Seriously. I mostly think sports are boring, but football and combat sports are completely unethical. You can’t ask people to try and make the trade-off between short term rewards/glory and long term brain health. We’re not wired to make a good choice in that situation.

OMG. This was the dumbest fucking article. It could have actually been a good one. “It has not happened in every workplace, of course, and depends in part on company culture and employees’ trust in human resources to appropriately deal with harassment.” seems like the area to investigate. I.e., I’ve known people…

What I don’t get is that even if he weren’t a gross sexual predator, isn’t there a well documented history of his being an abusive bully to his employees and business associates? My sense is that he has really run the gamut of completely unacceptable behavior. Maybe we shouldn’t accept any of it? And he could have…

I’m with you. I saw it and was like, “Holy shit! That’s a terrible relationship. We live in a fucked up society that thinks any of this is okay.”

He would only see the money offer as an opening gambit to a “deal,” and knowing that his erratic behavior would increase the bids, he’d start to act even more recklessly. I don’t think we want to go down that road.

Though with all we’re learning about the effects of CTE, it may be that the negligence of the owners and coaches actually caused a significant portion of the shitiness of the players.

WTF? They’re having the desk manager officiate? So weird. They also manage to be incredibly inarticulate. I almost feel like a scam would have better thought out rationales.

My gym is pretty great that way. They hire formerly obese folks to work the desk, and there is tons of love for everyone making the effort. The classes kill everyone. There’s no one not going out 100% their best, so everyone is struggling with their own limits.

Had to Google Jason Miller. Her blindness is more than metaphoric. That is one ugly dude.

A friend described another friend’s child’s Hebrew school behavior as “Everybody LOOK AT ME! WHY ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT ME!?” Same with these two?

I’ve got a friend from the gym who is a photo retoucher, and he worked on an Ashley Graham spread recently. He said it was great because since they were self-consciously choosing her because of her closer to average body size (while being a way beyond average beautiful person), he didn’t have to do as many unrealistic…

I lived in Dallas when we had babies, and I’d always see these Dallas ladies in full make-up wearing these super expensive but kind of ugly track suits to the grocery store. I actually didn’t realize it was a national thing until just now. It seemed so perfectly suited to Dallas and Houston that I figured it was just…

Mic drop.

We only saw the one dude, but I get stopped by everyone: Mormons, overt racists, people who need directions, anti-war activists, Chabad. I’m always the one they hone in on, especially when my kids are with me. I don’t know why. I mostly hate people, but it must not show.

Yeah. A few years ago, my wife, kids, and I were in DC for spring break and an anti-circumcision activist kind of got in our faces. Anyway, our 10-year-old daughter was asking about why I was okay with male circumcision but not female (the inconsistency the dude was hocking me about). I said, “You know that nub on the…

I was flying out of Hartford a few years ago, and the TSA agents were talking about Kathy Bates going through the line a few minutes earlier. The guy checking licenses recognized her, but she denied it. He was like “I have your license right here. It has your name on it.” She stuck to her guns: “I have no idea what…

Couple of guys in my old synagogue had their new wives lined up while their wives lay on their death beds.

I’m guessing that there are legal implicat ions related mostly to the disolution of these relationships that make it less easily fully transferable to current marriage law. E.g., if only one partner wants to leave the trio or only wants to divorce one of the two, does the whole thing disolve and the remaining two have…

My wife’s maternal grandmother was only able to come to this country and escape Nazi Germany as a Jew in the late 30s because she was engaged to someone already here. Innocent people are going to die because of every aspect of this terrible policy, but this particular aspect hits VERY close to home for my family.

Aside from the airport Shake Shack, the lines here in Queens actually aren’t all that daunting.