Weren’t casts made of plaster at least until very recently?

I mean, I think the net effect of that is that really good players who are worth the extra money and hassle will be employed, while the more replaceable/fungible ones who aren’t worth the trouble won’t be, which is, more or less, the status quo. Having the NFL support anti-violence programs and require anger…

Yeah, I’m not saying the answer is easy, but if we can disparage potential solutions as either craven or poorly thought out, we should at least have some alternative in mind. I’m still of the opinion that doing *something* to send a message about domestic abuse not being acceptable or tolerated is better than doing…

You win the pool to manage to include the word “floamy” in an article.

The “That’s important...very important...(long pause)...to be tasteful” gets me every damn time.

Came here to post and/or see this.

I’m sorry, did you just manage to use carbon cap-and-trade as a (I’m assuming tongue-in-cheek) solution? If so: kudos.

So I agree that the “solutions” above all have pretty serious problems as you demonstrated, some of them stemming from the goal being “protect the NFL brand”, but also some of them probably coming from a well-meaning place, but not being well thought out.

I don’t think anyone is saying that the pick is racist in and of itself. The justifications do sound pretty dogwhistley though.

And maybe you would have that much if you stopped showing coworkers your ass.... 

Calling the decision by a movie studio to not release a movie they produced and own because they are embarrassed by it “censorship” is silly. They aren’t trying to round up all available copies and burn them. They aren’t suing wikipedia to remove all mention of the movie from existence.

Feels like you missed an opportunity to say “Basic Witches” here...

MY EYES ARE (very slightly) UP HERE

And her emails.

Sorry, can’t use “upon reflection” in this joke. Try again.

You misspelled “comment”

Fair point. Still though, unless this guy is publicly espousing fascist points of view (and if he is that’s a far bigger deal than whether or not he made this gesture), the worst case scenario is that he did something in very poor taste. Not great, but at this point I think the amount of public ridicule he’s gotten…

I mean, most “professional gamblers” are usually broke. Maybe not him, I dunno, but the people who get rich in vegas are, by and large, not the gamblers...

It’s possible he’s doing the “mimicking a Hitler mustache” thing, but it’s also entirely plausible he’s just kind of in mid wave and shout just like he said. I’m going to err on the side of not assuming he’s making a Nazi gesture.