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Quite, and it might cost Will his A-List ranking.

It was punching down. Take this with a grain of salt because of who is saying it, but he has a point. In particular, making fun of someone for a medical condition, especially for a person who has a well known diagnosis, is dangerous territory if the person is the blunt of the joke as opposed to being in on it (like a comedy roast) and able to give constructive context. It doesn't help that Jada Pinkett Smith is generally unlikable, and definitely deserves the past jokes directed at her questionable marriage life choices (as Rock has done at the Academy Awards previously): that tends to give cover to those claiming she needs to lighten up and ignores all the other people that actually might be hurt hearing that joke. I like Chris Rock, and I will still appreciate his humor after this just the same. He got carried away and made a joke he shouldn't have, and he didn't deserve to be physically attacked for it. I also think JPS has every right to be hurt by it, and that Will Smith deserves some empathy for having a momentary breakdown with catastrophic potential. It's depressing thinking about it.

Oh, I know. I think that's partly why Sir Gawain and The Green Knight gets the attention it does, despite being late medieval. There's a sense of homoeroticism in the work that really seems to mesh with similar themes that often pop up in English Romantic works.

I don't think anyone can wax poetically about Jane Austen's sex life more than Jane Austen, so what would even be the point? Now, waxing poetic about the Sir Gawain's sex life with Sir Bertilak.... that's an impressive feat.

In all seriousness, I think the disturbing part about this whole misadventure is that one of the most bankable stars is being used to feed the worst tendencies of white people. Maria Shriver of all people had this to say: I'm not saying Will has a right to bitchslap Chris in front of millions of people, but tweets like this smack of the kind of hypocrisy that lead to black people being treated differently when they have an unfortunate and very human reaction to something that's painful. It comes across as patronizing. It also somehow comes across as chastising Will without showing an empathy for the other black man involved, all while channeling the dark imagery of domestic violence. Other reactions are also somewhat disturbing, including those that suggest that Jada was using Will as a proxy for her own beef with Chris (in reference to the fact that this is the second time at the Oscars she was the blunt of one of his jokes). To directly refute what Maria was trying to say, love as Will alluded to in his slapdash attempt at an apology / acceptance speech isn't about violence but it is about compassion in the wake of pain and violence. And, whether people want to hear it or not, making fun of someone for a medical condition that is unexplained in addition be disfiguring is painful.... enough to cause the emotional distress that leads to these ugly moments. I get the need to laugh at this. I just can't help but notice that everyone is dancing around the fact that a very serious personal altercation between two well known and loved black entertainers is being reduced to the same finger wagging that other black people get when their very human reactions run afoul of our sense of decency.

Precisely. It's certainly not impossible for him to fire Chekov's gun, but to do it he would almost certainly have to be insane. I saw an article somewhere talking about how close the world was to a nuclear war but for an XO on a Russian submarine during the Bay of Pigs incident disobeying a direct order and refusing to fire a missile. The reality is that Putin might be losing it, but he isn't all powerful and he won't be able to simply fire off a nuke without someone intervening.

If he ends up dropping a WMD, one of two things can happen: WWIII starts by default and his forces are completely overwhelmed by NATO or his own forces are caught in the blast and decimated. The redline term gets thrown around too easily, but nukes, biological, and chemical weapons all implicitly represent an existential threat to the world as a whole.

The US Government isn't completely in the dark about casualties, and its assessment, while considerably less rosy than Ukraine's Defense, still amounts to a staggering amount of casualties in the relatively short amount of time the war has been fought.

I think the fact that he's being able to dig in to some successful places is what is stopping him from dropping a nuke, bioweapon, or chemical weapon. A lot is being made of him gaslighting with the chemical weapon plant accusation and him floating nukes as a last resort, but the significant issue with troop morale make using weapons of mass destruction a non-starter. For him to successfully drop such a weapon, he needs to have firm control of the area or risk triggering a world war type conflict that he can't win and China won't back. The odds were always going to be steep that he would revert to such weapons in the glare of the world spotlight, but the situations where such a weapon might reap marginal benefits all but evaporated once his forces started to get decimated.

My dogs don't like going outside even when it's nice and warm.

I wasn't talking about them: dogs can certainly eat eggs just fine. I mean you personally after you get inundated with egg farts.

Not to question the wisdom, but are you sure you won't regret giving the pups scrambled eggs?

What did you do? Knock her walker over with your head?

How bad does a dude have to be for MD to label him this?

That’s awful. They were using the healthcare system to dispose of you.

Seeing as your happy, there is no reason to respond if you don't feel up to it, but was this some kind of intervention because they thought you were depressed or was it a punitive action because they accused you of being toxic? It's never justified to force someone into mental health protocols no matter what, but the reason behind it can still shed light into what interactions are causing you the most pain.

Nice. They look like awesome chairs.

What brand chair is it?

You are definitely not a bad person. I typically disguise my own anxiety over incidents like this with disgust.

*inner voice* "Scoob, nothing good can come of this." What the fuck?

That’s shocking. He was one of ESPNs biggest NFL analysts.

I mean, I want to see that.

It's a conspiracy. That's why I torch the bread while holding it.

How protest you it?