Monkeys will type out "King Lear" before we see another comment suggesting that Kate Upton and Lena Dunham face similar social challenges due to their looks.

Why do a bunch of bloggers working in Denton's virtual sweatshop hate an average-looking Oberlin grad who's making $5 million a year?

Bingo. If Tracie ever has an economically valid insight, it'll be her first.

"One kid for Stanford" sure sounds apocryphal to me... Samohi and PV area coulda filled a charter w/kids bound for Palo Alto — at least once upon a time. Could be a totally different situation now.

Yeah, my LA colleagues were doing their best to take relative strength of applicant pools into account, I think. (Presumably New Haven's is at least a few ticks stronger?)

Yeah, 3.8 and mid-1200s in '89 is awful sporty... I'd have thought that was a lock for UCLA then. Sorry they missed out on ya.

The 93% fig is eye-catching, but that's weighted for class content. You get a full point for taking AP, honors, IB, etc... that's pretty huge. I was referencing the non-weighted GPAs, which better capture the traditional metrics used. (One could also deflate SAT scores to take account of the generous re-norming…

No pro soccer league in the US has ever made money over any extended period... it's likely a little premature to worry about a college level soccer program being susceptible to market pressures.

"regular kids need a 4.5 and perfect SATs to get into UCLA.."

"progressive righteousness makes excellent clickbait... aggregators hop[e] to capitalize.."

Good point. The biggest question is what share the squads get of appearance-fee money (for charity gigs etc). That runs to $500K-plus — if the cheerleaders don't see a substantial share of that, they're getting jobbed.

Yup, was aware of the koala's source. My point was that these things aren't exactly "Meet the Press"... and that it seems a little odd to watch "nearly every match" and be unaware of (or omit) the fluffy context of Bouchard's earlier interviews.

OK. Did you also see Bouchard bring a stuffed animal to one interview at Aus Open, and answer a question via a puppet in another?

Alternate headline (for same data): "Average woman spends 112 days of her life dieting... and 40+ years having sex"

You're missing the big picture here.

"Gym-addicted space empress" is just superb. Lovely work!

I don't find end-stage alcoholism at all funny either... but I'll still drink "Delirium Tremens" whenever it's available.

Could we please get back to the critical issue in Jez's sex coverage: shaming of anyone who'd ever consider acquiring a Fleshlight (or similar toy)?

It's an interesting exercise... trying to sort out power 'n privilege here. Who's got the edge initially? The freelance journo who watches Youtube at midnight looking for story ideas... or the MIT-educated Vanderbilt who works on top-secret stuff and is on a first name basis w/generals and US VPs? (And who has a…

It's almost as though... he's taking notes from a number of Jez authors. Eerie stuff.