Bingo.  They’re not going to cave until they’re reminded why they partnered with Marvel in the first place.

Wait, I thought he already located a 9-year old version of his helmet, and it was tested by the NFL and rejected? I’m so confused.

The problem is that as soon as you “charge them money”...they leave, and instead follow any of the myriad other sites that don’t. I *suspect* this would be true even if the vast majority of professional writers required people pay for their work - this was my initial (vaguely phrased) idea. But we’re not anywhere near…

Thing is, the AV Club is free *for me*.  And attempts to turn pageviews into revenue using the old advertiser model have turned into a rolling skirmish involving Adblock, “pivot to video”, and a lot of media concerns changing hands with distressing frequency.  People are indeed interested in curated, high-quality…

I had a friend who worked morning shift at a downtown grocery store that also sold liquor. If you’re employed as, say, a bartender, it’s just sort of understood that part of your job is watching folks gradually drink themselves to death in front of you. He was a little surprised to find that this was *also* part of…

Sure, “Couth” is impressive, but to be extra fancy you’ve got to find a way to work “Gruntled” into the conversation.

And it’s okay for kids to be ignorant, but it’s the responsibility of the adults around them to change that.

Remember the Argentina-England quarterfinal in the 1986 World Cup? Truly, I think the sport can never hope to reach the pinnacle it achieved in that game.

The problem is that in a world with Facebook (and more broadly, The Internet), any writer can near instantly reach an unlimited audience.  Given the unprecedented amount of *free* writing out there, what can you do to justify getting someone to actually *pay* you for it?

I love how “late capitalism” has become the “Mondays!” of the Gawker commentariat.

More to the point, he’s a *liquor store* checkout guy.  Late 30s dad buying White Claw isn’t one of the dozen most depressing things he saw *that day*.

The two things that did in Gawker were:

Exactly.  The NFL has plenty of race issues, this isn’t one of them.  Though I would be interested to know if Brady and Rodgers hunted down 8 or 9 year old versions of their preferred helmets, or just switched to the new standard.

So basically, brace yourself for disappointment either way.

Gosh, it’s almost like Dale Earnhardt was a dangerous driver who counted on people putting up with his shit...

Being solely (and downright aggressively) from the male character’s perspective, this movie is one of the rare rom-coms that seems primarily aimed at men.  I was surprised the article didn’t mention that.

In the “there’s a sucker born every minute” sense, sure.  Paying twice as much for a vegetarian approximation of a burger doesn’t strike me as nuts.  Paying three times as much for spirits with the most expensive component removed, though...

Every time I hear this line, I think “as opposed to all the ethical (x) that happened under communism, feudalism, or anarchy”.

The teenager-level of thinking behind “he took money from a corporation, therefore he’s sold out his beliefs” isn’t particularly surprising coming from Mr. Haisley.

“Don’t worry, nobody dies. They’re healed and teleported back to fight another day. Their lives are never-ending cycles of not-quite-murder and painful near-death - fun for the whole family!”