Absolutely. Didn’t mean to undermine that point. 

You give McQuery a lot of credit here. It’s just as likely he was a selfish coward or a terrible person who valued his own interests more than that of a victim of sexual abuse. I’m glad he ultimately told the truth, but he clearly failed in the moment. 

And beyond your joke, it’s also probable that the campus would seem deserted if people were inside those arenas and not walking around when McQueary stepped outside.

Add to that McQueary was legitimately afraid of not only losing his job but also his entire career. If he was blackballed by Penn State, may as well go get that teaching certificate. Telling Paterno was a huge risk on his part. Completely agree that Gladwell is the lowest form of life for rehashing a settled matter,…

He wonders why McQueary remembers the campus as being deserted on the night he says he witnessed the assault (Feb. 9, 2001), even though there was a hockey game and a Barenaked Ladies concert on campus that night.

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.

What on earth makes these folks feel such unrelenting loyalty to someone that they didn’t really know ? I mean, as a kid I worshiped Michael Jackson, Lawrence Taylor and numerous other celebrities but I wouldn’t waste a second defending their actions because their actions are indefensible. And feeling the need to…

There’s a very simple reason why McQueary didn’t go to the cops right away: sometimes when we see things that go against our pre-existing beliefs, our brains work their asses off to come up with reasoning. McQueary respected Sandusky as a football coach and seeing him rape a child was outside of what he expected. So…

Randy Moss.

Personally, as a person that is currently old, i don’t think Pete Davidson is an idiot because college kids don’t know when to turn off their phones. I think Pete Davidson is an idiot because he acts like an idiot, all the time.

I hope that NFL players take note of the lack of empathy people have shown Andrew Luck during this entire process. Don’t feel guilty about hold-outs for more money. Get as much money as you can and get the hell out before it becomes a detriment to your health. 

He wasn’t careful at all, just as incendiary as the Right. It’s easier to state the Left is angry and violent when you have data points and not conspiracy theory.

I’m referring to this set of stories:

Eeexcept that he most likely killed his wife and got away with it, which - kinda puts a blemish on his reliability.

If you’re interested, here are my views on the movie. I wrote this before being convinced that the Lee scenes are as troublesome as I’m starting to feel the more we discuss the matter.

I think it’s just the having him as a one dimensional badass who immediately gets his comeuppance by a generic white guy with relative ease. The only reason we even see Bruce Lee is to make Cliff Booth look cool. Steve McQueen gets to make an appearance, but he doesn’t start drag racing anybody in a random dick…

Have you tried Ballads? It was my first John Coltrane album as a 5th grader and I have only grown to love it more over the years. (I’m in my 40s.)

Have I got a movie for you!

The problem is they never had any ideas about reducing the cost or speed of tunnel boring except to just use narrower tunnels, to ignore the cost of any externalities like soil variation, and to exclude from the final cost any amenities or features that were not strictly tunneling (stations, signage, egress,…

Is this really the world we want to live in, where we scour through people’s social media posts to find something questionable they said TWO DAYS AGO to destroy their careers?  Honestly, who even cares what a school superintendent said when he was only 53 years and 263 days old?  How do you know he isn’t a completely…