On the second point, no one who knew a wit about physical conditioning and motivation would think that these methods increase your chances of winning. Just look at two of the examples of their conduct:

Unless you are a young, enormous black man this might not be an apples-to-apples comparison

And I still go to the grocery store to get my shit, mostly because I don’t want someone picking my steak for me. I want full steak control. I also reserve the right to make an impulse pork rinds purchase if I so desire.

GTFO, he probably pays more taxes than Donald Trump

 thanks to William Finnegan in The New Yorker,

See, it’s funny because the government is doing something awful to children. 

I am in fact, a man’s man who leaves the lid up in public restrooms so the following guest I make eye contact with as I leave knows I’m not the one tinkling all over the seat.

Have you ever been in a bathroom used only be a woman, let alone one with multiple women? They’re fucking disaster zones.

Those Boston Nets sure have a bright future.

Uh, they weren’t just marching around on the Gaza side of the border. They were actively trying to pull apart sections of the fence.

The number of liberals that supports Hamas is kind of amazing.

Handicap stall all day, brother.

You know what’s great about bathrooms in public places in Europe? They’re an entire enclosed room. That’s fucking great. You can do whatever you want in them. Just don’t pass out after shooting up in them, that’s rude.

Brad Stevens outcoaches just about all of them.

Top 5 Who Songs: 5:15, Love Reign O’er Me, Who Are You, I Can’t Explain, My Generation. Yeah, they don’t measure up to the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, yeah Queen. Man, British bands kick ass.

But still he persisted.

My folks would sooner self-immolate than let their kids pay for their meal. They take any offer as a grave insult.

Having worked with these kind of people, it is more often than not about “right and justice” but “access and celebrity.”

My first day of J-school (I know, I know. I was young. I needed... to spend?... the money...) some doofus sits next to me and goes “One of these days I’m going to be sitting at the White House Press…

Yeah this. I think that All the President’s Men really fucked up a couple of generations of American journalists into thinking that they’re crusaders for right and justice, when they can’t even get a sniff of people who are doing actually dangerous work in journalism.