Counterpoint: arguing about the stupid rules is like 90% of Hall of Fame coverage. Agonizing about how solemn baseball writers are about things that don’t matter is part of the tradition. If you take that away people will care even less about it than they do now.

They chose to protect him because the school’s reputation was more important to them than the well-being of young women (or for that matter their legal obligations). It’s not complicated, just very, very depressing.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know that.

Oh right, Lularoe not Lulu Lemon, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out.

If you wanted to boss around the rest of the world, maybe hang on to that empire next time.

It’s like this: Hollywood wants money, and revolves around personal contacts. Deadpool was something of a low-budget Ryan Reynolds passion project and it made a ton of money, and that’s all that really matters. If instead of an impression of Tim Curry in Clue Reynolds wanted to do an impression of Sergei Bondarchak in…

RESPECT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER!

The Academy Awards are awarded for art (or at least they used to be). Not politics.

A think a modern-day Duke Nukem could work as a simultaneous parody of modern “realistic” shooters like Call of Duty and the overly adoring treatment of special operations troops like Seal Team Six. Model him a little more on Jack Bauer and less on John Rambo. Too subtle?

I suspect there’s a large number of men out there who have made mistakes which they recognize and regret, and don’t speak out because if they draw attention to themselves in that way, they risk being publicly shamed for what they did, which often takes the form of getting them fired and possibly blacklisted (the…

America is a country of laws, and those laws apply equally to everybody. If you let one form of controversial treatment go to pre-clinical trials without enough advance research showing it to be safe and effective, you have to do the same for everyone - and that opens the doors to all kinds of dangerous treatment and…

That’s like blaming the cashiers for Walmart’s business practices.

Make no mistake - multilevel marketing *is* a pyramid scheme - it’s just that pyramid schemes aren’t intrinsically illegal. Even if it’s one of those things like, “Send a book to each person on this list, then add your name at the bottom and send this email to 20 people” is a pyramid scheme, although a benign one. It…

In general, I think you can, but the fact that you can is an indictment of our wider society and specifically its implicit rules regarding masculinity. A lot of comments might set off alarm bells only in retrospect, because lewd remarks about women’s bodies and sexuality fall under the rubric of “guy talk” or…

But no, let’s blame Netflix and safety rules for the declining interest in sports!

You don’t do wage increases when taxes fall anyway, because wages are nontaxed expenses.

Let’s be honest, though: if Sandusky were at MSU and Nassar at Penn State, would either have been treated any differently? Or, for that matter, any other big athletic university? What’s troubling about Baylor, MSU, and Penn State isn’t only that it happened there, it’s that it could just as easily have happened anywher…

Nah, the “independent” investigation was to stitch up the people who had already been implicated so no one would ask too many questions. Pennsylvania AG report and the MSAI lawsuit discovery revealed that many more people know about Sandusky and the cover-up had been going on far longer than anything the Freeh Report…

It would be great if someone could discover a new species of rose and name it after Ichiro.

I don’t know. It’s possible that they just really don’t give a shit about anything other than their own position and reputation and the “success” of the “program” they’ve been working on - and they know from history they can cover things up for a long time, possibly forever. If you acknowledge the accusations right…