Technically, you can also technically meet the definition of assault in Canada merely by using words, with no physical contact, technically, and that’s precisely what my internet lawyer 101 reference is about.

I’ve posted on this before, but how is this necessary? Is there a dearth of blandly handsome and glib white men to host our national reserve of TV tripe shows? Why Billy Bush specifically, when there are hundreds of women and men learning the ropes and polishing their résumés on local TV who are dying for a chance at…

This comment is barely birthed and is already criminally under-starred.

Yeah, it would be quite a convoluted He Said-They Said case, except that it all played out in the media wide open, so it shouldn’t be too hard to tease apart what happened, who breached the contract at what point to what degree.

I’m a slave to CC, any accent at all throws me for a loop, in English or French.  I clung to them to get through “The Wire” and “Game of Thrones”.  Very proper British or neutral American I can deal with, but “Coronation Street” or “The Night Of”, I switch them on routinely.  I’ll sometimes challenge myself to get…

Yeah, I tripped up on that. Did he say “inflating”? “Enhancing”? Maybe “improving”?  I’d like to hear the other side of this story.

This won’t be one of them TV’s where I have to read is it?

Yes. As a puzzled Canadian, when I read up on this scandal as it broke, that seemed to be the consensus, that getting into a USC or Stanford or Harvard is really hard, but once you’re in and paying tuition, it’s pretty hard to flunk out if you show the minimal effort of attending class and writing the essays and…

I think this is a misquoting of what she wrote and doing her explanation an injustice. With the preamble, she wrote:

Your reply does nothing to refute mine, it only re-states your fundamental error.

Yes. If he failed to report to work, if he had physically attacked GM Mike Mayock, if... , then maybe he’d have voided the contract entirely. I disagree(d) that a ‘guarantee’ can be voided by the employer at this stage, with the employer having so much power in the employer-employee relationship in the NFL generally.

Hurray for nuance! Glad we can discuss this sanely.

Again, as I’ve posted elsewhere, shouting matches, people being separated by teammates and coaches, that relatively common in the alpha male highly-competitive and emotional world of the NFL. Players often actually have fistfights.

Again, language is important. Let’s avoid strawmen and try to elucidate some of these issues and events, and find some common ground.

Well yes, and cellphone ‘contracts’ have been a bugaboo of mine for decades now.  But we don’t live under the rule of law, we are creatures to be sucked dry by the plutarchy and sedated by bread and games.

Well yes, and cellphone ‘contracts’ have been a bugaboo of mine for decades now.  But we don’t live under the rule of law, we are creatures to be sucked dry by the plutarchy and sedated by bread and games.

This is internet lawyer 101, in that it is fundamentally wrong.  Most jurisdictions clearly spell out that while assault is generally any unwanted or unconsented-to application of force, it needs to be more than trifling or transitory in nature for there to be any legal consequence.  So your 17-year-old nephew leafing…

It’s the blink of an eye, really, during the reign of error of Dan Snyder.  Still counts.

Right, and we’re getting into an angels on the head of a pin discussion here, what’s a guarantee, really.

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