From reading the article it seems like it’s a result of the prosecutor not believing they could get jail time due to the age of consent and alleged “gray area” around the rape charge (I say alleged because it sure as fuck doesn’t sound gray to me, but we’re talking about what a lawyer believes will hold up in court).

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.

Can anybody prove it *wasn’t* Nick Cage?

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.... 

“I need to do this”

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.

Hah. I think I caught some of Sgt. Peppers on TV when I was a kid (guessing around 8 years old) and I thought it was *amazing*. I wasn’t able to rent and see it in full until late in high school (by which point, among other things, I was at least decently familiar with the Beatles), and I was...agog at how terrible it…

That’s pretty much me (born in 1973, but same basic gist of having been to old to really ‘get’ the Pokemon craze, but knowing that if I’d been born 15 years later it would totally have been 12-14 year-old me’s jam). But yeah, this movie looks surprisingly great (and my 6 year old, who is at least somewhat into…

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

MY EYES ARE (very slightly) UP HERE

Well that was just delightful.

And her emails.