You know why this antitrust trial is really taking place? Because the parties that really should have lost their antitrust trials long ago (i.e., the NFL, NBA and, save their legislative exemption, MLB) didn't. Pro sports leagues as presently constituted in this country, and to a large degree their now mostly…

Not confused at all. Just asking questions. Your answer to the question "What is porn and what isn't?" is "Porn is porn". Okay.

I didn't see any vulva because I didn't go looking for it in an unedited image. So is it the vulva that makes it porn? Or the pay? Is it not porn if a picture on the internet depicts sex whose participants are not paid? Would it be porn if actual bridesmaids showed more than just panties? How much more?

So is it porn if it's staged for commercial purposes but functionally different if it 's staged at a wedding and nobody gets paid? Because if you just look at the pictures what's the difference?

I once heard the term "Swiss freak" used to describe an au pair during a divorce deposition.

The piece here at Jez doesn't make this explicit, but the HS frosh/HS senior thing is basically what this is, just a year removed. The sexual partners both knew each other from school in Moorhead. It wasn't like the stereotypical situation of somebody in a transient occupation coming through town preying on local…

Have to wonder if the outrage would be as great if it was a couple of AV club geeks who did the same thing with a willing sexual partner. Fucking jocks, right? Not excusing the behavior, but there does seem to be an agenda when people who also happen to play sports are involved.

I have a feeling the US will play pretty well, lose 2-1 and be out when weak-minded Portugal gets beat 3-0 by a very-motivated Ghana. Then the huge percentage of casual-fan America will lose its shit on the internet because the US lose a tiebreaker to a team they beat on the field.

NFL WRs have had diving and crying down to an art form for a long time as well. Nothing like drawing that PI call.

Slow-motion does more harm than good in many cases when reviewing a play. Not only are the umps having their shoulders looked over, they are having it looked over from angles and at frame rates that no human can achieve.

But ther are using non-MLB ready pitchers at this point.

If you're expecting perfection, I don't know what to tell you. We've never achieved it in any system involving human beings.

Statistically speaking, what is a "remarkable number"? We know misses are going to happen, but we don't really have a baseline idea of what to expect.

Fun fact: No matter what you do, you'll never construct a system that gets it right every time.

Trigger warning? I once tried to feed an apple to a horse . . .

On the other hand, Suh didn't subsequently fall down and pretend that Dietrich-Smith was trying to break his foot.

Seriously, fuck 'em both.

Say what you will about diving and such in the run of play, but this sort of intensely negative match bothers me at least as much and probably more. There is no run of play here, and the fact that one team actually finally scored will only make this worse through the end of the match.

Me too, except now Croatia is folding like a cheap tent. I really fear/expect that Portugal will go down the same way if Ghana score first in that game on Thursday.

Dear God do I dislike Mexico. They seem to combine all the worst qualities of European gamesmanship with the unrepentant thuggishness of many of the Central American sides. And the fans can shove their 'puto' chant, too. I've cursed Graham Zusi's name every time they've played. The real tragedy, or the real justice,…