Actually, the one thing that I found most interesting was listening to his locker room interview - he said “I don’t plan on doing it again, but...” You can hear the recognition that he really doesn’t want to do this, he probably doesn’t know how to stop himself from doing this because he’s worked on learning how to…

People referenced it in this thread, I said it in another comment: you can’t act in bad faith because it’s an implied covenant. It doesn’t matter if it just says “operable,” if this is a contract, you can’t intentionally try to hurt VW. This type of principle applies in lots of areas of law - if you’re not an expert…

Probably been said already, but I’m not reading 953 replies to find out - I’m not a contract lawyer, but there’s generally an implied covenant of good faith in all contracts, and I would think that would extend to a deal like this. This is clearly bad faith - if I was going to do something like this, I definitely…

I’m getting really frustrated with people not understanding the concept of statistical analysis. And really really frustrated with people ‘blaiming’ Silver and telling him he’s ‘already atthe bottom, the only place he can go is up.’ They are pretty happy with what they did - they were the only outlet that warned…

I think you’re doing what you were doing before (and this is coming from someone who likes reading your work): you’re reading your own hopeful message into his appearance. He basically has RBF and you’re thinking it means he’s miserable. I’m sure he’s been lead on tours of all sorts of places - people want to show…

Ashley, I have a request. Are you anywhere near Drew Magary or Matt Novak? If so, can you please go over and punch them in the face for writing this shit: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/nate-silvers-very-very-wrong-predictions-about-donald-t-1788583912

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.

I was thinking that too! But still too many problems with it being Pitt. In particular he just didn’t seem to have that much of a connection with

Yes, so sorry that I didn’t live up to your journalistic standards in my completely speculative reply to a blog post about a blind gossip item.

Cruise has adopted children in addition to the biological one.

“Bad boy” was talking about a different article - the one where Sheen was HIV positive. But someone in another comment does mention that Jez seems to have suggestively included info about Sheen. Not to say that I’d be disappointed if it was him (don’t want anyone to be involved in this so I don’t ‘hope’ it’s any…

Oh god no oh god no oh god no. It just can’t be, right? That’s the first name that popped into my mind (with the “revered by millions”). But there are a few problems with that. First, said he was raped on set but Hanks was never in a movie with him. Second, usually these are all hints at something: mentioning…

I 1/10 agree with this. I 9/10 agree with this in general, but 1/20 agree in the case of Trump.

I think usually an interviewer says “not to get into the specifics” as a way to clarify that he isn’t stupid enough to expect the interviewee to divulge some big secret.

This is a really great article. Glad you wrote it, glad I read it. I was talking with my father this weekend about similar issues - specifically transgender athletes. He was a high school athletic director and it seems that that issue has only recently begun to be seriously discussed at that level. He didn’t pretend…

I just don’t understand how some people think that they get to be in a public space and dictate the actions of other people in the same public space. Other than basic rights and the even more basic societal standards of decency (meaning ‘don’t take a shit on the subway’ kind of standards), you don’t get to decide what…

EVERY month. This happens EVERY month. It’s not my job to look for deals, but I realized this about 6 months ago. Maybe there are exceptions, but in the past 4 or 5 months I don’t think they’ve skipped a month.

EVERY month. This happens EVERY month. It’s not my job to look for deals, but I realized this about 6 months ago.…

In this specific case, I think it’s right for the NCAA to not have one specific ball, because one specific ball means the NCAA itself is taking all the money. At least this way it’s the school and each school can make the decision how to use the money (and maybe one school would actually use that money to lower the…

I did “Youth in Government” in NH as a high school student. There were a few incidents where some people (one being our supervisor/advisor teacher) felt like our conduct on the floor of the House was a slap in the face to this sacred institution. Nice to see that the kids trying to change the state animal from a deer…

Steve Jobs famously carried around an IBM Thinkpad when he came back to Apple. It showed a few things: 1) during the time he carried it around, he was saying that he understood he wasn’t making the best computer in the world and 2) when he did start carrying around a mac, he had more credibility to back up statements…