There was a callow youth last night who upbraided a writer for using the word ‘musher’ in a piece on the Itidarod, and who was driven to Google the term. He said he subsequently “figured it out”, which was an odd turn of phrase, since he could have figured it out from context what a musher is, but he didn’t really, he…

I have no idea what is happening here.

I.... I don’t get it? Man I’m getting old.

You know, as someone who hated the Lakers for years pretty much just because of Kobe, I was a bit sad when the Mamba retired, because...who was left to hate? Just a bunch of kids breaking into the league. Sure, D’Angelo Russell had the thing with the video, but hate-worthy? Nah. But now, with Lonzo & Lavar in town, I…

The answer to your question is Title IX. The school had a duty to provide her assistance and investigate her claims. It failed.

Even if a survivor chooses to speak or take other actions to support their healing, we must not publicly comment in a way that could compromise student confidentiality or inadvertently discourage future students from coming forward.

Burn it to the ground. It’s surprising enough she got a conviction out of a football player in Texas. Hopefully she gets fuck-you rich off of this and these football factories masquerading as places of learning might think twice before minimizing a victim of the environment they created.