It's classic Doug stuff: lots of shrill yapping but no structure, organization or considered thought.

A story that everyone should read — even people who want to see Zimmerman fry should be rightly appalled by the antics of the State Attorney's office.

There are site(s) where commentators routinely call Zimmerman a "policeman"?

Definitely take your time making up your mind. Don't jump to any conclusions.

It tends to be used most specifically in the context of girls/women who pursue (correction: "are perceived as pursuing...") guys who are otherwise involved, no? ("Stay away from so-and-so's boyfriend, you slut!" etc etc)

I think most would agree the NFL data is interesting in part because it enables one to ask, "What happens to young, heavily at-risk black men when their incomes skyrocket?"

The phrase "... who grew up in wealth in Colombia" is kinda telling.

Funny because a decent chunk of the Monaco audience is probably worth as much as Rihanna.

"Critical variable" in terms of cleaning up a bunch of unnecessary noise — not sheer overall influence.

Don't disagree, though it's obviously a canard to consider all NFL players as poor/underclass.

I agree w/that, actually - though I would guess the norming co-efficients aren't nearly as large as the baseline racial co-efficients, particularly for assault and other violent-crime categories.

You're kinda missing the critical variable entirely: income.

So have Deadspin and Jezebel formally merged offices, or is this just an ongoing prank?

... and ultimately, Yeager was probably too damned cool to be an astronaut or play along w/NASA anyway.

John Glenn (Mercury program; first US guy in space) didn't actually have a degree. He did, however, have five Distinguished Flying Crosses from service in WWII, Korea and the test-pilot program - arguably a more useful set of credentials.

There were no non-military US astronauts for another few years, when Armstrong got fast-tracked — in part because of geopolitical/PR concerns about the implications of taking an all-military team to the moon.

Your first summary sentence actually captures the NASA letter, both in content and tone, pretty accurately.

Newsrooms continue to shrink rapidly, so yes: this trade-off would be unavoidable, by definition. It's not even a zero-sum game, but something more severe still.

"Unequal views"? I'm not sure I follow the analogy... are you suggesting that any political outlook that might lead to a vote for a Republican, is kinda similar to creationism?

The standard original source is by two profs, Lichter and Rothman, who turned their original journal article into a book ("The Media Elite", '86). There've been a number of more recent extensions of the work. As Howard Kurtz (WaPo) said in '96: “Clearly anybody looking at those numbers [a poll showing Clinton winning…