As I understand it, it kind of literally is. LE is very insular, and when you’re depending on your fellow officers to have your back, anything that could alienate you or set you out as not first loyal to the badge can be seen as literally life threatening.

Even better, tweet about how the author of The Hike, now in bookstores everywhere, is coming to kill you. He’ll retweet you, and even if he then kills you, he’ll have incriminated himself.

It’s the exact opposite of that. Inasmuch as there’s a debate to be had, let’s have the debate. What isn’t useful is sidestepping the actual issue at hand to discuss the act of protest instead of the substance of the protest. That is what 99% of the discussion about Kaepernick has been:

I'll take my chances with the one that explodes.

After the Anthem (does it count as disrespecting the troops if the rendition of the anthem you're not standing for is horseshit?), a sideline reporter was saying that several fans were screaming at Kaep DURING THE ANTHEM for not standing, proving that the only force more powerful than the American military is…

And when real news organizations cross the line or otherwise fuck up, they print retractions and take a step back to apologize. They don’t pat themselves on the back for being brave and rebelliousand, more to the point, dispute that they did anything wrong in the first place.

And still not so much as an acknowledgement from ESPN that the most popular fantasy platform in sports picked 20 minutes into the first Sunday of the season to shit the bed.

They might have called the grounding because they'd have called the first helmet to helmet hit and that shit would've stopped immediately.

As a Cam fan, the hits were disgusting to watch, but not terribly shocking. It could be completely coincidental, but it seems like penalties for hits on Cam are a lot more rare than flags for similar hits on other elite quarterbacks in the league.

I just watched The Nice Guys last night. It’s solid. I thought it’d be a little funnier than it was, but what it lacked in jokes it made up for with quality boobs.

The only videogame poker that matters is Red Dead Redemption. If you bought that game for nothing but the poker minigame, it'd be money well spent.

I think regardless of how you feel about cops, or unions for that matter, we can all agree that police unions are just the fucking worst.

Goddamn. God. Damn.

A little rape is still permissible in the NFL. You can't go nuts like you can in college, but a little bathroom sexual assault isn't going to hurt your career.

Fortunately for Drew, JJ will get injured halfway through.

I’m torn on Eva. She’s very bad in the ring, obviously, but the gimmick is so great right now. I kind of think the real women’s revolution will be a division made up of all types of women’s wrestling. If I can only choose one, it’ll be quality wrestling 100 times out of 100, but there probably should be a place for…

That didn’t risk permanent injury, which was your original complaint. I don’t care what she does outside the ring. It’s not relevant to the discussion of her relative worth as a wrestler in relation to the rest of the division, which was Votey’s complaint.

Joe's not superhuman, but he seems most likely to hold his own in a fight against Brock. At this point, that's what a Brock Lesnar match is. Joe can give as good as he can take in actual wrestling, and when the time comes to throw hands, he should be able to hold his own.

It was such a stupid booking decision in the first place. Lesnar, at best, is a stiff worker; at worst, he’s actively dangerous. I don’t know why you pair a stiff worker whose entire offense is throwing guys backwards onto their shoulders with someone fresh off of shoulder surgery.

It'd probably help if she'd stop jumping head-first into the ground.