I’m a university administrator. The problem I see is the mushrooming number of deans in any given school within a university. In my own school, which is an allied health sciences school within a major university, we have 20 of the suckers, and an additional 11 department chairs. I guarantee that none of them have a…

I know you are being flip, but isn’t this the only “old European guy” signing this season? Lampard and Gerrard went back home. All the other new expensive Euro guys went to China to play in a league that will have them begging for MLS play in 3 months.

“These people have awful names.”

There is and always will be only one Robin Hood. All others may show themselves out. Kthksbye

My favorite part of the illustration is how peanut butter is fine yet nuts are not and thus they have drawn in freaking peanuts at the bottom... (which aren’t actually nuts but still) prenautbutter good! Implied Peanuts bad! Clearly someones liberal arts degree didn’t really teach them any basic facts.

At some point, you have to [air horn] distractions to [booming PA announcer hype man voice] and [Jock Jams cut] and [instructions to make some noise] kick in the nuts.

Come on, this is too easy, most of them are in this picture:

“...involves physical activity...”

I think that most of what Gibson has said that he’s gotten in trouble for has been while he was drunk. Given that he has apologized, I could forgive him for that. The guy has substance abuse problems and anger issues, and he seems to have gotten help, and that’s enough for me.

Yeah, my heart burns for you guys, too.

“Are you now or have you ever been a believer that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for rapid global warming? Answer the question!”

It’s not shitty to acknowledge something that’s inescapably true. Every artist is a human being, human beings have opinions and perspectives, and those perspectives inevitably seep into their work whether they intend a political message or not.

Art is supposed to be about “all that crap.” If it’s not, then it’s just a bunch of noise, with very little consequence. People like Star Wars not just because of the big lasers, but because it actually says something.

Baseball is the only sport that actually looks like America.

I chose those countries specifically because they were poor shitholes and yet somehow they can still afford to provide healthcare.

Breaking News: China and India both offer free tuition and free healthcare to their 3 BILLION citizens.

I think your numbers are bullshit.

(sigh) Everyone keeps linking to graphs that show penetration at a single point in time, as if that proves anything. The only chart that matters is the one here:

TV is not fundamentally much different than radio. People sit around a box for entertainment turning a knob (and eventually a button) when commercials come on. There is nothing really to understand. It takes 5 minutes to adapt. Instead of staring off into space, you stare at the TV. The refrigerator? Plug it in…

All of the examples in Matt’s write-up, TV, refrigerators, are too old. If you look at smartphones or the internet as a modern comp, they were spread to an even larger # of Americans in a comparable or shorter amount of time. That’s (hopefully) the point friedman was trying to make. Everything happens faster now.