Don’t worry. Now that MSU’s aware of this, they’ll form a sub-committee to investigate it, refer their findings to the standing committee, who will then remove any names of friends and family for whom they got cushy jobs, and will then refer it to the office the the President, Lou Anna Simon, who then will refuse to…

I’m pretty sure the judge is only empowered to (figuratively) tear Larry to pieces, but yeah. Hopefully his sentencing will be followed up with huge civil lawsuits -- and criminal charges, where appropriate -- against all of the enablers.

Never underestimate the lengths and depths people will go simply to cover their own ass.

I feel like it’s the latter. It seems like with any kind of concern of this type (see also: Baylor), it’s easier to just (ab)use your power and try to sweep it out of sight than try to take on a possible national shitstorm. It’s hard to get fans buying into the fanciful NBC montages if people knew, and now know, that…

The thing I find so confounding about the complicity of USAG/MSU/USOC is... why? Once the allegations started to surface, why keep him? Did this shitstain appear to offer anything special? Did he seem to possess unique skills above and beyond the average sports medicine practitioner? Or was it really just the purely…

Honest question: what the fuck? I am old and increasingly jaded, but how the hell was this monster allowed to do what he did, and have it covered up for so long? Who with the USOC or USA Gymnastics got this information and made the decision to conceal; decided that Nassar needed protection? Why was he not tossed to…

I just want to thank Deadspin and Jezebel for giving this the frontline attention it needs and deserves. Other outlets are giving it so little attention relative to its importance it is very disheartening.  I listen to the radio in the morning on the way to work and you would have little idea this was happening if…

This is me replying to my own post. I think a better example of what I was saying earlier can be found in the current Jezebel article on Lupita Nyong’o regarding her new book and her adolescent feelings toward her skin tone, “I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy.” That is what I thought this article would…

I think that there is a disconnect between the title of this article and its content. I thought it was going to be about how it can be comforting to feel like a victim because it absolves one from feeling like, “I could have done something differently,” or “my life could be a lot better if I were stronger.” People…

For the love of G-d, SOMEBODY PUT A HAT ON IT AND SEE IF IT COMES TO LIFE!

There’s got to be a cold-air intake joke for this.

“Next, carefully peel away the bodywork...”

Yo dawg, I heard you like to drift so I made a snow drift car out of a snow drift...

I’m assuming it powered by ICE?

headline is wrong... clearly thats a snoyota

This is the basic concept of Skylon and other Single-Stage-to-Orbit concepts. The challenge is that, with current technology, you have to carry at least two propulsion systems — an SR-71-style ramjet for atmospheric propulsion, and a rocket engine for exoatmospheric thrust. In a naive implementation, the dead weight…

Essentially, once you get to about 62 miles up, the air is so thin that your theoretical airplane has to be traveling fast enough just to stay aloft that you would escape the clutches of Earth’s gravity anyway based on speed alone (for those wondering, it’s a little above 17,000 mph, give or take a few thousand here…

That can’t really be what you think? That going to someone’s house after eating isn’t irrevocable consent? That’s wrong, legally, morally, logically wrong. Unquestionably, undeniably wrong.

I’ve appreciate the expended empathy for Harding in light of the movie. Seeing how abuse puts people in untenable situations is really important.

The “potholes appearing in the spring” thing confuses me to a degree. I live in Kansas where we experience insane temperature swings with very cold winters and scorching summers. Two weekends ago it was snowing, last weekend I had the A/C on in my car to keep comfortable. And it’s often wet. Needless to say, it’s…