Yeah, this idea that you can just scream down in a professional setting is insane. In a whole lot of environments if a boss was screaming at *and charging at* an employee and the employee told them to fuck off, the odds are really good that it would be the boss who got fired. Beyond that, in many professions the…

Hey, fuck-knuckle — it was Izzo who made the analogy with other work settings. It’s right up there. In the post. He starts with “I don’t know what kind of business you’re in ....”. Reading is hard, but it surely isn’t THAT hard.

Yep — it’s not worth the First Amendment fight to try to expel or punish them, but the university could absolutely engage in a concerted effort to make sure that none of this is anonymous and that their names are known. Put their full names into every press release and mention them in every interview. The right to…

Don’t you dare speak ill about the Fluffernutter, sir.

Damn. Heil.

Typical Boeheim, always killing it in February, dead himself by March.

Dwight Evans, please and thank you.

I got there for grad school when OU had finished something like four years in a row ranked dead last or in the bottom three in SI’s then-annual ranking of all college teams in what was then Division I-A. But mine also coincided with Jim Grobe’s arrival and everything has gone reasonably well since then. Not that…

Except your reductionist depiction of what he is writing is shallow and wrong. His take isn’t the hot one. Yours is. Sometimes it’s worth laying out an actual argument. Just stop. No one’s impressed.

Sure, but look at how you’re putting your thumb on the scale. Leagues are more than their top teams. The very fact that we can debate that Atlanta, the MLS champion, might be able to play in the second tier of English football (yes, I would say they could *possibly* hang with Roterham, which is currently in a…

Top ten is a huge leap. MLS isn’t within range of the SECOND leagues in several European countries, and there are probably a dozen or so other countries around the world that can make a claim to having better leagues than mls. Yes, money will help equalize, but I would not make the case that mls is top 20, never mind…

Yeah, while you are busy patting yourself on the back, you apparently are missing that you actually just really look like an idiot here. By the way, can we retire “tl;dr” forever? You are in a medium where you have to read. If it’s “tl” you might just be a fucking idiot.

Or is he exactly the opposite?

It seems that academic and non-fiction publishing get it mostly right by having the blurbs either come directly from reader’s reports or their equivalent or else have the blurb come from those readers but maybe in more publicity-oriented (as opposed to editorial) form.

Sure, the 2nd amendment is what it is. But what is it? For the vast majority of US history the Supreme Court, the ultimate arbiter of these things, did not see in that amendment an unfettered right to own personal handguns. Then along comes Heller.

Yeah, fuck that. These guys love to pretend they are the toughest straight talkers ever, and as soon as someone from outside of their macho posturing world enters and speaks in their language they turn into the exact people they like to deride for being weak.

Actually Texas is almost perfectly on a 1:1 ratio with regard to taxes out/federal expenditures in — it is nowhere close to the actual giver states like California and New York.

One of the real flaws implicit in the question seems to be that NFL players are superior athletes to NBA players. We have no reason to believe that is true. At all.

Yessir. I live in Texas and the barbecue places that either occasionally have cabrito or else have it as a secret menu item are closer to God than most Texans think they are.

The Maryland situation is shitty. But it involves some world-class self-absorption to think it’s shitty because a major university president didn’t email YOU back personally.