“and oh yeah, I played in the fucking NFL.”

Posted this on George Dvorsky’s post, hope it’s not poor form to reproduce here.

I am so sick of that guy getting credit for my work.

Seriously. And with his family in the car, too. Doing that and then bragging about doing it is some real next-level stupidity. (And praising him for it is a whole other flavor of stupidity.)

What’s more likely: that women who work at ESPN are disproportionately likely to sign up for a cheating website vs. women elsewhere (because no way are 20% of AM’s users women), or that many/most of those women were unwittingly registered by their male coworkers, who obviously know their email addresses and have a…

I think you’re onto something. This news immediately made me think of Ronnie Lott and Trevor Wikre heroically ordering their doctors to cut off their fingers to get them back on the field sooner. That would be pretty nice spin for JPP, especially if he was going to lose the finger or substantial use of it anyway.

Your experience is exactly what I hate about weddings. The industry and the cultural conventions are all set up to funnel us toward making expensive choices that don’t really reflect who we are.

I suppose I came to believe that was a polite and normal thing to write to your guests because 85% of the countless (well, 30ish) weddings I’ve attended have had a similar message for attendees, and they’ve all been traditional affairs.

That brings up up a whole different conversation about “need” and wedding gifts. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, but the point of gift and registries in the first place was to help a young couple set up their first household. For grown people who already have all the things regular people need, expecting…

How is a $125 cutting board or a $100 pair of walkie-talkies evidence of a rich couple putting their less-rich friends in an awkward position? There’s all kinds of shit on here at all different price points that someone could feel good about giving. There are definitely presents only a rich person would give, but…

You’re reaching here. I look at this and I see a mix of expensive items and affordable items. Yes, an $800 bike is a very expensive gift, but it’s not absurdly expensive for, say, a family member, or several people going in together, or another rich person. (I’m guessing that among the guests at this wedding will be a…

The fellow wearing the tie is none other than Matthew Yglesias, and he is a known dandy, which is to say the sort of person you would expect to be a reflexive wine snob/pocket watch aficionado/gold-headed cane devotee.

The joke is on all of us. Adam Sandler movies are so shit-crammed with product placement, they make money before anyone buys a ticket. That fleet of candy-colored Mini Coopers means this turd can bomb just as badly as his last half-dozen movies and he'll still get paid whatever he wants to make another one. I…

Interesting that you bring up the catcalling video. My response to it, as a straight white dude, was, "Wow, women have to deal with a lot more street harassment then I knew about." I thought it was pretty powerful. But then, like six hours after it came out, we weren't talking about street harassment anymore but about…

That's great. I have nothing against him or how he made his money. I wish there were more people moving up the economic ladder, as he has done, but instead there are fewer than there were in the past. The fact that there are still some who succeed in doing it shouldn't be used to shut down the conversation about…

How about "I'm all for enjoying what you've earned, but beyond a certain point displays of conspicuous consumption are just garish reminders of the way the rollback of progressive taxation leads to an ever greater concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, who then use their vast economic resources to tilt the…

What great news for pilots. They don't have to worry about getting shot down by a missile anymore! Now as long as no one develops some kind of new weapon that's not a missile but is capable of destroying large airborne objects with great precision, they'll be safe forever!

As an MLS fan, I don't go to games because I think the soccer is the same quality as that played in the EPL. I go because it's a lot easier to get to Red Bull Arena than to White Hart Lane. And if the product on the field is subpar compared with European or South American leagues, the fan experience is outrageously…