Based on the stunning degree of self-regard it requires for KO to do such overeager self-righteous grandstanding, you’d think he had the biggest viewership/readership in all of media. But who pays attention to him? Fox News and right wing radio pundits have an army of zombie zealots listening to every word, but KO…

Ah Glenn Beck, the guy who helped pave the way for the rise of Trump. In the coming state religion of Trump, Beck will be John the Baptist to Trump's Jesus.

Let’s all give some love to Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” here. He was the first to ask in a mass-market medium the question that has brought us to this fateful moment. How can poor white people vote for a party that uses social issues as both lure and distraction to push economic policies designed…

Her comment “disavowing” her words from 20 years ago was very hedged, crafted Clintonesque pablum. She said she wouldn’t have used those words, but presumably the policy and racial animus behind it are still OK. Far from “falling on the sword.”

Pretty sad state of affairs if Hillary is the most electable progressive. Only after and relative to 12 years of Reagan-Bush would Clintonism be considered "progressive" (which is was sold as even in '92). She and Slick Willy drove the Democratic party to the right on a lot of issues both social/political and…

Trump just spews out whatever he thinks will get him press and votes, but I doubt he’s actually got the fortitude to pursue any of his proposals to completion if it gets too tough. He’ll just abandon it, say he was against it all along, and blame the failure on others. Cruz on the other hand, likely believes in his…

For anyone in a serious committed monogamous relationship, the advice in this article is a disaster waiting to happen. For anyone else, the take away here is that you should crush to keep your options open, but half-assedly hedge. But why INDULGE a crush at all then? It’ll grow like cancer, until you do something…

This is supposed to be TV right? A medium designed to first and foremost, entertain, then maybe as an ancillary benefit, inform. Viewership on a Saturday for TV, in general, must be relatively low other than for sports and special programs in the evening. Viewership for "young people" even lower, as they most likely…

This should be the standard copy blurb where any summary of Stallone's life is needed, which shouldn't be too often. But this is good shit here.

And by comparison, the average starting salary for a first-year associate at the same firm has increased by roughly $50K. So yeah, being a paralegal in NYC is an even shittier proposition now than it was when I was a twenty-two year old in NYC willing to live on cheap beer and free happy hour appetizers in order to…

I started as a paralegal in 2001 right out of college at a huge firm in Manhattan and my starting salary was $35K. It was still apparently $35K seven years later. 15 years laters, it has gone up $2K. 15 years —> $2K increase in starting salary. Puja's conclusion/assumption is, though technically no incorrect, is very,…

Kap, no Kap...does it even matter? The implosion of the Niners franchise as a sporting operation, which began in the BS leading up to Harbaugh’s firing, will now be on an accelerated schedule thanks to Chip Kelly. It's like watching the Dennis Erickson era starting, all over again, except with the absolute guarantee…

I’ll buy that. Always in the mix to win the league, but virtually guaranteed to lose out to the 2-3 clubs that spend a gulf emir’s fortune in new transfers at the mid-year window. In a sane footballing world, Arsenal’s model is what most “super clubs” should be doing, but now everyone’s adopted the "way of the…

While I understand that those who appreciate the long shadows cast by the history of the EPL, this is like asking why an NFL fan under the age of 65 would glibly characterize the Browns as “perennial losers.” It just takes too much effort for Billy Haisley to say “middling club in a major English city that won a bunch…

Enjoy it while it lasts. I’m dreading the day when Wenger’s powers tail off enough where he is seriously in danger of being sacked. Once that happens, justified though it might be when it comes, what will follow will be the Liverpool and Man U debacle, but with the gut punch self-defeating misery of Arsenal. Given how…

Love how you and Billy H. both generously keep lumping Arsenal in with the top clubs. I'm an Arsenal fan, and I can't say with a straight face that Arsenal has been at the level of Man U, Chelsea, and Man City in the last 10-12 years. The last time Arsenal had that kind of across the board roster talent was when…

See Phoebe Cates' character in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

I’ll just leave this article on the "Flying Wedge" here...

When I see documentaries with old former players who played, say, O or D line, before the 70's, they look noticeably smaller than modern day LBs. You see them in their old age and they look like average joes, just a bit taller. It really reminds me of how teams in rugby or other “football”-styled sports tend to have…

I recently saw a long Showtime or HBO produced documentary on the ‘85 Bears and there’s a (now-)horrifying segment where Singletary and Dent talk about how most of their “best” hits then would now draw flags and fines. On screen you see a hit where Dent just smacks a QB in the head with his elbow and then hurls him to…