Curt Schilling has plenty of reasons to lie: he's a fame whore and since he's bankrupted his video game business, he has to make sure ESPN keeps him on contract so he can earn some cash.

I don't get the hub bub. She didn't name anyone, and her patient is an inconsiderate asshole.

See that's nonsense though. Untold numbers of scientific breakthroughs were accomplished by people of faith. The reason is kinda simple: people conform their religious beliefs to their other beliefs about the world. The problem isn't that religion is turning people against science, it's that A SHIT TON OF people in…

1. I didn't say all atheists. But there is a DEFINITE strand of atheists who find themselves some particular atheist hero (Hitchens, Dawkins, James Randi, Penn Jillette the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair if you're old enough to remember her) and act just as religiously reverential to them as the religious folks do to…

Everything about the way sports is produced on TV is geared towards chasing a mythical casual sports fan who doesn't exist. That's why they fill the studio with aggressively dumbed down talk from former athletes who were once STARS. They don't think their audience is very intelligent and thinks they'll only respond to…

I'm pretty proud of that, to be frank.

If you got rid of every church on God's grey Earth, people would still find some reason to exclude people they see as The Other. It's actually one of the better arguments against the existence of God: churches tend to look like their community, not the other way around. Doesn't say much for the unifying spirit of the…

The majority of Americans don't really believe any of this, or only believe bits of it (the nice bits that correspond with nice messages like, love your neighbor or that sorta thing.) Find me a large group of Americans who actually believe that you are unclean in the eyes of the LORD during your period, or that…

I mean, at the end of the day, what you think or don't think about the universe is pretty much the most private thing in the world. It has nothing to do with anything else you'll ever do. I will never understand (I mean, I do. They've just replaced Jesus with Christopher Hitchens or some other atheist hero and are…

Seriously? The most hated group in the country? Jesus. Let me know when you shot at by cops for being atheist. Somewhere around 1/4 to 1/3 of all Americans don't go to any kind of church of any kind and barely care.

Man, I hope some other city doesn't offer the Rams some cockamamie contract guaranteeing a top tier stadium to entice them to move. That would be unprecedented and terrible!

It is truly amazing how many people do not know the difference between a columnist and a reporter.

If they don't do something (ie, replace all team doctors with independent doctors who have no reason to diagnose anything favorably for the teams) soon, they're going to end up having to bend over and do something way more drastic in the future as a lawsuit settlement.

Maybe Ronnaiah has a really convincing girl-on-phone voice. Surrrrre, that's it.

I have a super hard time believing that Ronnaiah could find some random female with no real ties to any of this to do all the grunt work of sitting on a phone for hours.

Yes. There has been no story anywhere that has linked a female to the hoax, yet we know Te'o spent hours on the phone and didn't know he was talking to a fella?

Yep. Publishing comedy pieces totally disqualifies you from doing journalism. Much better to just be a corporate shill for the people you ostensibly cover.

The other thing from the article that you learn is that according to Craggs, ESPN hadn't contacted any of the sources Deadspin had used close to Tuiasosopo. Which means what? ESPN had only talked to Te'o's representation and Notre Dame. Considering Te'o is still spinning a bunch of bullshit and Notre Dame barely knew…

Basically, ESPN wanted to be an organ for him and this guy and his people were too stupid to realize they needed to get their version out before someone with no desire to slant things toward Te'o got the story first.

Go into any alt. comedy room, the supposed hippest places to see live comedy you can find, and you'll be AWASH in baby rape jokes. And every one of the guys doing those jokes will sit around making fun of the dudes from the 80's with their Airplane jokes as if they aren't just as shitty and hacky.