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He may be an insufferable prick, but he's also 100% correct. All of the major sports competitions (World Cups, Olympics, PanAm, etc.) now just serve to make the respective governing bodies shitloads of money and the actual "labor" gets very little if any compensation. The Olympics generate multiple billions in

Yeah but IOS is better because dur dur dur.
Therefore the IPad is technically superior a duuuuuuur.

Don't be fucking stupid. More Americans are better educated than any other time in history. You think the average American from any previous era of American history was more intelligent and knowledgeable than the average American now? I'd be willing to bet money that at very worst it's about the same. We think

That's a black man in the US saying that Sam shouldn't have a chance because it wouldn't be smooth.

Statute of Limitations. 12 Monkeys is almost 20 years old .

Parents Night is dreadful. Last year I was singled out by a teacher in a room full of judgmental parents because my 3rd grader, for the "art show", drew a picture of a chicken giving a horse a hand-job. Seriously. I have the photo prove it if you provide me with an e-mail to send it. When I got home, I feared

Sorry, but as a woman I can say without feeling insecure: we are off-brand. Any woman that tries to argue that we can somehow match the men is making us all look crazy and unwilling to admit to physical differences. Surely you don't honestly think that we can ever match the product they put out, do you?

I'm a poorer person for having read that.

The baseball-card collection I had as a teen—145,000 cards in all when I last bothered to count, 800-count box after

Typical of a racehorse owner, he feels no shame beating a dead horse.

If you're scoring at home, that's one infuriating horse death due to a scoreboard speaker, 412,326 due to greedy trainers injecting sore horses with nerve numbing drugs. The number of horses (and for that matter jockeys) who have died on the track when no ethical human being would have let them so much as gallop is

i guess my perspective is that athletes coming out matters today, so that athletescoming out won't matter in the future.

Excellent piece Barry. Although, I'd like to offer my thoughts on a particular line: Coming out is now a stage-managed media event, scripted and choreographed in a way that ensures America receives only the most telegenic version of what at bottom is still a deeply personal act.

The point Athlete Alley and Taylor are missing is the coming out news belongs to the athlete coming out. Not the community, not the team, not the coach, not the advocacy groups. The news belongs to the athlete and no one else, ever.

I've seen several stupid real-world arguments develop between family and/or friends because someone was unfriended on Facebook. In my mind, the minute social media starts creating problems in real life, social media needs to go (or be cut way back). So I'm a very infrequent Facebook user, and I do not post anything

agree. I know people who "opened" their relationships or started with that premise. Didn't really work. I'm sure it can work for some folks, just not most. Also, who the hell has time? Between work, hobbies, friends, and watching sports, who the hell has time to manage a separate fuck life? Unless you work in the same

I'm probably going to get shredded up for typing this post, but I feel like there's probably others like me who had a similar experience this weekend - but maybe I'm the only one:

Where's the outrage over the NBA owner who supports homophobic causes?