It was clear that Paterno had all the control at Penn State, but I didn't realize that included the remote control.

By 2003 they had a ton of practice covering up that and more.

Better to go down dignified, with boughten friendship at your side, than none at all.

From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.

I'd adjust your comment to say, don't let adults end up this way. To that end, recognize that children will be this way for a while, and when they're your children, help them through it on the way to being something else, without losing hope or judging them ill for "ending up" that way. I suspect that you're a much…

Welcome to the Unrepresented. There's more of us than most people realize.

This is the first time something labeled "pro tip" included the direction "ask your mom."

+1

Without endorsing the socratic irony, I also found the slaves comment to be in poor taste.

It's taken some work today to find the high-quality commenters who, like at io9, add a lot of value to the site. Hopefully it's a work in progress.

I'm more concerned about it hitting io9, in a way — it's the one place I visit more than deadspin. I'm trying to hope the system fits some of those give-and-take discussions better. We'll see.

As long as you don't tell him you're the comment monster, you get a pass.

Most welcome. I'd love to be able to discuss footie more lucidly with you — I need to get up to speed on the premier league, as my son is becoming a junkie for it and La Liga. I'm taking him to the Tottenham-Liverpool contest in Baltimore next month.

I'll edit this if I come up with something more witty; for now I'm just trying to persuade the algorithm to rank you ahead of discussion of ready-to-heat handmeals.

I'm going to reply as though this is a sincere question; if it's not and I missed some kind of joke, I hope my ignorance is at least mildly amusing.

Totally understandable mistake. The audio is partly drowned out by all the clicking around here.

It's true that he likes his space. He's used to having access to an entire second mile.

It's funny because it's soap.

(it slipped)