That is one hell of a straw man. I literally made *none* of those arguments.

I’m not advocating for any other action. If you’re asking me (like my opinion matters), I think the Patriots definitely should have cut Brown and his “I’m the victim because I had a signed contract” thing can go fuck itself.

“I am more and more leaning to letting things play out in civil/criminal court before the teams/league take any action.”

I’m not even talking about Brown. And do the extent that I did I said he was most likely guilty. He’s not entitled to shit. Fuck him. Is that clear enough for you? 

Way to  focus on the figure of speech rather than the actual substance. It’s merely a way of saying “I’m not agreeing, I’m trying to add some nuance.”

Not quite the same, but when i saw Gremlins 2 (with 3 other people in the theatre, exactly 1 of whom wasn’t there with me). The film broke right at the beginning of the movie leading to a 10 minute delay (and free popcorn for all 4 of us!). One could not have asked for a more perfect setup for the “gremlins are in the…

Feels like the title should definitely have a colon...

So if Fleabag episode 1 failed to grab me should I keep going? I just found the characters irritating and unlikable and there was no mystery or anything to draw me in. I often see it compared to Russian Doll, which I loved, but I don’t know if it’s just in the sense of “these are both awesome shows and you should…

Oh man you just had that one locked and loaded didn’t you.

Obviously and of course it is good that victims who have traditionally been ignored are getting more attention now (not to say that particular problem is “fixed”, but it’s certainly more visible, which is great).

Do you think bank robbers are unaware that robbing banks will lead to getting shot and going to jail? Sounds like that’s not too effective either.

I mean, yes? Obviously a person who would do those things needs help? That is not separate from needing consequences.

We hath the meats.

Heavens to Betsy!

To say nothing of Jack Black.

I know this is a sideline to this horrific story, but this was weird:

Ah right, spaced that. That would be a story if Cal hired someone away from LSU :P

Lol snap. I was pretty checked out of cal football by that point, but a bunch of friends were regulars (we were all in the marching band), so I heard at length how eye-rolling the pigskins and pearls thing was but my knowledge of Cal was limited to occasionally catching part of a game at a party and saying “yeah,…

Yeah, that’s kind of what I mean by feeling like he’s a qualified expert in a bunch of shit he knows little or nothing about because he is smart and an expert in another field (linguistics).

The Language Instinct is the only one I read cover to cover. I’m not going to defend everything he’s done by any means, that book had more intellectual rigor and research than anything I’ve seen from Gladwell.