Ah, that makes sense.

$5.6 billion for a small city

Fletcher Nix wasn't faster, he just cheated. He told the other person they would both go for the gun, but he would let them get their hand to the gun first, then pin it to the table with the ice pick. Not very sporting.

Justified is a goddamn fantastic show. Anybody who loves Justified should watch Harlan County, USA and be prepared to dick-punch the next person who tells you unions are unnecessary.

He's a viciously reactionary, bipolar coke head who fancies himself a "warrior" because he rides around with real soldiers. The fact that Andrew Breitbart adored him should probably tell you something about both of them.

Oh, Mr. Dollard is a real treat: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu…

It's the nature and strength of your fandom that I'm unclear about.

Then you're missing my point as well.

there are sorts who aren't going to take well to certain kinds of celebration

I believe you've missed the point. Baseball has an abundance of humorless prigs who think that the slightest whiff of exuberance, or, really, anything other than grim workman-like drudgery somehow goes against the "unwritten rules" and demands to be smacked down.

That's right, you weren't saying anything, you were just concerned.

The tude is based on your lack of intellectual honesty. You lack the honesty to just come out and say what you think is being kept from the public, and are only interested in maintaining plausible deniability for what you actually think. It's called "concern trolling," and it is boring.

It is more comforting to believe that the world is capable of being controlled (for ill or good) by a small cadre of dedicated people than to recognize that the world is unpredictable and beyond that kind of control.

Your wall of text and lack of paragraph structure has convinced me.

It would be nice if you had the courage of your convictions and just came out and said what it is you think is being "kept safe."

Because of...profit?

First, the proliferation of cc cameras in this country is a pretty recent thing. 2001 was not the same world as 2014.

To be fair, when someone talks about the kind of JJ practiced by actual fighters now, it is a lot closer to BJJ than the traditional Japanese JJ you're talking about.

You're talking about the difference between keeping something that didn't happen a secret and something that was the most publicized and scrutinized event of the last 50 years.

Of course, the fact that it was infiltrated with Soviet spies probably doesn't help your argument.