No, shank can be used as both a noun and a verb, much like knife and knifed. You get shanked with a shank, but you can also get shanked with a shiv or shived with a shank.

Yep, because it allows Gawker media to feel better about themselves after they publish things like this.

Nah, I don't buy that one either. They'll find someone with very little national name recognition and someone from out of conference. In answer to your last statement, you're dead on. They've got more money than God himself and they've always shown their willingness to spend it to get who they want.

I'm a huge Texas fan, but all the message board fans speculating that Texas is going to get Saban sound like the idiots over in Aggyland who used to speculate that they'd get Jimmy Johnson or Bill Cowher. Saban ain't coming to Texas and Texas isn't going to pursue him in the first place. Texas will go for a younger…

This is true, but you only get money from people once when you vaccinate. It seems a long shot that any discoverer of a vaccine would be working independently and more likely that they'd be working for a pharm company. Anyway, to mass produce a vaccine you're going to have to go through a pharm corp that can handle…

I'm skeptical that they'll ever find a cure for it, either through vaccines or treatment. It's a tired cliche by now, but there's not nearly as money in cures or prevention as there is in maintenance.

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I dunno. Maybe. My experience is that the more controlling the parent, the more resistant to authority the child in a lot of cases.

If she's anything like the preacher's daughters I knew growing up, it's Mrs. Hall that's going to have a rough time during her adolescence.

Yeah, it looks like the purple shirt guy was looking completely the other way when he was hit and the last guy wasn't threatening the puncher at all. Punk move, but how hard must that dude be hitting to knock 3 people down and 2 of them out with one punch each?

It's so long that it stopped growing in a single straight direction.

It hasn't always been that way and it's probably attributable to the way the league has become primarily a passing game as time has progressed. When I was growing up in the late 60's and 70's, you had QB's who were workmen like guys. They've always been the on field leader, but they didn't have to be perfect to be…

If not, they'll surely complain that they're being punished more harshly than anyone else would be because of a UT/ESPN conspiracy and that it should be cut to one quarter instead.

I have a dream that someday little black girls will be allowed throw dishes and tables at each other in Denny's across the country.

This is just one more fear that you will have as a parent. They get a lot more real once the kids go from imaginary to real. There is always something to worry about and something you want to protect them from. The fact of the matter is that you'll never protect them from everything. We get a blank canvas when they…

Are you going to follow this story up with one containing the directions to Pussy Village? Or is it like Springfield on "The Simpsons" and you tease it over and over without ever really telling us?

Good read, but you're wrong about:

It really doesn't matter how many times she's done it and, despite what the post's author implies, recovery doesn't require her to be brutally honest with the general public. It requires her to get honest with herself, with her higher power, and with another human being, primarily during the 5th step, but also in an…

I think the outrage in this article is actually directed at the government official who initially ignored the unnecessary comment. It's up to the people running things to rid the system of those useless comments and to direct the discourse to something substantive.

You bite your tongue. We kill plenty of black people too. Haven't you heard of our love of the death penalty?