See, the way you put it conveys the point properly and professionally without seeming to, I don’t know, minimize the crime itself. Something is just off with her, combine it with her truly bizarre testimonial on the link she provides, and she come across as Icky.

You’d think they’d be even more careful here. The company already has a questionable past in this subject, considering it’s founder was kind of a Nazi.

She bolded it, not me.

There is I think. It reads to me that not only is she promising an excellent defense, but some sort of absolution as well. Icky is the right word. Like I said, she has the right, but I certainly wouldn’t want to sit down and have lunch with her either.

Added Emmert, “We are monitoring the situation closely, and I can assure you that if we hear of one of the female victims involved receiving any sort of financial settlement via a civil trial, we are prepared to rule then ineligible for receiving impermissible benefits.”

Yes, every defendant, even Nasser have a right to a lawyer, but man is Shannon Smith tough to like. She’s actually proud of being a sex offender lawyer. An excerpt from her web site advertising her services:

While he didn’t break any bones, the doctors who examined him said it’s impossible to determine if he suffered any brain damage or not.

“Well I have to admit, despite all that has happened, on a personal level, I got along great with the guy.”

This is Penn St. all over again, everyone passing the buck, no one held accountable. For decades. This reflects on the entire institution. How can you say that isn’t on the President?

Then maybe, just maybe he ought to have made the effort to familiarize himself with the issue before opening his yap. You did notice how he had no problem using his considerable public platform to give Pres. Simon his total support despite, as you put it, having no idea the magnitude of the issue.

Which, before it devolved as it always does into a debate on The Process, was my original point. Miami and Pittsburgh are doing it for one reason. $$$. Hey Jeets!

The sheer fucking gall of these assholes, MSU too. You allowed this to happen. How in the fuck in any way do you think you then have the right to be the one to fix it? You don’t own USA Gymnastics, you aren’t even an important part of the sport you entitled fucks. There is only one honorable option. Quit! Today! Yet…

Three board members resign, who will then be replaced by the remaing board members who don’t have the same sense of shame of those who resigned.

There’s rebuilding, even bottoming out, then there’s doing so and then spending three more seasons after that deliberately staying horrible, diminishing the value of your young assets if only to acquire more of them. Particularly in a league with short contracts. Leaving them where? At .500, about to get very…

I’m just not a big fan of making a government shutdown a legislative tool. I despised the GOP for blackmailing Obama with it over and over, so I didn’t like it here.

You are buying into this ludicrous myth that being “good” in and of itself is an impediment to becoming “great.” It’s not. In fact it’s a prerequisite.

As a starting point, yes.

This is absurd. Poor turnout lost the election, not protest votes. The margin between the two wasn’t even remotely close.

Eh, you have to govern with the votes you’ve got, and we the voters didn’t give the Dems many. Shutting down the government for a long period in an attempt to achieve a policy goal that was remote at best is a poor choice, as painful as that sounds. It also is poor politics.

Tom Petty: Heartbreaker for sure.