The alternative is you turning over your wealth to someone who needs it more than you do, for the greater good of all!

Management? Ugh. Capitalism?!? Double Ugh.

I'm an optimist!

I'm most looking forward to the "honeymoon effect" that will secure a positive reaction to the returning officials by grateful fans for all but the final 7 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 55 minutes of the eight-year deal.

This was an amazing column about a terrific movie. The performances, as you said, are all incredible. My only quibble with the film (and it's a small one) is that the dialogue occasionally feels like it was intended to be read on a page and not said by a real person (especially Roma's seduction).

I sort of got the same impression.

Except for the part where this shit-show hasn't done anything to disrupt that 10 billion dollar bottom line. Fans are eating this stuff up in record numbers, and the NFL is all anyone's talking about in the final days of the MLB pennant races (I mean even more than usual). The union is being crushed by an infinitely…

Deadspin's (outstanding) weekly feature on replacement ref errors may have to be a two-parter this week. At least.

He almost didn't buy the Pirates?

I admit it: I miss that saxophone.

As much as I loathe both of these guys (and I'm a Skins fan), Barry is right, and so are Snyder and Jones. The NFL set up an ex post facto punishment based on a failure to collude. I don't think the league has much of a leg to stand on. Or, let me put it this way - the bounty suspensions being overturned surprised…

Mine, too. It's definitely not a work, as we now know. Thankfully, Lawler is in stable condition at last report. My guess would be a stroke.

Really scary stuff. Part of me still holds out hope that this is a "work," but it sure doesn't look like it.

Terrible. Hoping for the best for Devon.

I was agreeing with Kluwe! Was that not clear?

A conservative acquaintance of mine made the argument that Mr. Kluwe's statement is actually more "hateful" than Dan Cathy's, because it includes lots of pejoratives, profanity, and "juvenile insults."

Seriously - I'm as lefty as they come, but this is a stretch to make someone DS doesn't particularly care for look bad.

I agree that my friends also think CFA is a place for assholes, but my friends are also all practically socialists who are very liberal on cultural and social issues. I wouldn't consider my friends to be representative of Amurrica. However, among all the people I've heard opine (enemies and acquaintances alike), the…

"It's impossible to separate Chick-Fil-A from what it represents to most people: at minimum, the desire to withhold civil rights from gay people..."

Right, I understand the canon, but what I mean is that, in Peace Walker, Big Boss is a hardened mercenary. Certainly not the Bond-style "good guy" we saw in MGS3, but also still working to prevent all-out war. And still closer to "good" than Zero had become. He had also begun to come around on (or at least be more…