The key to a good apology all ties back to this starting point — you have to actually be sorry for what you did. If you’re lacking that element, you’re already wasting everyone’s time.

There are mistakes, and then there’s committing a series of mistakes that illuminate a deep character flaw. Jeff Arnold committed a series of grave mistakes in the course of writing that piece. It takes more than an apology to make up for that, it requires a wholesale change in one’s outlook and entirely new…

For many, football is a religion. You do not question your religious idols.

Every writer needs a good editor to save their ass now and then. But Jeff Arnold does not need an editor, because he needs to not be a writer anymore.

Even great writers have blind spots and are capable of turning in utter dreck now and then (BTW, Jeff Arnold is not even a good writer. He is crap). It’s up to editors to show good judgement and save writers from themselves. So while Arnold deserves a great deal of blame here, yes, the editors deserve even more.…

I made a dumb comment on a Jezebel piece a week ago and I put more effort into my apologies than Arnold did.

This is why the debacle of the Patrick Kane investigation is so infuriating. We’ll never know who lied. Either Kane needs to be in jail, or he needs to be fully exonerated. But because the investigators botched it, neither can happen.

in those sunglasses?

Cruz: I am the most Bible. I am more Bible than anyone.

“Greedy, fraudulent, dishonest, arrogant” is what he should’ve gone for.

Yeah, I do worry that when push comes to shove I won’t be able to do it, either. That would be a stain on my soul even if I believed it was for the good of the country.

The state legislatures are really the key. In aggregate, the 50 legislatures have a massive amount of power, particularly through their duty to draw congressional district boundaries. The GOP figured this out and they take state-level politics very seriously. For some reason the Democratic party has not been able to…

These assholes don’t see women as a different species. They see women as a lesser species. Also minorities, anyone who is LGBT, and anyone who is friendly to any of those constituencies.

I share your concern. This crop is giving all the latent racists/misogynists/homophobes/etc. permission to be open about how they feel, and now that they’ve found “their people” (all the other hate-based constituencies that they always believed existed) they’re eager to use that newfound solidarity to change the…

Kasich is a terrible person and would be a terrible president. Yet I’m suggesting that we left-leaning folks should hold our noses, pull GOP ballots in the primaries, and vote for Cruz, Rubio or Kasich in order to keep Trump from the nomination. The other three can’t win in November, but Trump could. The time to stop…

This was the first episode of this show that could’ve passed as a script for Z Nation with just a few tweaks. TWD has always had moments of ridiculousness (example, last week with the rocket launcher) but this is the first time I can recall where they really embraced it. In previous instances they’ve always tried to…

“Siri, where do I go to get a human kidney?”

FAKE! No way is Kristaps Porzingis a real name.

The article concedes that point:

There are a lot of people on this planet who just suck, and anywhere there’s a democracy, it’s inevitable that some of the people who suck are going to get some degree of power. Seems like they crave it. Not even Canada is immune.