This won’t be popular, but I’m not a fan of these kind of things. They are contrived and sentimental and condescending. I’m all for inspirational stories where people overcome disabilities or setbacks with hard work and compete legitimately. The one legged wrestler, for example - everyone against whom he competed went…

It’s like he watched The Post but somehow thought Tom Hanks was the bad guy.

That’s easy:

No shit you dumb motherfucker. Try looking up the word paradoxically next time.

This might be the worst take I have ever seen.

This is just moronic.

Agree. I think it’s less collusion to get salaries down and more that teams are just getting smarter. Teams seem to know now that a single high-priced player on a baseball team most often isn’t going to move the needle as much as having a bunch of lottery-ticket-type prospects. The latter is more likely to lead to a…

No way the players get a floor without a much harder cap than the luxury tax replaces.

This has been fascinating to me for quite some time. A huge chunk of Americans—it might well be the majority—do not see prison as rehabilitative. They have no interest in redemption, or change, or personal improvement. They view the people coming out of prison as no better than they were when they went in, no matter…

Our society loves to punish. Loves it. Punishment solves every problem. Punishment never fails, it can only be failed. Recidivism? Jail wasn’t punishing enough! Delinquency? These kids have been pampered, they should have been punished. Welfare? Obviously just lazy, poverty isn’t harsh enough, otherwise they’d work.

I realize that few people start out their lives aiming to become a villain, it happens by degrees. You go to law school thinking you’ll be the next Atticus Finch defending the defenseless. You face the reality that you have to work for a big law firm to pay your bills. You wind up representing people who can pay…

You’ve been told and I assume that’s good enough for consent

To claim that this makes sense because the mere idea of defense is too important is to claim that a poor defender who actively hurt his team in the field is inherently more valuable than any equivalent player who helped his team by not having the chance to doing so.

I’ll chip in. I want this scumbucket to live a long and miserable existence. No fresh air. Four walls, a bed, a blanket, a pillow, toilet, and sink. 15 minutes to shower every day. Maybe some books. A TV and four movies to cycle through. That, and a loop of EVERY victim impact statement playing 24/7 in his cell.

god that’s terrifying. just a fucking murder tube with tremendous multi-directional muscle capability. also it really, really sucks that invasive species are such a big deal down there.

I see what’s happening. You don’t understand how the internet works and you are afraid to say anything. That’s cool. We all start somewhere.

“I have high expectations and high standards and I am passionate about coaching our gymnasts to realize their full potential.”

Oh, so when the article mentioned that several of Nassar’s victims also cited Geddert’s abusive behavior that meant what exactly to you?

An adult man wearing THAT necklace is an abusive asshole? No wayyyy...

Even greater than those of a movie cop being gunned down two days before retirement.