That’s an impressive Juliet related deep cut.

If a troll believes what he is saying is he a troll?

This is correct, but I think the average Deadspin reader is uninterested in equity accounting and more interested in pedantically chirping at the NFL. Hard to blame the writer for appealing to that instinct.

I have nothing to add on Le Pen. She seems like the worst.

Setting aside the false dichotomies made in both of these arguments (yours (wanting good candidates vs. ignoring historical context) and the one above (wanting good candidates vs. wanting diversity)) I think the question is whether you think adding diversity in hiring practices offsets any costs of not hiring the best…

Sure, there are definitely examples going the other way, and I don’t have the data to let me argue one way or another, but the article referenced suggests that the bias is in favor of increasing height.

Hey man, from the WSJ article you cited:

I’m from Lexington, despise Tennessee and couldn’t care less about Indiana. I think the origin of the Indiana thing is basketball related, but given that they have been largely mediocre (barring 2011-13) since the early ‘90s, it’s hard for me to care much about Indiana. In the limited time I’ve spent in Indiana, it…

This is amazing.

I’m an immigrant, and my parents are immigrants, and I’m definitely not arguing immigrants are the problem. The point that I’m trying to make is that the reality is independent of individual’s perception. I think you’re making the same point.

Did you stop reading after paragraph 1? I’m not asking him to take a view on immigration, I’m asking a tangential question about reconciling his view to our current political climate.

I’m not trying to suggest that this hypothetical Trump voter is correct; I’m trying to say that both parties in this hypothetical consider themselves correct and their own issues most important. Democracy gives credit to all opinions that bother to vote, regardless of validity.

To preface: I did not vote for Trump, do not like him, am a minority more concerned about my safety than a year ago and see no problem with you voicing your opinions on this website. I appreciate that you’re sharing how this problem might affect someone like your brother, which I definitely didn’t appreciate.

I’ve spent some time trying to put myself in Steve’s place from that DM, but I’m genuinely struggling to understand it. Is he saying it’s inconsistent to have a problem with how someone views illegal immigration but getting a scholarship to UVA is implicitly supporting Thomas Jefferson’s slave ownership? My office…

Yeah, Brady never makes cheesy commercials.

I know that dumping on owners for reaping too much money is fashionable, but these aren’t astronomical returns. The Marlins have grown in value at at 17% a year, give or take, which is impressive, but not insane. Given that he’s taking single asset risk, that’s a good, but not great, investment. (I’m not accounting…

In what world did Duke lacrosse get protected?

It’s not clear to me why you would single out Silver at all. As pointed out above, he was least wrong, and more importantly, the absolute percentages showed Trump winning with roughly 1/4 chances. It seems disingenuous at best to argue that he “totally fail[ed].” For comparison, that’s like a 7 point underdog winning…

The NFL’s first law of Newton’s Motion: When one body exerts a force on Cam’s head, the head simultaneously exerts a greater force on the first body.

Is there a source for those transcripts that’s still available? I found a book on Amazon that appears to be out of print.