This is funnier than it has any right to be.

Yikes. Really? That's depressing.

I don't see how this makes sense. The referees' compensation shouldn't be measured against yours or mine or that of any other regular schmoe; it should be measured against the wealth their work creates. Should we begrudge NFL players for making millions of dollars? Of course not: their work generates billions of…

Antoine Walker: ♬ Happy birthday to you ♬

Aw come on - those aren't bikinis! I was all set to rip my eyeballs out and crush them in my fists and everything!

And the replacement referee has just shot and killed Brandon Weeden!

Oh, that's great.

Wow! From -200° at 7am to 346° at noon? That's the fastest five-hour increase in degrees since the last time George O'Leary typed up his résumé.

That may be so, but I wouldn't count on it. As everyone's been in such a hurry to point out, the NFLRA referees have day jobs (many in well-compensated fields at that). They have a little bit better ability to weather a work stoppage than the Players' Association, so they may not be in any big hurry to trade their…

No, it isn't "making them look greedy." It's making them look like they're doing exactly what every worker on the planet should be doing "in this economy": fighting tooth-and-nail to protect their compensation from management.

Why should they make concessions? The NFL can't even pretend to demonstrate a need for concessions from the referees: as the above article makes perfectly clear, the dispute is over a minute fraction of a minute fraction of the league's revenue. In addition, as the past three weeks have amply demonstrated, the NFL's…

I love that she thinks the referees should be motivated to give up their pension (and their negotiating leverage as a union) by the shittiness of the NFL's product in their absence. That might be the funniest thing I've read all day.

Honestly, I don't think there are any newish shows that I watch with any regularity. I'm pretty out of touch. D'oh.

I want to like that show, as well as Chuck's Eat the Street, but I just can't get past Chuck himself. I find him dreadfully dull, and also he looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger's less-pumped nephew.

Great. +1

Oh man, this is wonderful.

"That's great, thanks. And their home addresses?"

[dying]

"Furthermore, upon review, it is the NFL Officiating Department's determination that President John Kennedy was killed by a falling refrigerator made of eyeballs."