It’s not even teachers accidentally killing students that worries me. I taught 7th grade for a while. I am also fairly comfortable around guns (grew up in the sticks where guns were ubiquitous and shooting stuff for food or fun was normal and part of my childhood). No way in hell would I want a gun in a classroom. I…

The child is less likely to shit their pants.

“Trust me, nothing good will come from meeting local kids.” - Marco Rubio

Harry Neale was a treasure on Hockey Night in Canada, as witty as they come.

You say that, but there’s at least a 15% chance you’ll turn on the TV in three years and see him getting minutes in a Sabres/Blues game.

Huge pet peeve of mine with sixties movies. It literally is the same five or ten songs isn’t it. No Ballad of the Green Beret or Sugar Sugar which certainly both out charted anything by Hendrix or Creedance.

On the pile of “leave outs” all the 80's carry over stuff. November Rain, Cherry Pie, Thunderstruck, etc., etc. There was still a lot of (hugely successful) “eighties music” coming out in the early nineties.

I’m willing to bet everything you mentioned would be gone. In the same way that ‘60s movies are generally about the last 4 years of the decade, ‘90s movies will probably be about the first 4.  I think the earliest swing revival tracks didn’t hit until 1995, and nu-metal didn’t get going until almost 2000.

songs were fucking everywhere but won’t be used because they don’t match the grunge narrative.

And yet Love Fool abounds.

When do we get this level of analysis for TMBG’s “Flood,” which was the most impactful album of my youth and therefore should be of interest to everyone?

Of course scandals like this are nothing new in curling. Last year at the Tournament of Hearts the Skip of the Manitoba team was busted for having a blood-alcohol level under .12. The sport still hasn’t recovered.

Kinda makes you wonder why Johnny Manziel hasn’t tried out for the Mets yet.

This is not a watershed moment. The nation didn’t care when the victims were elementary school kids, so the nation definitely won’t care about teenagers.

Either ESPN is a news-gathering operation or not. If ESPN bills themselves as a news organization - which, for the record, they do - then advertising concerns dictating editorial content is a fundamental breach of the ethics of professional journalism. A newsroom is not “any other business.”

Beyond all that (which I think is an extremely valid analysis of celebrity culture), let’s look at J-Law’s post-Hunger Games choices:

The “bad thing” is the journalism branch of a company, and the advertising branch, are supposed to operate independently of each other

E-fucking-xactly.

Seeing Rawls in the gay bar during Season 3 came as a surprise, but it actually made a lot of sense when you look back at his courtship of McNulty.

Yeah, athletic women in skin-tight costumes.