I agree with most of this. Disney puts the “price” in “priceless memories,” but the takeaway here should be that you have a lot of control (not total, but a lot) over how the shit goes down when you make a pilgrimage to see the rat. It can be a lot of fun, and any parent who says they don’t melt at the site of their…

Harden at a strip club? So do I.

Impressive. Eli Manning’s kid just takes pictures of stuff.

This nonsense aside, the ballpark itself is a real gem. Great place to watch decent baseball (probably a shade under A-ball) in a very pretty setting (you can see the mountains - such as they are in this part of the world anyway - from most of the seats). They do a decent summer concert series, too. Gotta improve the…

LOL. My dad drank Stroh’s. That was some gnarly shit.

Adults who didn’t binge drink never understood the point.

I don’t think most people like the taste of beer or wine or liquor when they first try it, so it says something about peer pressure that millions of people happily ignore their first instincts and KEEP drinking that shit until they’ve conditioned themselves to like it.

I feel bad; the whole thing must really stink for him.

this is fucking hysterical.

Brusk with Death

No more hacks in the NBA? I love it! Stephen A. Smith has hung on for far too long.

Jesus, dude. Relax. I went back and read everything I wrote this morning and not one iota of it is rude or disrespectful to anyone. Not to say that I haven’t fallen into that trap before, but I didn’t today. And, when I realized I made a mistake on the hearsay point (which I did define correctly, btw) I admitted it.…

I am coming around to that view myself.

Oh crap. I hate admitting to people who are being dicks that they are right, but you are right about this. I though the expert had interviewed this person; but it was testimony in court. I read it too quickly. You win this round, The Arrogant Bastard.

Totally fair point. Chances are he is gonna be vindicated and the insurance company wins the case (which, good, cuz fuck Penn State). But if you sit through enough expert depositions, you can’t help but develop a healthy amount of skepticism for expert reports, even the components of the report that are presented as…

I tried but my phone auto-corrected it to “circumcision” and then I couldn’t stop giggling because I am 12.

Well that’s not very nice. Hearsay is an out of court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted. So, if the statement had been offered as evidence of the truth of the allegations (which is precisely what I said), I think it would have been hearsay. How am I wrong about that?

Nah; take a look at my response to the other comment in this same vain. I think Paterno is a monster and I thought so before this; I’ve just seen enough so-called expert witnesses who will say pretty much anything that their client wants / needs them to say. If I were a JoePa supporter who wanted to remain in denial,…

Not to be pedantic, but what I wrote was that there was “already more than enough circumstantial evidence to convict” (i.e., before this report came out). I understand that this evidence is not circumstantial (it would be hearsay if offered as evidence on its own, but that’s beside the point), nor do I have any reason…

Yes. This.