In all honesty, I don't think this is remotely comparable to the "selfies at serious places" thing. Public monuments (such as to 9/11 or the holocaust) are places of group mourning and remembrance, they belong to everyone and thus visitors should show respect to both those being honoured as well as the living…

None of these beat Chalupa Batman

I think the point is actually somewhere in between your two positions. There's nothing wrong per se with "jock culture". Yes, at times it can amplify unhealthy social tendencies, but the same can be said for any group environment. I think the bigger problem is the social system in which it is embedded, that is…

He has to try for home before he can be awarded the base on obstruction.

I know music is an opinion thing and all, but honestly I think if you made lists of top 100 songs and top 100 albums of this century Kanye would have at least one entry in each list, so I'd say that yeah he has made a few contributions to society.

Honestly though, they were mandatory at my high school and I learned nothing. I mean, I understand the rationale, but in the format they are delivered (or at least were delivered, and it really wasn't thaaaat long ago), you don't learn much that is all that useful. In sewing class we learned to make an apron from a…

That's kind of the point. Sure, it tells you if a team (or QB) is doing well, but there's no value to it at all in a statistical sense. How stupid would it sound if a coach claimed that the most important stat to evaluate his players, prepare for upcoming opponents, etc was the team's win-loss record.

I just don't get it. I mean, 2/3 of men would be pissed if their wife wouldn't take their name? Seriously? Is my man-brain not thinking straight, because I just can't fathom why its that important to them. If you love someone enough to marry them, you should damn well respect them enough to be supportive of their…

As was stated elsewhere in this thread, only the audience knows how poor some of Andrea's choices were. They honestly aren't as bad from her first-person perspective. I really don't think she's any less of awel-drawn character than Rick, who is supposedly the hero.

I've defended Andrea before in these arguments, and I think most people really were fans of Carol's character arc over the last season and a half, but I have no problems with the majority of the vitriol leveled at Lori's character (well not rapey fantasies, that's beyond fucked up, but I too actively wanted her killed…

I think Kenan is hilarious, but they should keep him far far away from impressions. His comedic timing is brilliant, at his delivery is awesome, but all of his impressions come off sounding the exact same.

The idea that domestic violence increases on Super Bowl Sunday (or on days in general when a home football team loses) is a myth. That's not to take away from your point about social power structures enabling abuse and discrimination, but to somehow single out "football" or "sports" for it is wrong.

If it wasn't football it would be hockey, or basketball, or lacrosse, or jai alai. The problem isn't in sports, its in the social structures we build around them (the veneration of of high school football stars, the money that's involved even at the high school level) and that exist regardless of them (rape culture,…

Indeed. The main reason that Dads hasn't been cancelled yet isn't nepotism or Neilsen ratings or the "power of the white male", it's just inertia. It takes time for the networks to make the decision to pull the plug on a heavily marketed show that is doing poorly (although not absolutely disastrously) in the ratings.

I think you might be right when talking specifically about naked selfies, but if you expand it more broadly to "embarrassing pictures" then I'd say at some point almost everyone will have those online. I mean, almost anyone who's gone to college in the last 5 (or 10 even?) years probably has pictures on facebook that…

I think the point isn't that it's thin/attractive people endorsing junk food, it's that it's athletes, people that are undeniably healthy, that are doing it. "Thin" is not synonymous with healthy, but "playing in the NBA" sure is. You could see how a kid could have a hard time reconciling the message that sugary…

While I wholeheartedly agree with the general sentiment of this article, I did a bit of a doubletake on the "the law says it's rape. The end." phrase. I mean sure, in this case that's right, but the law is not always right. It's not right in many countries around the world which restrict human rights, and it's not…

I'll just leave this here, since he does a better job defending the movie (or at least the intentions if not the result) than I ever could, but long story short: satire does not equal endorsement, and failing to get a point across does not mean that the point was invalid.

Sol every time. That stuff goes down like water, but without the wretched aftertaste you'd usually associate with that phrase. Don't mind Dos Equis or Modelo, but can't stand Corona. Tecate just tastes cheap.

Mill Street's best beer (in my mind) is the Doppel Pils. I'm not the biggest fan of Pilseners, but this one is really a standout. Honestly you can't go wrong with most of their brews, unless like me you have a strong aversion to most wheat beers.