so many down-and-out people voted for Donald Trump with the idea he would help them.

And everyone is so wrapped up in the political theater Trump is creating (cabinet nominations, who tf is Frederick Douglass, Steve Bannon), we’ve yet again skipped over the fact that our POTUS still hasn’t fucking fully divested himself from his businesses, many of which will likely benefit from the financial…

Here’s the thing to keep in mind as well, Pepper Hamilton found that there was a complete institutional failure generally when dealing with sexual assaults. So even outside of athletes being involved, the university blamed and threatened victims who came forward even when the alleged perpetrators were not student…

That text stood out to me as well. The other one that got me was the text about the player pointing a gun as a student. The text said she was “acting traumatized.” It’s incredible how the default with these guys always seems to be toward language that casts women as lying. Like, it’s not possible that she was actually…

but they were. he made big bucks as the special prosecutor in the Clinton case. Ken Starr is a fucking hypocritical scumbag.

As is becoming normal for me, I kind of gloss over the total awfulness and seize on some ludicrous detail. This time: I really appreciate Art Briles, Educator of Young Men, Moral Titan, Proud Cog In the Ethical Infrastructure of a Proudly Christian University, commenting on five of his players who allegedly gang-raped…

It’s important to keep in mind that Baylor is a christian school with students who value faith and moral character. If these young women found themselves in undesirable situations, they ought to be looking at their own poor choices and conduct that played a part. This is perhaps another good reminder that young women…

Well, The NY Times investigated Florida State pretty heavily (I don’t want to say ‘thoroughly’, because who knows what they didn’t find? And I’m not sure that school ranks much higher on the meter than Baylor. I mean, isn’t Baylor #2 in the current basketball rankings for both their men’s and women’s teams? Why are any…

For a school that supposedly follows Jesus’ teaching in all things, they sure have seemed to lose their moral compass. I don’t recall Jesus saying “Cover up for the rapists, for they shalt lead thee to the Big 12 Championship.”

The line that stuck out to me in the texts was the Shillinglaw one that said “if [VP for Student Life] Jackson does not reinstate President will.” Just blatantly stating that the entire organization is designed to bury disciplinary actions against football players. Thus the Regents have the same problem Briles did:…

You’re right based on the fact they apparently view themselves as ethical, but in the public’s eye they lost any and all moral high ground decades ago.

If the NCAA doesn’t give Baylor the Death Penalty after this, then they can never again consider themselves an institution with any morals or ethics.

Thanks for covering this. If this were happening at Alabama it would be a damn media feeding frenzy, but it’s happening in Waco, Texas. The criminal is more important than the crime, it seems, but that shouldn’t be governing the news. It should be what we need to hear - not what we want to hear. Keep it up.

At least roaches have the decency to scatter and get out of sight when the lights turn on; Most of the scumbags associated with this program tried to stand behind their actions/go on media tours to make themselves look innocent instead of acknowledging they shit the bed and fading away from the public eye. Literally…

I said that in a bit of a joking manner. That said, it is hard to see how an attorney could have either one of these coaches come to them and honestly believe either one of them was unjustly let go, or even that they could squeeze the university for a settlement.

I dont know Bill Self personally, but he could be a pretty decent guy who does run a pretty tight program. He however has no control on what two shithead players on his team do after hours. If it comes out that they did do this stuff, he should come down hard - like done for the year. These aren’t innocent teenager…

I read a good piece (may even have been on Deadspin) that protests work by slowly eroding options. We haven’t even really begun economic protests— look how this minor boycott changed events. Imagine what 100 million of us refusing to pay taxes would do to the administration. Congress might even get interested in…

Oh, were there millions of people in the streets before the election? Somehow I missed that.

Great work by you and Moskovitz keeping the light on these cockroaches.

Agreed. Dad was normcore GOP, Mom areserved Dem, but neither particularly passionate. I registered initially as Republican - Christ, I remember I did it from the hallway of my high school, right outside the cafeteria! - because in 1998 growth and optimism were all over this country, and I had started a part-time job,…