Oof, my bad. I was raised by parents who were both English majors. The highfalutin vocabulary is an unfortunate byproduct of that. If I ever drop my educational or professional credentials in an argument on the internet to prove intellectual superiority though, I'll do society a favor and punch myself in the nuts.

The second half of the third sentence you wrote contains something she didn't have in an entire blog post. I didn't say you can't complain - you are paying off almost the equivalent of a mortgage - I just prefer when people have perspective. Maybe that whole piece was just so whiny it sent me over.

Anyone who gets their economics news solely from Gawker probably failed economics in college. You're right, their conclusions aren't always wrong, but they blithely ignore a lot of market principles. Just read the Economist or the Financial Times or IBD for fuck's sake. You won't always agree with their positions, but…

Look, I'm currently a grad student at Bama, but as someone raised in a B1G family I don't see anything the SEC does that other schools in other conferences don't do. It is super-competitive down here which is why the conference has had a lot of success. The B1G point was really about how they tried to get Texas -…

Um, okay. That has nothing to do with my original point, but thanks for missing the forest for the trees!

I jumped in too. I can't take below the belt hits like that on Phin. Only we are allowed to bust his balls!

Here's what I don't get: if a dude writes about a strictly female topic, there's backlash (and, in my opinion, rightfully so) yet they don't apply that same thought process to race? You can talk about race as a white person, but don't be claiming that it's anything more than that.

That really ticked me off. That needs the hashtag #privilegedpeopleproblems. To complain about how hard you have it because you have law school loans without recognizing how fortunate of a position you are in to have gone to college, much less earn an advanced degree, even in a society as abundant as ours is…

It's incredible to see the amount of pseudointellectualism bandied about on that site. I think what really gets me is some of their commenters' total lack of self-awareness. The shit some of them say oozes with straight white privilege - such as being sympathetic to a writer who whines about having $140k in law school…

Late to this, but Gawker has turned into a Yahoo! news comment sections except a) more liberal b) more self-righteous and c) people constantly patting themselves on the back for how well-educated/progressive/"enlightened" they all are. I think what brought it to shit was the cross-pollination with Talking Points Memo.…

Love how the SEC is called the "naked capitalist" conference when the ACC has been the main reason for the Big East's demise by taking their schools like a klepto, the PAC-12 tried to kill the Big 12 last year, the Big East reached all the way out to Idaho and California solely to keep their AQ status, and B1G lured…

It's been wild. I can't believe that almost 4 months ago to the day I had just moved in to an empty apartment with practically nothing. Time has fucking flown by.

Awesome to hear. Glad it's been relatively good news since you find out about the cancer. My last hope for you now is that you become a superhero with the radiation. Maybe the power to turn photoshop memes into reality.

At the moment, in a hole writing papers until the semester ends. I went back to school and am wrapping up my first semester teaching and taking classes at Alabama. Unfortunately, it means less free time on the interwebz during the day.

Glad to see him win it too. Validates all of us who made the career choice to get a Master's in Communication.

Look at all those words you just used.

You know, you're right. Eastern faiths totally have a huge impact on western culture, particularly in the United States. And "Pagan" totally isn't short for "Paganism," which refers to the classical Greco-Roman and celtic traditions before the onset of Christianity that, yes, placed a high value on virginity and…

Thanks Christianity. If not for you, weird Pagan beliefs and traditions like the obsession with female virginity would have hit the dustbin of history centuries ago. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go set up a Babylonian symbol of fertility in my living room and put a star on the top of it in the name of a…

We've got a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as part of the commentariat, but that's a good one nonetheless. Favre in the Hole is both deliciously dirty yet totally accurate.

Again, it's male insecurity. "I'm not a fag! I must drink 1800 then!" Where the fuck are these insecure straight boys so I can point and laugh at them?