Corruption is within America’s DNA, so, no, the Boomers aren’t the worst. Boss Tweed would take the title. But the Boomers are both more-efficient and incredibly self-righteous in their corruption. Which, if not for my mother and my in-laws being Boomers, makes me hope they all die off soon.

No they weren’t. They specifically claimed that teammates thought that he was “aloof”, accused him of not stepping up and being a leader, and said he seemed to have no fire in his belly. Nothing they said referred to his physical shape. It all had to do with Kaepernick not fitting their mode of what a quarterback is…

Also helps that the NBA’s personalities are actually personalities. Save for the Bennett Brothers, Sherman, Cam, and Josh Norman, the rest of the NFL is dull, white-bread (despite being mostly black) and false in its moral superiority schtick.

I’m still a football fan. But honestly, the overload of sports (thanks to cable and sports talk radio), and the reality that the NFL is just a moral cesspool (including my Redskins, arghh, can’t Snyder change the name already) has made me less-interested in watching any football other than my team and the marquee…

NFL will never kill Thursday Night Football because it is the showcase for its cable network. Sure, there’s plenty of other great shows on it, including A Football Life, Undrafted, and The Timeline. But the NFL figures no one wants to just watch that stuff. So, TNF.

But you can’t always predict that. The Giants four years ago, for example, shouldn’t have even won its division. The Patriots in 2001 started off with a crap record before Drew Bledsoe got hurt and Tom Brady made history.

Simms, Deion, and Bill Cowher are all full of horse manure. Last night, the latter two were complaining that Kaepernick wasn’t demonstrating the proper passion for football needed to be a starter. Was ready to throw some shoes at the flatscreen, but remembered that I paid for it.

Exactly. The only difference between the conservative white feminist and the progressive white feminist is the parties for which they vote. Otherwise, both are often the same kind of intellectual, social and moral skid marks.

No problem on either. I can understand relatives. Some of them I feel nothing for myself.

Sadly, you got the order right:

Save for maybe Jessica, the Mitford sisters wouldn’t be notable at all if not for their social status. Typical rich white girl things.

They were dilettantes who were into anything that was vogue and, honestly, white. Even civil rights. There were numerous “good liberal” white people who thought “saving” black people was a thing, bolstered their identity and it became a fashion. [Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic hit the nail on the head.] Basically, the kind…

Except for Trump, the rest are all Christian universities. Proved my point. Thank you.

The assumptions aren’t assumptions. They are quite correct. For far too long, history, sociology and anthropology, fields dominated by white people from privileged backgrounds, focused on the foibles and actions of other similarly-privileged people. Only in the last two decades have those fields moved away from it.…

Hargitay supposedly earns $9 million a year plus back end. But keep in mind, Law & Order: SVU is a Dick Wolf show — and he is a cheap bastard. That’s why Christopher Meloni, Dann Florick, and Richard Belzer are no longer on the show.

More rich white women who did nothing but marry, shop, and gallivant. No thank you.

There’s not much “intriguing” about the Mitford sisters that isn’t also interesting about any other dysfunctional family with lots of children. They were cyphers who idolized whatever power ideology was in vogue; Fascism for Unity and Communism for Jessica. They were tragic hipsters who thought they were setting…

Christian universities and those who run them tend to be the worst kind of Christians. See Notre Dame, Georgetown (slavery), and now, Baylor. I write this as a Christian.

Except that in real life, if you don’t play offense, you end up playing defense. It is much-harder to play defense when you are an individual with little in the way of wealth, than it is for a major private university with endowments and numerous sources of cash flow. As someone who works in public relations, I always…

Gawker was sued into bankruptcy because of a vindictive billionaire with dollars to spare. Gawker didn’t help its cause by engaging in shoddy journalism practice (take the use of a male prostitute making up stories in one of its pieces); if it were more-responsible in past journalism, it would have likely won the suit…