Agreed. If a free T-shirt shows up at a net cost less than the island tailor can produce one like it, then the island tailor is performing unnecessary labor, and his time could be better spent on some other task that can't be supplanted by a container full of practically free shirts.

Instead of putting your chargers on the floor where you'll step on them, just put your car keys on top of the charger, or put the cord through your key ring. No way to leave without noticing the charger.

The +3-8 rule is a different way of saying that most crashes happen during or near takeoff and landing. No big secret, there; adding a lot of energy to a stationary object to make it fly and removing energy from it to make it stationary again are both the most difficult tasks in aviation.

I thought I had selected the right TV, on paper, until I discovered it was sold locally at a big box store and went to see it, in person. The picture was fine, but its ability to handle motion (big, fast moving football players pixelated and golf balls blurred, badly). Only by seeing it side-by-side with other TVs…

Don't forget the venerable Opti-Grab.

I also blame the continuous nature of the game. 90 minutes with one break is very different than the stop and go nature of football and baseball. Basketball has lots of time outs and clock stoppages, and, even if you miss a couple of baskets, chances are they are not game-deciding.

You're right about the parity. Golf: women and men, especially playing from different tee boxes, look a lot alike to the average spectator. Same with tennis, and same, to a degree, with soccer, although as one pretty familiar with that sport, the women's games lack the occasional 1/3rd-field, on-a-rope shots on goal…

You seem awfully certain that a) he was OK with the kiss, and b) that she was NOT OK with the ass grab. That's all, folks.

My point is, everyone seems to assume that he, by virtue of winning a race and/or stepping onto a podium, has given his permission to be shown sexual attention. Maybe he's married. Maybe he's uncomfortable. He certainly looks ambivalent in the picture, standing stiffly at attention. Yet, those same people assume…

Oh, yeah? Well, you're about 1/10,000th as smart as you think you are. So, there; you can't argue with that kind of math.

The irony of you, a vulgarian, ad hominem attacker, suggesting I grow up is palpable.

How is it "clear" she has his permission?

I, too, am mortified by the unwanted sexual contact displayed in the photo. Just look at that, poor, scantily clad person receiving evidently undesired sexual contact. After all, just because it is someone's job to be on the podium after a race, wearing tight clothing, does not mean that one wants to be treated like…

Fill the room with beach balls. The displacement is B.

Concur. It's as if the people here cannot fathom (or, more likely, admit) that an armed potential victim could ever defend herself with a gun, or that having the legal potential to own and carry one might be, in itself, a deterrent. In the cases where a gun isn't helpful for whatever reason (no time to deploy,…

What if I find @Umbrellahead, and her child-like "logic" adorable, like a little, baby lamb? Squee!

Squee! It's so cute to imply you're a big soccer fan and admire that photo of all that athletic soccer action, but that men looking at women in swimsuits is objectification. Squee! Your point is not both hypocritical and contradictory, because you say that objectification for "hundreds of years" is wrong, but…

Your daughter would only have a problem getting her can kicked by an Olympian if she had a lifetime of being conditioned to the premise that winning equals worthiness. If you have taught her that losing equals being a loser, she will, no doubt be very upset when she loses, much as you obviously are.

I agree on the rarity. Campuses, and especially ones for little kids, are both safe and unsafe because they are a closed environment full of (mostly) women and children, two demographics that don't, statistically, generate a lot of violence. This makes them, most of the time, happy places with few worries of…

Well, if the teacher is prone to terrified panic and is incapable of not shooting bystanders, then he/she probably won't be one of the ones who volunteers to CCW.