Is he thinking of the Emmys? Where L.G. was specially nominated but ineligible to win? I’m not sure that’s the kind of progress we want to see here.

What’s happened that kickers have suddenly started sucking this year? Is it really just the extra 10 yards away for points after touchdown? Are kickers universally trying from longer distances now than they have in the past? Or is there a deeper reason? Every aspect of the game has been sucking a lot more this year,…

151 years ago, the city didn’t exist, either.

In the short term: pass it off to technocrats that create administrative regulations along the lines of what the FDA, FCC, SEC, etc do.

Easy solution: if your computer is involved in a DDOS like this, or another attack, you get fined. No excuses: you own it, you’re responsible for it. The legal framework of “attractive nuisance” already exists, and that’s an unsecured computer is, so you might not even need legislation.

You know what makes me sad? In some parallel universe, this is actually the beginning of one of the best rivalry trophies in college football. “Civil ConFLiCT: the rivalry no one cares about, the trophy no one wants.” Each year the trophy is handed to the winning team, who doesn’t want to be stuck with it so they hide…