Undocumented workers pay taxes, but they generally do not pay income taxes. To the extent that they had a stolen SSN and had taxes withheld from their checks, then they might be paying income taxes, but that number is probably less than 2% of all illegal immigrants. I think that you can rest assured that very few…

Spencer Hall is generally a skilled writer, seems to be a conscientious person and is more-than-a-little “pc”. How did this get under his radar only to be retracted so quickly? Does “editorial director” not mean that he had the ultimate approval in publishing the story?

ooooh. so edgy.

I hate to break it to you that those cows that make the milk for non-rennet cheese are also killed for meat after they no longer can produce milk. The calves are not killed to produce rennet. It’s a byproduct.

Bad news. They’re not leaving, because they’re fucked if they go to LA, and they’d have to pay $500 million just for the privilege. They are just going to be a paying tenant at Kroenke-world. Even if they have to pay a lot more to stay in San Diego, they’ll be able to claim a much bigger share of the ancillary…

Actually, Spanos is much more fucked than you make him out to be. His franchise isn’t going to double in value with a move to LA, primarily because he’s going to be Kroenke’s bitch. Kroenke is going to own the stadium and all the development surrounding it. Spanos is going to have to be the tenant—basically on…

Fascinating. It’s almost like Target (yeah, that Target) hasn’t been doing this for the last five years, or more.

It seems to me that the era of the “launch oneself as a missile” tackle coincided with players adopting smaller shoulder pads. Look back at pro and college film up until the early 90s. Everyone wore the biggest pads they could possibly fit on their frames. The typical 300 pound lineman today wears smaller shoulder…

Dear Biebs you talentless moron:

We’ll start with what I do to your mom.

Who cares? Maybe they do feel it’s immoral. I’m sure there might be things that I do that you feel are immoral; I’d appreciate you not trying to make them illegal. Their words aren’t going to hurt you, are they?

No, that’s called being an adult and a reasonable person.

Hillary, you really put a lot of effort into this post. Regurgitating a Slate article within minutes of its posting is the height of science reporting.

I came here to say something similar. That 4 yard cushion isn’t nearly as much as it seems in a still picture and when the ball has to travel 35 yards in the air.

I’m still listening, but I guess I have to move past expecting Bergdahl to be some sort of protagonist (or even an anti-hero) and just appreciate the broader story. It doesn’t have anything to do with it not being true crime. My frustration is more related to my initial expectation that Serial was designed to provide…

I disagree, and it doesn’t have anything to do with murder porn. It’s a story that’s been told a million times already, dating back to the Roman legions: “The army makes a lot of bad decisions—often for political reasons—and many of its officers/leaders are incompetent.” So far, there hasn’t been much more to it than…

It’s pretty rough. There is just nothing compelling about it, and she didn’t even interview Bergdahl herself. She’s just relying on prerecorded interview tapes that someone else made. I’ve continued listening just to see if there’s ever a payoff. As masterfully as the story was told on with the original series, it…

Agreed. Kind of weird, though, that they stopped doing the Serial updates before the hearing was done. That trial was only the thing that put Serial on the map. I guess Sarah Koening needed to get back to boring us to death with her dreadful story about Bowe Bergdahl. I’d bet that the numbers of the listeners to the…

Whatever. Get back to me when Baylor starts covering up murders.

Are you really suggesting that Pam Oliver was meaningfully more competent than Erin Andrews? They are both idiots hired because they look good. Unfortunately for Pam Oliver, she was at her peak looks in the 90s whereas Erin Andrews was at peak looks in the late 00s. Live by the sword, die by the sword.