Exactly. There are times when a teammate or a coach needs to call a guy out in the locker room and having his kid sitting there makes that awkward at best.

As I said yesterday, it’s hard to make Kenny Williams a sympathetic figure but I’m totally on his side here.

You really have to be an asshat to make Kenny Williams seem like the intelligent, reasonable one in the argument.

Yes, it is very different from an office environment, in some ways that make a kid’s presence even more distracting. A clubhouse is going to have a bunch of guys who want to bond and be able to let their guard down...it’s not hard to imagine topics of conversation that would be uncomfortable with a kid around.

I don’t know what the Bears are thinking. Pace seems to think that late round draft picks are the holy grail but even the best GMs don’t hit on many of them. He’s now traded away two very talented players with some good years left for a net gain of four rounds of draft position, not even an extra pick. I favored the…

I’ve never heard of SantaCon so I don’t know if it’s worse, but here are my feelings on St. Patrick’s Day: my wife and I just returned from Vegas last night, and we intentionally planned the timing of our trip to be sure that we wouldn’t be there on St. Patrick’s Day. And Vegas is where my tolerance for obnoxious…

Yup, saying “Really?” in response to someone taking the elevator one floor definitely deserves losing one’s livelihood. That’s not an extreme response at all.

Who says the executive was identifiable as such? At my offices there are VPs who are unintelligible from employees by appearance. You can argue that an abundance of caution regarding snarky comments to people you don’t know is wise, but I doubt if the guy knew he was speaking to an exec.

I will even relent and say that it’s fine to take the elevator going up one flight. But unless you are disabled, never take the elevator down one flight.

Seems like the guy should’ve taken off running and gambled that the exec wouldn’t be able to identify him later. You’re about to be fired, what’s the worst that could happen?

Not only that, but not all homes appreciate even outside of bubbles. My in-laws bought a modest home in a working-class suburb over 30 years ago. Now they own a paid-off home in the ghetto that is almost literally worthless. When they move, they’ll have pretty much the same amount of equity as they would had they…

Amen. I used to work with someone who bought a house, complained constantly that he was spending all his free time working on it or the yard, then went “so why don’t you buy a house?” It really is just like parents. With the exception that homeownership is sometimes a good financial idea...

What happened to her was absolutely wrong, the stalker deserves prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, and the hotel deserves punishment for their lax policies that contributed.

As a drinker, I feel the same way. The things I hate to do sober (going to a party or a loud, crowded bar) aren't fun if I drink, they're merely more tolerable. Meanwhile the things I actually enjoy I would still like if I couldn't drink during them. Well, except for wine tastings.

I've been to 24 altogether and have at least 10 of them in my regular rotation.

P.F. Change is way too high because you can buy their frozen meals at the grocery store for like half the price. Since I’m 99% sure that the “cooks” at casual places are just heating up frozen stuff too, why pay a premium for it?

That would be a one word article.

So don’t say, ‘She’s a thief who’s been in jail.’ Say, ‘I think people like this seem like the type of people that are not honest.’”

Exactly. “Sideline Barbie” is a great description. I don't like her because she's bad at being a sideline reporter, and she replaced a much better one in Pam Oliver.

I’m not sure it’s reasonable to draw any conclusions from an average that includes all NFL players. At the very bottom of rosters, there is so much roster churn and guys go from practice squad one week to unemployed the next and then maybe picked up by another team, and on and on. I would argue that they are in fact…