Haha. The girl "tweeting about Muslims" appears to volunteer her time raising awareness about sexual assault in high schools, actually. Better still, the club actually started at Corona Del Mar.

I think the notion is that injustice is relative, and that it's somewhat worse to be kidnapped from your home and sold into bride-slavery for $12... than to be taken to a pricey dinner in Laguna Beach by a classmate.

What does the official Scouting Combine for Prom Draft look like, I wonder?

"You touch a doorknob, and you don't want to get it inside your body." - Hickey

Wow. "In loco parentis" refers to the doctrine used by major universities up through the Sixties, when the courts rolled it back in favor of enhance d student rights. It's what enabled parietals and other heavy-handed forms of institutional control over student social life. I doubt one student in a 100 would opt…

"it seems to be a very visible way to be able to self-segregate yourself into an "elite" group of people"

Agree. The old-line East Coast college administrations had their flaws, to be sure... but they at least saw themselves as trustees of an educational tradition stretching back nearly a millennium. Current administrations, by contrast, often behave like campus protesters from the '68 era. Funny (and a bit sad) to see…

They've got leverage to the extent cheerleading appears to be extremely profitable (particularly in ROI% terms) for most teams.

Fighting is the first step w/the NFL, always. We're talking about a league that's entirely content to let some ex-Hall of Famers live in chronic pain (and poverty) because they cut off health-care benefits after five years... among a litany of other gross decisions.

The Great 2014 NFL Cheerleader Revolt is awesome in every way. And for every Econ 101 stud who wants to argue, "But soooo many other girls are willing (and able) to do it at the prevailing wage," that argument pretty much holds true for replacement-level player talent too. (Hence the phrase "Next man up!" when an…

Darned enjoyable piece... especially the attempt to derive the underlying rules of GOOP-iness (which actually looked pretty spot-on).

The name you're looking for is Jeff Fager, who replaced Don Hewitt at "60 Minutes." Fager heavily championed both Logan and a rah-rah, commercially oriented approach to the news division.

That'd be "straw person," surely?

Mass kidnappings and human trafficking in Africa, eh? Appalling... but let's do spare a thought for Lorde and her "extreme fear" for safety whilst being photographed in airports.

"She's saying wonderful things about him, so she's clearly defending him..."

You're flat-out wrong, I'm afraid. If you'd read the "Guardian" piece in full, you'd know that the last thing she says about Allen is "I believe my friend."

"EXCEPT (conjuction): used before a statement that forms an exception to the one just made." - OED

Haha. Not a word about Julie Krone? Hall of Fame jockey? Female Athlete of the Year? Doesn't ring a bell?

Also anthropologically fascinating is that "not-U" (to use the old Mitford shorthand) serves as a fairly crushing putdown among the commentariat. It's a little odd to see card-carrying SJWs in such thrall to elite socio-cultural preferences.

OK, I'll bite. The implied reference to dick size was racist, right? Not the notion that muscle-fibre composition is a factor in sporting performance, etc etc?