The promise; not the fulfillment (although by “diverse” I did not necessarily mean what you mean here).

Asking “why have any discourse on cultural products if the cultural product doesn’t cross some arbitrary threshold of what I describe to be harmful” is, in fact, asking “why have cultural criticism.” So thanks, but no thanks.

“Why have cultural criticism” is not really a discussion I’m interested in. 

It’s possible, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised, but her parents have said unambiguously in interviews that they always intended that she would play for Japan. And since she didn’t play juniors, which would be the obvious way to make her more attractive to the USTA, I’m inclined to think it was at least their intent…

A lot of players live and train in the U.S., but represent other countries (think Sharapova, who hasn’t lived in Russia since, what? Since she was a tween?). Osaka’s family always intended her to play for her birth country.

I think the point is (beyond, yes, that Netflix makes the job of TV critic harder) that 1) part of the promise of Netflix was increasing the accessibility of non-focus-grouped, diverse, risky content, rather than just the existing TV model of endless variations on the same tame themes; they could theoretically do…

Between lines and bed, there’s usually a couple hours of hyperactivity, twitchiness, and non-stop talking.

Do not make the Tony Gwynn mistake.

it’s the same thing except someone decided that a whole lot of garlic matters

I would very much like to see someone make a caesar salad without making mayonnaise.

Stephens didn’t take the high road.

I don’t understand why we have to pretend that Stephens deserves a rational and considered response. I don’t know why we should act as though anything he says is deserving of real consideration, or that we should engage with or react to him in any way other than revulsion. I don’t know why we should think some…

Nicely done.

Agreed. If the referees called the rules as aggressively as they legitimately could by the letter of the rules, there would be a foul call on almost every play. Harden *is* good at drawing fouls, but he’s also incredibly good at faking fouls, and at committing offensive fouls, travels, double-dribbles, and carries…

I think the legitimate decision should be: “do I enter the draft knowing I may go to the D [G] -league, or do I go to Australia or Turkey or Italy or France or somewhere else that will pay me to play professionally commensurate to my worth before I enter the draft.” College shouldn’t be anywhere in this equation.

First I saw it too, and I thought the same. If this is his new home, I’m glad of it.

We can be curious.

I’m replying to you pontificating endlessly on a meaningless hypothetical and twisting yourself into knots about what should happen to the guardian and the school, when the whole point of the article was that De Souza shouldn’t be punished, and your issue is apparently “the article was too easy on Kansas/De Souza’s…

Did you not read, uh, the very first paragraph of the article?

The only one who said De Souza should be punished is you, with your advocacy that “he should have to go elsewhere”— which, given the disruption that obviously entails, even were the NCAA to allow it (at present, fyi, they are not), is a punishment. No one else said that the key point is anything other than that the…