As Jay Gould (may have) said: “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”

Oh the other hand, those protests were planned out in advance, and well-organized, and aimed at a specific, tangible goal. Rosa Parks, and the larger organization she was working with, weren’t protesting just for some ineffable sense of fairness; they wanted to end segregation on the buses.

+1, but you missed a potentially excellent Ft. Washington reference.

So....Betteridge’s Law remains intact?

So this is 1,800 words on the way to...where exactly?

Graham Parker taught me to love soccer in a whole new way, and it was nice to have a place where Charles Pierce could write sports again.

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It also employs former Dan Snyder Boot Licker and Hollywood Star Vinny Cerratto.

Where do you live? Surely we could crowd-source an approriate comparison. To me, it’s Staten Island transported to Baltimore.

I would like to remember Byron Leftwich.

I don’t think that playing against scrubs/”not goon enoughs” in a minor league system would help players develop well enough to then make the leap to pro football.

Never fear, you can just remember that one time Greggg Easterbrook blaimed violent movies on Jews.

Yeah. Apparently I managed to turn of spell check in my browser. God only knows what else I’ve misspeled today.

I read that the other way—a subtle way of casting aspersion on Gatlin, just like this line “Gatlin is getting faster and faster in an event that is literally no country for old men.”

Kipchirchir is from Kenya, where he doesn’t have a rediculous, or even remarkable, name.

You see, there ARE jobs for history majors.

This English major laughed.

Watching this gave me a new understanding of EB White’s obituary for the Model T in 1936:

Counterpoint:

Any mention of Heather Kampf should be accompanied with this video, from her college days: