I know there's some truth to this idea. I used to be one of those guys and I chalk it up to immaturity. IT's the difference between knowing that you yourself are a decent person and wouldn't ever do horrible things and gaining a little perspective and understanding how things can be deeply hurtful and damaging.

Why not morally? I think we all respect the courage of a victim who is willing come forward and tell their story, why not also respect a witness who does the same? The desire to stay out of potential troubling situations that we can possibly avoid is a basic human desire - it's self-preservation. Overcoming that…

I agree with you, absolutely: and I also think we can recognize that we can trust women in their recounting of a traumatic experience while also understanding that a third-party witness is useful for formal proceedings, legal or not. Like, I am grateful for him procedurally and not morally — but grateful, certainly,…

It is also Gawker's, and Valleywag's, and Max Read's, and Hamilton Nolan's, and Sam Biddle's, etc.

I'm eagerly awaiting Drew to be quoted out of context or completely misunderstood in order to create a scathing rebuttal.

Now 90 percent of all internet thinkpieces are dedicated to explaining why you should have a problem with something you originally had no problem with.

What Drew Magary gets wrong about the internet's "problem" problem.

You didn't find the Dark Knight entertaining?

The TMQ thing reminds me of old Simmons columns where he would refer to where players had finished in previous years on his NBA Trade Value list as though it were objective data. It'd be like, "Paul Pierce was in the top ten for eight straight years! He was clearly better than people thought." That's you using your…

No no NO. It's not that he has too much on his plate, or that he's not fully in control of the material. It's that he's gotten to that point as a director where he's legitimately convinced that his movies don't HAVE to trim anything, because everything in his movies is one hundred percent necessary and hell, genius.…

Don't forget that your view of entertainment is different than that of others. I feel much more entertained having to actually pay attention to everything going on in a film rather than just shut my brain off and drool at the explosions, CG camera fodder and douchey cars. If your brain isn't capable of handling a film…

I hear Fast and Furious 73 and 74 are coming out in December and January, respectively.

Is it ok to genuinely like anything anymore? Dude is a handful-of-times-in-a-generation talent who had one of the best offensive seasons in NBA history last year and gave probably the most heartfelt MVP speech in American sports history. Who the fuck is worthy of our admiration in contrast? Please do tell.

get this right..... the royals were very very very nice to me when they approached me. They told me the owner was very very upset. The conversation was great but then denied to have occurred by royals. After I produced pictures of the event occurring. ... then they said I hated the marlins and that I only wear…

What a dumb argument point. "Is athletics a right?"

Jay Bilas fights the good fight. He's one of the few major media voices who actually cares about the plight of athletes with regards to the NCAA. I'm more than willing to overlook the occasional silly Twitter feud.

I realize it's a lengthy, even tedious series of posts, but Jay Bilas is doing a crucial service for the world in highlighting an important truth: lawyers on the internet act like annoying assholes about sports.

I agree that it's "noteworthy" and worth mentioning in the report, but if it's so obviously noteworthy then you think they wouldn't have to go out of their way to re-order the events to make it look like Tony Stewart was more involved than he was.

"It wasn't us! It was the damn laser pointer!"—'91 to '94 Bills

I'm not sure Drew sited anything. He probably sighted them before he cited them, though. There's also the whole "things that actually happened aren't really rumors anymore" angle to consider. The girl really did commit suicide; the guy really did fall from the tower. OTOH — Manti Te'os "girlfriend" still walks the…