In case you had any doubt, please listen to this piece from last week’s This American Life. It is literally proof of that assertion.

Interesting. If the ping gets delayed by even a half a minute, that might have an impact on runners.

Ironically, that’s what many of the anti-football groups fail to realize. The deleterious orthopedic effects of football are entirely well-studied and well-documented. The incidence of quality of life-changing orthopedic damage among men who have played a substantial number of years in the NFL is virtually 100%. In…

From what I understand the big hit concussions aren’t even the big problem. The constant smaller hits that give the brain a good shake but aren’t enough to knock you out are the real problem*

I passed 34 a number of years ago, but I can still stand SVP and 30 for 30. There is almost nothing worse than ESPN’s coverage of the NFL, and I would rather watch Fox News than the “Facts vs. Volume” programming block each afternoon.

What is this article? They laid of 1.5% of their employees; how is this a story? That number is meaningfully lower than the number of people who voluntarily quit each year. Who cares if they paid Kim Kardashian? It’s their money, and their brand is “attention whoring.”

would you higher someone that dumb for your organization?

Tycho Celchu was a troll? I thought he was a Star Wars guy. I’m confused.

Just like it is unlike the Clintons to take any opportunity to promote their peddling of influence and make a bit of extra money. That almost never happens.

Don’t kid yourself. Chelsea Clinton has ridden the coat tales of the plutocracy just as much as Ivanka Trump. If she wanted a fashion line sewn by slave labor, it would be handed to her on a silver platter. The whole thing is stupid, but let’s not pretend that the Clintons, who have amassed a net worth of $200 million…

Mikulski was the first woman elected to the Senate in her own right (meaning that she didn’t follow a husband or father)

Because our first great mass shooting is just as much a part of America as George Washington.

Launch all jellyfish into the sun, I say.

You selectively edited the part of my comment where I addressed your issue. Music at the convention or campaign stops has never ever been found to comprise false endorsement. It’s only if they use the music in an ad that they can (and have) gone after politicians for Lanham Act claims.

Generally they can not sue for uses like at the convention or campaign stops. Assuming that Trump’s campaign has paid ASCAP, BMI or one of the other licensing companies who represents the music that he’s using, he’s basically free to use it at any campaign stop. He is not free to use it in a campaign commercial,…

I’m sure the people in Peoria said “with kindness: good riddance” when she left there for New York.

That’s also every fourth person in Denver these days—desperately telling you how they moved here from New York and how it was so much better. Also desperate to tell you how they worked on “Wall Street” when, in fact, they were providing phone support out of a Newark call center for online mutual fund sales.

There is a big distinction between playing the music at the convention (Trump’s “walkup” music) and using it in a campaign commercial. The former is almost always allowable; the latter is almost always not. Here’s a lengthy article from the American Bar Association about political campaigns and music lawsuits (It’s…

This is fantastic.

You are probably right, but the larger point is that, assuming that the RNC or the entity responsible for the convention, paid the fees to ASCAP, BMI etc., the campaigns have an near-unlimited right to play the music in their catalog. All of the expressions of disapproval and threatening of lawsuits are just noise and…