Look, the NCAA's resources are limited. If they're going to stop the really terrible things like players making money from autographs or unionized football programs, they can't get wrapped around the axle over every little rape.

And to think some people believe that the record industry's collapse is a bad thing.

Cousins threw four picks and lost a fumble in his game against the Giants, where they only sacked him twice and hit him four times. I can't explain why the Bucs, with the 29th-ranked pass defense in the NFL, got to Griffin so many more times than the Giants did with Cousins. All I'm saying is that Griffin's problems…

If your quarterback is sacked 6 times, hit 11 times and otherwise hurried goddamn near every time he takes a snap, he's probably not going to have a very good game. Part of that may be that his offensive line despises him, but the outcome is still not exclusively his fault.

What you're asking for, in this increasingly Dickensian world of service-economy labor, is that everybody with the money and say-so accept less of both for the benefit of those who currently have neither.

Voter turnout in Sweden and Germany, models for countries with strong pro-family policies and world-leading…

I really hope it works to its potential, but Lockheed Martin is also the same company that promised to build 750 F-22s starting in 1994 for $26B, and ended up delivering 187 for $62B. Never trust an aerospace contractor further than you can withhold payment for delivery.

The first shirt in my squadron 15 years ago began life as a maintainer on B-1s at Ellsworth, where the unofficial nickname for the airplane was the "HAWK." It stood for "Holiday And Weekend Killer." Lighten up, Francis.

Not nearly enough "fuck off" to suit me. You hire Malcolm Tucker to be the Doctor, for God's sake, let the Doctor be Malcolm Tucker.

Consider me disappointed. If you hire Malcolm Tucker to be your Doctor, for God's sake, let your Doctor be Malcolm Tucker.

We got to see the face of the Others' leader, not to mention the transformation of a living being into an Other. Given the near-total lack of information in the books about the Others and where they come from, this was a good trade in my opinion.

To be fair (and pardon the mansplaining but I'm super-nerdy about this), neither Britain nor the United States officially admitted to the existence of their product (ULTRA) until the mid-1970s. The United States' cryptography arms that broke Japanese ciphers were somewhat more sexually egalitarian as organizations,…

Jack, the Russians don't take a dump without a Sarlacc.

We are a country of 317 million people. At the end of 2011 and after 8 years of occupying two foreign countries which want(ed) us the fuck out of there, we had 1.5 million under arms. We only replace about 10% of that in any given year, so 100,000-150,000 viable men and women in the proper age group out of 450,000…

For what it's worth, most states have recognized the chilling effect of open inquiries into a complainant's past sexual activity and have passed what are known as "rape shield" statutes, limiting a defendant's ability to introduce evidence of irrelevant sexual behavior (i.e., with someone other than the defendant, on…

They aren't "the script." They're the source material.

No reason to snap? How about being displaced as Hand after saving the city on his father's orders? Or being told that he isn't good enough to inherit his father's title and that in fact his father wished him dead on the day of his birth? Or being humiliated at his trial where Tyrion tells the assembled crowd that…

My feelings: (a) Tyrion has more than enough reason to kill his father without introducing the complication of an unseen character whom we have not mentioned since the first season; (b) Shae was rightly terrified to wake up and find Tyrion standing next to her bed; (c) brevity is everything when you have 3600 seconds…

That is wonderful.

Littlefinger is the Lord Paramount of the Riverlands and Lord Protector of the Vale at the end of Feast for Crows. If Sansa marries the heir to the Vale, and that heir were to meet an untimely end before their marriage produced issue, then Littlefinger marrying Sansa would give Petyr titular control over the Vale and…

Tyrion's canary trap in season 2 was meant only to determine which of the other members of the Small Council were Cersei's. Trusting Varys or Littlefinger wasn't the point of the exercise; merely understanding whether they were predisposed to his sister over him.

I also can't blame him for antagonizing Joffrey or…