It doesn’t have to be. Sports/team culture definitely can get toxic, but the good teams and the good coaches that I’ve been involved with haven’t functioned that way. Good leadership can curtail a lot of abusive team behaviors. 

Even when I was in high school I thought it was weird when they’d advertise 16 year old cheerleader bikini car washes as a fundraiser and all the townies were lined up. Chris Hansen would have made a killing that day

While I can partially agree with your first point about the show’s S1 peak the idea that it chickened out on Rust’s nihilism doesn’t stand up imo. Mainly because he’s never actually a believer in his nihilism it’s his shield - Marty 100% nails Rust during the scene at the preacher’s tent when he says he sounds…

So I think what’s being lost in this, and I’m not playing devil’s advocate here, is that this admission isn’t so much about race as it is the otherizing of assault perpetrators in an attempt to reinforce his own understanding of his identity. Liam wants to be a good person, and in order to maintain that goodness he…

It seems like the shitty move is mobilizing consumers to try to enforce a near monopoly on digital sales, even though the 30% commission is usurious at best.

It’s absolutely acceptable to be happy that an awful human being is dead. Just because you die doesn’t somehow absolve you from being an asshole. Just because you did something good in your life doesn’t make up for the unforgivably bad things you did.

There are so many parts to this video that everyone seems to see and miss at the same time. It’s like the fucking Zapruder of racism.

Walgreens has been around since before prohibition. Scripts for alcohol during prohibition is what allowed them to build their empire. I think they went from like 20 stores to 500 stores during prohibition.

It worries me a bit how he doesn’t at all feel bad for the fact that his girlfriend is supporting him. Not to sound chauvinistic, and I don’t date women that don’t work, but most men seem to be raised with the same ideals I was taught: you take care of your lady as best you can. You take care of your children with…

There was a time in my life when I’d have done exactly the same.

I think I’d still really want to, if I had children—whether it was a young man or a young woman—but I would also really want to respect their choices, their individuality, and their adulthood.

I’d try to stay out of it—but I don’t know if I’d be able.

That…

Yes, but this picture received an unusually high level of visibility. This isn’t some small-time Twitter account that nobody knows about; it’s literally the most visible account in the world.

Most women have “Woman’s intuition” as it is called, an instinctive feeling that certain men are wrong somehow or dangerous. I don’t agree that this is anger about her brother. For her these guys have a personality that she finds magnetic, but  that would disgust most of us. It may go back to bad men around her when…

Until recently I actually liked him. Casual fan, to be sure, but I liked reading interviews with him and always enjoyed his appearances on Stewart and Colbert, and found him to be a likable and inspiring figure. I’m more disappointed than anything. But I always care when a celebrity abuses others and their fans come…

As a (now) retired player, and renowned exploder of innocents, I would encourage people to try the game.

That’s actually not quite true. I went to private school when I lived in Texas because my mom didn’t trust public schools even though she worked in them. She wanted to affect change before putting us in non-religious school. Hell, even at my bible thumping Baptist private school didn’t have Moses as a historical…

Don’t be silly, they don’t think Catholics are real Christians. Heck, they don’t even believe most Protestants are real Christians. And, I won't even mention what they think of the Jews. 

I used to work at TrustedReviews - I left several months before the offending article was published. I don’t have intimate knowledge of why TI Media, which owns TrustedReviews, chose to settle the case, but I know no laws were broken obtaining the documents. To my knowledge, they were emailed anonymously to a member…

I mean, you could certainly make the argument that all information serves a public good and that part of a journalist’s job is cutting through the marketing cycle instead of just regurgitating what publishers want said. But let’s say you don’t believe in that argument. Here’s a good example.

There’s an important distinction to be made here between a leaker and a journalist. When someone leaks a document to the journalist, it’s entirely the journalist’s prerogative whether or not they want to report on that. They have not signed any NDAs and have no obligation to protect companies’ secrets. In fact, a…

maybe by typical standards, but it's markedly better than a cardboard box or overpass.