While ideology is taken into account with appellate and Supreme Court judges, it is much less of an issue for district court judges such as Doty.

And when you consider that many victims choose not to go to the police at all, the ratio of people who have actually experienced sexual assault to people who have falsely claimed to have experienced sexual assault gets—one presumes—even larger.

The organization that surreptitiously recorded the videos in question has made the full versions available on their website, with transcripts as well, here.

Well, they went from Park to World, so . . .

Sorry, Seattle.

Nashville has a better hockey team than they do a football team.

You cannot possibly be this obtuse (O, who am I kidding—intentional obtuseness seems to be a job requirement for Gawker properties).

And so, amid accusations that Gawker, under Tommy’s leadership, has acted callously toward a family, I remember what he has done for mine, and my heart breaks.

can score like no one’s business

The 33-year old who costs less than the insane asking price of the 23-year and has actually hit 60 points in his career, but would probably fetch less in a trade because every GM in the league seems to have lost their minds?

If Saad was going to insist on Sharp money without having ever put up Sharp numbers, it kind of makes sense to move him.

Well, for the Caps, it kind of makes sense since the practice facility is in Ballston, but some of the younger guys still will live downtown (I remember Mike Green and Brooks Laich used to be next door neighbors in Chinatown when they were young, and I know Wilson, Burakovsky, and Latta are roommates now though unsure…

This is secondhand, but from everything I’ve heard Ovechkin during his early years would just cruise around GW looking for parties, stop by for 10 minutes to pick up groupies, and then leave.

Barry is completely talking out of his ass here—particularly in his attempt to tie the process to the NFL’s antitrust exemption, which has very, very little to do with how labor law (the actual relevant body of law) applies to the league beyond altering certain leverage points in CBA negotiations.

I agree the observation is a bit of a non sequitur, because had this been in court from the get-go Brady’s phone records would have been discoverable material; moreover, under spoliation doctrine, if Brady did somehow intentionally keep such discoverable material out of the record, that would lead to an inference the…

Yea but the Brazilians outplayed them for the first 60 and really the Aussies play a boring style anyway so let’s just call that one a draw.

Actually, if we limit the inquiry strictly to mass shooting events, they still happen in other countries at a comparable rate to the U.S. on a per capita basis—we’re just so much more populous that the raw numbers seem staggering by comparison.

FUCK.

Writing well is also fun, but I don’t see you criticizing Ms. Moskovitz for burying that argument in between mountains of shade about the unfairness of a woman being run out of town for domestic violence when we’ve always told men they don’t have to be role models regardless of how good or bad their conduct is (for…

Played a 6-seed (Minnesota), but yea, that was a goddamned miracle run.