I’m a cord cutter, but I have watchESPN plus ESPN is on SlingTV (which I use), so I’m actually watching more ESPN now that I don’t have cable than when I did.

People don’t understand compounding. Growing by a small percentage every year is impossible, whether the economy, a business or anything else (other than the universe, I guess).

Only reading half the field got Troy Aikman to the hall of fame, didn’t it?

It makes sense.

I bet I make more money than you, and I know that some of it is because I was born into a family that could pay for my ivy league education.

Keep telling yourself that using 11 words where 3 would do is good writing.

We have lower taxes than just about any industrialized country. We have the most stable and best functioning economy in the world right now (and that was absolutely not the case when Obama came into office). There’s nothing to complain about — which drives assholes like you nuts because you have a persecution complex…

Maybe it’s time to revisit those high school math classes so you can learn how logic works. Unless, of course, you’re saying everyone who works equally hard will be equally successful.

And hopefully it creates such a clusterfuck in its death spiral that we have to institute single payer and just get it over with.

I’m about as liberal a person as you’ll find, but the difference between state and federal mandates is significant from a constitutional law perspective. That’s not an example of a republican making a mountain out of minutiae, it’s an actual difference in law.

You’re missing some pretty big constitutional law concepts here. Yes the distinction between whether the state or the federal government mandates something matters. A lot in some cases.

You should read the SCOTUS decision. It’s a tax.

“the original Gizmodo article” means the first article on this site. If you’re going to be a pedantic asshat, be accurate.

When someone spends money to advocate against their best interests because they think it’s good for everyone else while the Kochs advocate for things like getting rid of the EPA because it would be profitable for them despite being bad for the entire rest of the world, that’s not comparable.

No. You’re frankly just not good at thinking and/or communicating. You should maybe take a break. While you take a break, ask yourself if someone is willing to break the law severely enough to sexually abuse a child, why they would also be so respectful of the law that they wouldn’t be willing to go in the wrong…

The only thing you’re right about is that it’s not rocket science. But there’s no immutable law of contracts or finance that says that teams would choose to offer players less upfront just because they actually have to pay them the full amounts. They could, instead, just make less profit. You’re assuming one of the…

I once said something was gay while playing call of duty in a room where I was one of two straight people, and maybe 7 or 8 gay people were also there. I was horrified as soon as I said it, my (gay) brother-in-law started giving me shit about it, and one of his gay friends told him to quit being such a fag. I’m not…

I’m so fucking tired of reading posts from people that think that things like salaries and prices are set at a level that’s all the team’s can afford rather than what they have to pay or charge to get the result they want. Paying the amounts they contract for would be consistent with every other sport and with all the…

I liked the part where you were a condescending cunt, but also wrong.