Albert, I usually love your stuff, but you’re living in a fantasy world on this one. The NCAA would come down on him just as hard as it has come down on everyone who challenges it. Do you really, really think that the NCAA would hesitate for even a second to ban him because of “public opinion”? When have they cared…

How would that help anyone? You're advocating a stand on principle that would just lead to players getting more exploited than they already are - that's not a productive way to operate.

But what would you have him do? You still haven’t made clear how things would be better if he resigned - there would just be a less helpful coach in his place.

That makes sense. If you don't love your job, you're defrauding your employer. If we weren't running out of space in our prisons already, we certainly would be once laws enshrining your bizarre worldview were passed.

Your friends are wrong about Ritalin and meth being the same thing, or even "basically" the same thing. I hear that a lot also about Adderall, and that's wrong too. Meth is sold legally under the trade name Desoxyn - none of those other drugs are meth.

I'm not sure I agree with this argument that he's a bad guy because he's making money off a corrupt system. Yes, he is doing that, but he's doing it in a way that's as beneficial to his players as possible. If he took a stand on principle and refused to coach, he'd just be replaced with someone less player-friendly…

Assuming that you're telling the truth, the second sentence of your first paragraph along with the following two paragraphs are indeed all facts.

I see what you mean - I didn't catch that read on my first pass. Now that I'm going back, I'm thinking it's likely yours is the right read, though I'm still not positive.

I respect this article for what you're saying and the message you're sending to your son.

Well hey there Bob!

Exactly. When I think of Andre Johnson, I think "great receiver". When I think of Cortland Finnegan, I think "that pest who got beat up by Andre Johnson".

"There wasn't much celebration from their bench today, so you didn't see him much."

Interesting - the Wikipedia page says that Panama City was excluded from the Panama Canal Zone, but presumably it's an issue of how "Panama City" is defined - I'd guess the suburbs aren't part of that excluded area. Definitely not something I'm an expert on, so I'll confess I'm just guessing on that point (and…

Wikipedia has him listed as being born in Panama City, which I believe was excluded from the Panama Canal Zone. He became a US citizen in 1986.

Blackman was born a Panamanian citizen, and became a U.S. citizen in 1986. See the second item on the page below:

What a very strange thing to complain about.

If the car was found 20 miles from where it was found, this really belongs on io9, because there must be some weird quantum physics shit at work here!

Hanging up pictures? We do that in my culture too!

For a long time I also thought it was referring to oral/anal penetration as "deviant sexual intercourse" - easy mistake to make when glancing at the statute.

It's just a different statute. I'm not sure about Kentucky, but in many states the laws are exactly the same, except rape relates to "sexual intercourse" (vaginal penetration) and sodomy relates to "deviate sexual intercourse" (oral or anal penetration).