? Why did they think this would work?

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Interestingly, this obsession isn’t limited to the right. In the 90s a prominent queer theorist argued that a passage in a Henry James novel where a character takes a dump was inherently queer and erotic despite no textual support for such interpretations. See also biphobia, “gold star lesbians” etc

My earnest answer is that Paul of Tarsus (St Paul) imbued the west with an obsession with genitals—especially other people’s genitals. The current freakout about trans ppl is but the latest example. Other examples include purity culture, anti-masturbation rhetoric, anti-choice laws etc

Bush supported the Federal Marriage Amendment and made it a huge part of his re-election campaign. No part of the Bush 43 admin was using queer rights to support the war

They didn’t even let the families finish sitting Shiva before they started gloating

It's a combo of perfect being the enemy of the good & laziness. The want to do this one neat trick and be done & not have to mess with it any more. It's the false equivalency that really gets me tho. Like yes, annoying procedural incrementalism is in fact preferable to extrajudicial killings.

what a lot of people are calling "gentle parenting" is really just permissive parenting

Yeah Hillary got a lot wrong in 2016, but she was dead on about the fundamental incompatibility of Trump and democracy