No, that’s EXACTLY who watches American Idol. If you are looking for real talent, you have your favorite YouTube artists and radio stations. This is overwhelmingly popular in the South and places with fewer options. Also, I note that I think what she may be trying to say is: “I’m raised a nice Southern Baptist girl…

A heart attack of a game. Great playing all around, great coaching, absolutely awful officiating.

If we get a homicide and a few more Hope Solo domestic violence issues, maybe Roger G can expand the NFL to “real” football. Parity at long last!

And I appreciate that you are just the type who needs to keep backtracking in order to have the last word. Congrats and have a good day.

Well, in fairness, they do at least chase the deer off. But we rely on the cat for rodent control now. The dogs are more about cuddles.

You can’t have an inchoate breach of contract. You either do it or you don’t. I don’t have a copy of it; and you could be right that he’s trying both to get a new deal and get the best out of his old one. Whether he can do that or not depends on a lot of information I don’t have access to.

If “leaking” his unhappiness constitutes a breach, then yep you are right, he may not be entitled to that precise measure of damages. But again, these situations are not unusual, and my expectation is that the contract provides for them.

As one of my favorite judges once said: when you are looking for what’s fair, look to the contract. Everyone knew this could happen — it’s hardly unusual for teams and personnel to have differences. You build in the contingencies and take your lumps. If a gazillion dollar organization wanted to assure that their QB…

Bichons? No dude, Sammies. One of my Sammies killed a doe. By herself. I didn’t see a deer on my property for 4 years. And then she trotted in and kissed everyone, like she always did. The other Sammy is the one who ate the groundhogs. And that was great, if you garden. When she got old they came out to taunt her and…

Clearly you haven’t had one. They are stunningly beautiful and really sweet. They also eat mice, claw ground hogs out of their holes and eat them, will eat anything on any countertop, whether or not previously thought edible, are impossible to train (not because they are stupid, but because they view their own dignity…

He’s the Gary Shandling of the tour. Always looking for someone, anyone, to like him.

And, where does one take a course on it? Obviously not at any science based institution.

More likely? He just lies to his wife and sneaks food when he’s away with the team.

“holistic nutritionist” = overpaid personal magician. When they come down with that disease you get from eating too much kale I’ll laugh so hard my gin and tonic will spill out my nose into my coffee-flavored flan.

Serious question: how is it appropriation when you are being bothered to try it? Moreover, if you want to try something because you think it might be interesting, or look good, why is it appropriation (of course, as long as you nod to the heritage it comes from and don’t pretend you made it up).

I’m down with that. It’s reasonable to provide a little more support so that bright kids with opportunity have a chance to raise their game— what is not reasonable is for expectations of what makes a good bit of work to be compromised.

Dialog is necessary to develop a concrete goal. X percentage more minority grads? X percentage higher enrollees in particular disciplines? Higher GPAs for certain groups? People at some schools complain that though financial aid is generous, there’s not enough support on the academic side. So you get in somewhere…

Yes. They are, in many if not all states. The question is whether the clause is drafted to prevent them from simply reporting facts. There are ways to deal.

This is hardly the first time Rafa has been accused of doping. And not just by the French. And he always claims he’s going to sue and somehow the suits never get filed. Certainly, his whole history: brilliance, coming from behind, tremendous endurance, followed by inexplicable injuries and long breaks from the tour…

Great, now a stray Onion story could serve as the basis for nuclear strikes. Feel good about that America?