As an aside — I think Manning should have won that Heisman. Nothing against Charles Woodson, but he was a very good player who was lucky enough to have an ENORMOUS game late in the season against OSU in a highly visible national TV game that was fresh in the voters’ minds right before the Heisman vote. (Plus, Ryan…

Very extremely true. I spent 3rd grade and beyond here in MetroWest, and if you exclude the kids bussed in to our schools via a program that took city kids and sent them to suburban schools (not to integrate, but to get those kids a better education).... I think we had maybe 4 or 5 black people in our entire 1300…

I hate myself for loving this.

“Hey! Cut that shit out!”

Beat everyone to it.

A reading from the Book of Tebow:

Says the guy who went spikes-first kicking into a guy’s knee.

He’s a goofy, random, awesome Yinzer, that one....

I wonder if it’s time for Disney to start contemplating selling ESPN off. It’s a big drag on their earnings right now, and I doubt it’s going to get any better. ABC is the complicating factor, though. ESPN’s rights packages provide a significant slice of content for ABC, which probably would not remain if they sold…

The underlying problem is with people viewing Kickstarter as some sort of “investment” in the product. It’s not. At all. What it is, and I’ve never actually seen anyone discuss this, is the company/developer short-selling their product. The purchase portion is conducted now, with delivery coming at some point in…

It’s actually a lot bigger than that. If Kickstarter took money and dispensed it based on managerial benchmarks, and refunded money to backers if the benchmarks were not met, it’s highly likely that it would wind up being treated as a venture capital fund. And if it were, it could not, under SEC rules, accept money…

Yeah, I know. Tilting at windmills and such...

Kraft isn’t in violation of the rules. Apollo’s investment is a portfolio position, not an operating interest. As such, it does not earn revenue, by any standard, that is attributable to gambling operations from it — it earns dividends and capital gains, i.e. portfolio income.

Nobody seems to have mentioned it in this thread so far (although with the new scrolling system I have no idea whether I’ve actually seen all the comments....), but Michael Felger is one of the highest-paid sports radio hosts in Boston, if not the country. His wife, Sara Underwood, is the co-host of the local Fox…

I think I may have played a little too much Persona in my life, because while reading this article about taboo sex, all I could think was “but what arcana are they?”

I’m going to go way, way out on a limb and say that the knuckleball probably wasn’t knuckling tonight.

I plan to live forever, and... so far, so good.

The Chosen Again One

You’re married and you both work—you’ll each have your own W-4 and they will be different. Spouse #1 with higher paying job—claim MARRIED and all the allowances for the family. Spouse #2 with the lower paying job—claim MARRIED BUT WITHHOLD AT HIGHER SINGLE RATE, ZERO ALLOWANCES

Ayup.