“the professor who every year dates a first-year grad student and manages to send her reputation, not his, into the mud.”

Nobody remembers who won NCAA football titles except people who went to big football schools. Everyone remembers a good blindering scandal.

Looking through the comments section here, it seems like a huge part of the problem is not the system, but people generally being shitty to each other, which strikes me as a way easier fix than overhauling a system that doens’t sound like it’s too effective to begin with anyway.

“What Brady (and by proxy the Patriots org) did impacted the game, and thus the most severe punishment should be levied against them.”

That’s the same supplement that defending women’s world champion 1500m runner Abeba Aregawi just got pegged for, as well as a handful of top marathoners. All took it legally before 2016, all got pegged for continuing to do so.

Maybe if women didn’t make it such a habit of laughing at men, they wouldn’t get killed so much.

“Both of them were unremarkable, unless you want to hear about young conservatives groping each other in a crowded bar, which you probably don’t.”

Can’t speak for all of those, but Buffalo and Pittsburgh are slowly pulling themselves out of their economic misery, and are increasingly nice places to live (though in both cases the slummiest of the slums are still pretty rough).