You picked a strange place to stop reading:

Sadly, that’s the American dream. The American reality is more like being shunted into arbitration for 3-5 years and getting offered a voucher toward a new replacement vehicle that doesn’t fail to account for depreciation on your car after it was taken. Probably requiring an NDA too.

That sounds nice and all but a huge percentage of total american wages already goes to structural inefficiencies as makework. What else would you call private health insurance and the office and hospital coders whose sole purpose is to interpret it?

The argument for Kavanaugh’s technical honesty is that Casey v Planned Parenthood matters far more than Roe v Wade in terms of beating back TRAP laws/etc. So he’s standing behind the lesser standard and pretending there’s no difference to give “moderates" cover.

Forget about him? He's poised to be on the supreme court for thirty or more years. Kavanaugh *is* the long game.

No. They were posed questions by a series of different and untrained people with different motives.

The ‘will of the people' included the three fifths compromise which was the basis for electoral vote allocation. Still want to call it a feature?

He won't stop getting game checks, but any incentives or per-game roster bonuses will disappear. This is usually a bigger deal for players with an injury history (Sam Bradford and Richard Sherman being big examples just this year) but overall, a player will nearly always get as much money if they get hurt as if they…

On the one hand: sure. On the other: Better Call Saul. You don’t need a perfect premise to tell a great story.

If it makes you feel better, you can't physically prepare for the hit and also look for the throw. If Cousins tucks the ball and turtles up, Donald's still going to throw him down but it's not going to look nearly as dramatic.

But it’s also the pattern—Kavanaugh exhibits a total refusal reflect on or account for his own conduct or the conduct of anybody who may reflect poorly on him.

Internalized misogyny is a hell of a drug.

This kinda ignores that $5M less per year than Carr gets you Sam Bradford, and $10M less per year gets you Blake Bortles (or Mike Glennon or Nick Foles or or or). Carr was the highest paid player in the league when he was signed, a year later he’s 6th among QBs, and in another year or two he’ll be down around 10th.…

The difference is that Davis would’ve needed $90M (or whatever the true fully guaranteed amount is) to put in escrow now to sign this contract. He doesn’t need the money to pay Gruden any faster than his checks fall due, and the stadium money’s not going into his pocket in a spendable way.

On the other hand, the Raiders absolutely could've played hardball. Mack's only leverage was to not show up and that comes with some pretty significant downsides. Trading him now is the closest thing to a win-win that I can see.

It's possible that he couldn't have. Guaranteed money in player contracts needs to be put in escrow at signing. The same isn't true for coaches. So Gruden will get paid out of revenues for the next whatever years but Davis would've needed to bank much of Mack's contract now.

In this case was Landry supposed to follow that route, making a lighter block?

Is the sneaky part comparing him to Eric Dier, a more defensive midfielder, or Jack Wilshere who finally got healthy enough to be dropped by his boyhood club?

His head doesn’t come up and bringing your arms back to your sides is a natural consequence of landing.

Deliberate is the key word. Do you think it's clear and obvious that Perisic had any idea where the ball was?