Wouldn’t “default to truth” also mean believing McQueary, or the various accusers, etc.? I'm not going to read the book but how is this principle supposed to handle conflicting accounts?

I’m not convinced of Ziegler’s ultimate conclusion—that Sandusky is innocent. But I do agree with him that the case is much more ambiguous and unusual than the conventional press accounts suggest.

Didn’t read the article, just wanted to come down here and talk about how awesome the giant back tattoo I got in 2005 is. It’s Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle and Malcolm Gladwell and says “The Three Wisemen” on top, because they’re never wrong about anything.

I loved all the grays last week telling me that actually Paterno did do something by telling Sandusky not to rape kids on campus anymore. These fucking people, man. 

Can I ask a simpler question of Mr. Gladwell, how does something being complicated get you off the hook? You know what is complicated? Nuclear reactors, yet we put people in charge of them and hold them responsible for the results. No more malpractice lawsuit because really heart surgery is complicated. You can’t…

Congrats Bill Simmons, you are no longer the writer I'm most ashamed of enjoying during my younger days. Yeesh what a jackass 

I grew up in State College, I went to school with Sandusky’s kid, the one in prison for soliciting minors. I’ve been in Sandusky’s basement. I play tackle football in Sunset Park near Joepa’s place, pretending to be Shane Conlan or DJ Dozier. I know what that town is like, and how it venerated the football program.

I think you’re almost being too kind to Gladwell here (which is saying something!).

The idea that “Levine’s “Truth-Default Theory” captured Gladwell’s imagination” and that led him to dedicating a significant portion of his book (and his huge platform) to easily-disputable questioning of the Sandusky case is…

On the Simmons podcast Gladwell reminisced about their old email exchanges.

The time to be clear about what one wants/needs in a relationship is early on. There is definitely an element of coercion for people who have been married (or dating exclusively) for some time when one of them decides to say “Hey btw, the whole monogamy thing isn’t really my deal.”

I once heard him described as “the 1% of germs Lysol can’t kill.”

Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx were covered by section 5 of the voting rights act before the Supreme Court threw it out. Disenfranchisment was focused on Puerto Ricans instead of African Americans. There are definitely neighborhoods that went harder for Trump than went for Romney. E.g., all of Staten Island,…

Being a team player, not questioning orders, wage suppression, universal health care...sounds like college sports are clearly just a front to indoctrinate kids into the CPUSA.

Is Nick Saban the most normal coach in college football? Or is he just hiding what we all know is some really weird shit? If it’s not him, I don’t know, Lincoln Riley seems ok, maybe?

Just for fun, someone should tell these 40 something coaches who act like they grew up in the 1950's that being a team player is just a harbinger of becoming a full fledged socialist. It would confuse the shit out of them for a few minutes

The really sad thing is he had that “my email address is hashtag I don’t care” so locked and loaded and ready to that it is clear it was a line he thought about and prepared and was waiting to throw out there, and it is just so so terrible. 

I have had enough money to get the psychological care I needed. It still took a fuckload of excruciating work on my part. Trauma compounds trauma, so a person who, for instance, had a mother routinely overdose in front of her and had to give her CPR as a child, then was raped as an adolescent, and doesn’t get…

Hmmm? I have the same age difference between hubby and me as Demi and Ashton, and no requests for a threesome in our 13 years of marriage. Maybe the problem is Ashton not the age difference.

This is a lot to unpack. Stanley Donen sees Michelle Johnson in a magazine ad and pursues her for the role. They find out she’s underage and instead of just recasting with an actress of legal age, they go to court because dammit he’s found his muse and he’s going to show her breasts no matter what. Found this article…

Isn’t this the same mom who tours around teaching people how to homeschool their children into being geniuses?