This is the funniest thing I’ve read on Deadspin in a while. Of course if colleges made giving players a real education a higher priority than winning football games the athletes would be better off. But colleges don’t bring these guys in to give them an education, they bring them in to play football. Encouraging them…

Speaking of which, what happened to this year’s Why Your Website Sucks: Deadspin?

It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of people didn’t realize that Eastern and Central time zones have the same feed for recorded programming.

I disagree, for it to really count as breakup sex both people have to know it’s breakup sex. The situation you describe should be called “dumping sex”, because the unaware partner is about to be dumped.

That’s principally because Jezebel has realized that casting aspersions on allies generates more discussion (and hence pageviews) than actually supporting the movement.

I hate the darker approach to the Doctor the show has increasingly taken in the past couple of seasons. I hope Clara going down the same path is to be part of a larger character arc where the Doctor realizes the consequences of his actions, and not Moffat just doubling down on grimness.

The re-follow is a great shade tactic, mostly because of its latency. It tells your shade recipient: At one point, I didn’t fuck with you and you didn’t even know it.

“Wonderwall” is my proof that rock is dead, because it’s been 20 years and it’s still the defining “sensitive guy” song. That would be like somebody trying to impress girls by playing “Help!” in 1985.

Brand loyalty is for suckers, but sticking with a brand because they offer you want you want at a price you find agreeable is a reasonable strategy. Yeah, if you keep buying iPhones even though you hate them that’s pretty dumb, but otherwise satisficing (as opposed to optimization) is actually an excellent consumer…

This isn’t very specific advice. The article I need to read is, “How To Be A Gracious And Fun Platonic Wedding Date When You’re in Love with Her But She’s Already Turned Down Being More Than Close Friends”

Alternative scenario, the Torygraph article is just a paraphrase of the Guardian’s with a bit of bar-room speculation thrown in. Either way, you’re right that it means nothing.

I don’t want the Cubs to win because their futility streak is a part of baseball mythology now. Like with steroids, instant replay, or aluminum bats, the game would be fundamentally changed if the Cubs actually won it all. At that point MLB might as well just dissolve itself.

I will take “You can’t live anywhere near my family” odds over “this program lessens your chance of hurting them by 70%” odds any day of the week.

Root for the Yankees in the playoffs because, let’s face it, you’re a bandwagoner anyway.

Actually, my awesome scenario would be that the Patriots make it to the Super Bowl, the judge finds in favor of the NFL, and Brady’s four-game suspension begins with the championship. That would be delicious.

I don’t know, these denials don’t really prove anything. If you’re so disloyal that you were going to go to TMZ to complain about how badly managed your was, I would assume you were disloyal enough to lie about doing so afterwards.

Why is the outcome of every single soccer match taken to be indicative of the way things will be forever? City drops a match and it’s because English soccer is a joke. Arsenal surrender a dubious own goal they’re the worst team in sports. Messi has an injury and before he’s off the field Barcelona may as well forfeit…

I try, of course, during and after, but it doesn’t always lead to productive conversation. Because of where I live, there’s also often a language barrier, sometimes double.

Well, I will say this in defense of my peers: there aren’t really alternatives. The advice I’ve gotten from women on what’s attractive has varied between utter crap (Be Yourself!) and true but not helpful (Have Confidence! As if confidence were a pair socks you could put on). I think there’s a huge (and lucrative, if…