It happened often enough that abrasive drunks would refuse to leave our premises when asked and when faced with ejection would claim to be lawyers or law students and that if I touched them I was committing assault, that I had a pat response.

He’d have so, so much more to say if it wasn’t for sinister forces afoot in these politically correct times, eroding his right to free speech.

The Patriots won’t need to trade for Melvin Gordon, the Chargers will fumble him away, when everything hangs in the balance.

I stand by my posts:

I’m glad I didn’t specify what monetary value I thought that prove-it contract might dictate, because I would have been embarrassed a mere couple hours later.

Okay, both of you idiots just cracked me up but good.

And Gronk coming out of retirement now that training camp is over with in three, two, one, ...

My god, this is the story that just keeps on giving.

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.