“Inability to fulfill debt obligations as they come due” is pretty much the legal definition of “insolvent.”

Such a cynical argument. These brave football players staked out a very non-traditional pro-freedom, pro-justice position. I’m sure somebody, somewhere possibly opposes this; I mean, it’s at least theoretically possible, anyway. So I’m glad somebody said it. Or represented it, or whatever.

Maybe, but “Virtue Signalling” typically occurs in spaces where making whatever statement or taking whatever action you take has no real risk.

All I know is I’ve never paid this much attention to football before. Thank you, Colin, and whatever team you play for.

A bye would apply in a complete single- or double-elimination tournament, assuming the number of competitors is not a power of 2. This would make perfect sense, if the whole tournament was set up that way! They aren’t. They start with a group-stage double-elimination model, or “pools.” The tournament only becomes a…

When I stand for the anthem I start mentally checking off the various ballpark foods I want to eat that day.

Awwww, you're so full of shit.

Freedoms that make white people uncomfortable aren’t real freedoms. Study it out.

Yea I kinda doubt you are “foremost a civil rights activist” if you're trying to downplay the discrimination LGBT folk have dealt with in this country.

What in the world does “I am a foremost civil rights activist” mean?

We also have the freedom to kneel if we want to when we hear the anthem. Or turn our backs. Or dance a jig. Those people died for her freedom to do that too.

So you want professional sports players to take flags onto the field and burn them during the anthem?

The first thing civil rights activists don't do is compare atrocities among the oppressed.

It’s funny when I see women in athletic wear without a sweat walking to Jamba Juice while smoking cigarettes.

Study after study after study has shown that the aggressive policing tactics used by the NYPD under Giuliani did not reduce violent crime relative to the decreases that occurred in other cities not using these methods. At all. The entire decline can be chalked up to demographic changes. (Being an economist by training…

Or maybe they really just don’t appreciate privileged white Americans falsely accusing its native citizens of crimes because of course the world will think the brown natives are only capable of this.

I love that people are able to look at theUS and then make posts like this with a straight face. People clutching their pearls over this were never going to go to Rio in the first place.

I never understand this argument. Superheroes with magic powers that include flying, layers shooting from the eyes, gamma radiation that doesn’t kill you, turning into any or beast that has ever walked the Earth, controlling weather, etc.=totally believable and accepted.

Are you just willfully ignorant, or what? People of color fought in both World Wars. In WWI, Germans even went so far as to dump pamphlets on black infantries to try to persuade them to abandon the American side because Americans were racist and treated black people poorly. So the Germans promised that black people…