he looked wobbly even before that play started

I guess, but you could say that about anyone who speaks about anything. I’m not looking to the courts to be ministry of what is true and not true. Rather, I want them to protect my right to call out what is bullshit and have a free and open dialogue.

You should want the same too. If you lived in a state where the…

Wow those two kids are acting like a couple of....

If it was a player who was hit late by another I think your analysis holds, but the fact that it is a referee, and therefore someone who is not a “participant,” wouldn’t that lead to the conclusion that getting hit in a back by two players nowhere near a play isn’t an inherent risk that he would reasonably anticipate.

theres fairly established case law across the country dealing with violence in the sports context. A lot of it comes out of lawsuits but sometimes it is a criminal action. Here’s an example: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewconten…

The fact that the referee is not a typical “participant” in the game makes…

I’m not sure which case reporter you’re reading but there is no “protected political speech” doctrine for defamation claims. What there is however, is the rule derived from NY Times v. Sullivan: that an incorrect statement about a public figure is not defamatory unless it is made with actual malice (or a reckless…

no we dont even like soccer really

little?

So we would have all been cool with Dick.Cheney@hotmail.com shooting around plans to privatize the interior and shore up false iraq intelligence instead of his whitehouse.gov account to avoid FOIA?

The rules are in place because those emails are supposed to be public to safeguard from that kind of fuckery. You…

the caffeine in excedrin probably helped more, but i too like tylenol for headaches

amount of acetamenophine you’d have to take to cause liver damage , even with alcohol in your system is way more than a normal dose. stop scaring people

multiple federal judges, but you’re right. Some people think he didn’t just do ALL he could do, but that he exceeded power to get it done.

The only way you can criticize him for not doing enough is if you believe that he knew the EO route wasnt going to stand up to scrutiny, and took that option instead of pursuing…

DONT BE RIDICULOUS

“Small details win games. Leaving your club on the side of the green shows a lack of focus and you deserve to lose.”

classy!

dude you’re quibbling. Do you look at stop signs and say they’re not octogons because they have the dimension of depthy?

It can’t be that you don’t see the pigs as representing the roles of Stalin, Trotsky, and other leaders who carried the banner of marxism. You see it, but you don’t want to call it marxism because in…

they were marxists. orwell was a dreamer who thought some ideal of democratic socialism was achievable.

the indian music video that was the ad before the last u2 clip was UNSANE. how do we do an article about that?

the pigs were communist. . . . . .

did you even read animal farm?

Turnout makes sense.

But pointing to seats that are up for re-election is not the right metric. You want to look at competitive seats thats are up for re-election. Those are significantly less and amount to 7, maybe 8 if you’re generous.