I would pay twenty bucks for an HBO special, hosted by Tom Ley, in which Westbrook tried to dunk on a bear.

Obviously he had in mind this passage from George Fox:

Huh, that’s funny. I read an article saying the opposite.

“uninterested.” “Disinterested” is a whole other thing.
- the 18th century

Huh, that second article isn’t as shitty as I thought it would be. Main point: only rich people (even those who work for lefty nonprofits) have the privilege to complain about their working conditions. Everyone else ends up just having to deal with it.  

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Kyrie

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Kyrie

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Kyrie

This is the way the world ends
This is…

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According to the Baylor handbook, “sex with the unwilling and unpaid” is the definition of the word “integrity.”

To wit. “Whoa, did you pay her after?”
“Nah man, I maintained integrity.”

+1 Bunhead

There’s a place for Machiavellian journalism, just coldblooded analyses of how power is being exerted and whether it’s succeeding. Maybe there’s too much of it in contemporary media, and maybe this guy in particular is an enormous tool who doesn’t deserve that benefit of the doubt (I don’t know enough to say), but I…

Mads makes Mads mad: maddeningly making Mads’s madness, maddened Madses made mad Madsness.

(I’ll show myself out now).

“extensions of the government” — what are you talking about?

You understand, right, that someone doesn’t have to use the word hero for it to be a hero narrative?

Put it this way: why is Joe Mixon the protagonist of the story? Why does Musburger feel it’s appropriate to talk about what he hopes Mixon’s life is like, and what Mixon’s life teaches? Why is the comment not,…

The problem is that the comment makes Mixon’s story into a hero narrative — as if he’s overcoming some difficult obstacle and we’re all just, gosh, hoping he makes it (of course, the only obstacle is his own moral turpitude).

As others say above, the point is that Mixon is not the hero of the story, and whether he is…

Maybe too philosophical for the mood, but, something on my mind:
Can sportsbro-style masculinity become an honorable form of integrity, or does it mostly just disintegrate into self-deception and irrational anger?

Protip: add the booze before refrigerating. It kills any possible salmonella and ensures safety. They did a study and everything. http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/our-modern-plagues/why-you-shouldnt-fear-eggnog

Expelling people from college is not ruining their lives.

Yeah, we live in Ankara, and my bet is TAK. This looks a lot like the Marchcar bomb attack.

My Turkish is pretty weak, but I think they’re saying “Guys, we made a mistake — that was a bear, not a journalist. Better dig him back out.”

Counterpoint: they are heroes together. After all, the undeflected ball is not worth scoring.