This - that all sports are riddled, to some extent, with terrible people or good people who do terrible things - is the reason to disassociate the sport from the athlete. Because if you don’t, then it becomes impossible to enjoy any sport. And if that’s the route someone wants to go, more power to them, but they’re…

So are they also going to stop the classic shot of the guy celebrating in his house before the pick is announced by the commissioner?

Difficult to win, absolutely, but a minor quibble: I wouldn’t be so sure that the other accusations are admissible in the hypothetical defamation case under the rules of evidence (I’m thinking 403 if you’re a lawyer). And the flip side to the more relaxed evidence standards in civil cases also means that it would be…

You are a bad person.

Are you suggesting using songs clips for ring tones ever stopped being a thing? I’ve been using the opening from the white Zombie song from Beavis and Butt-Head Do America for years.

Then why bring it up at all?

Dude, calm the fuck down. The gulf between “what really happened” and “what a prosecutor can prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt” is a wide as the gap between a whore’s legs. This woman is going to testify under oath, in both a deposition and affidavit, that she was raped. And thats going to be enough to get her…

Tell me, Clarence Darrow, what the fuck relevance or admissibility the bungling of the criminal investigation has to do with anything in the present civil suit?

I’m not like all the fancy kids with their memes and shit. So just pretend this comment has Frye from Futurama saying “Can’t tell if serious or tolling.”

Give me Mariota because he looks like he has some chance to succeed as an NFL quarterback.

You get a star, but it’s only because your username is amazing.

Doubtful. Convictions can be reversed on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel, but it’s extremely rare. Defense counsel is given very, very wide latitude in matters of trial strategy, and that a strategy backfires isn’t enough for a reversal - barring the ability to say no competent lawyer would ever in a…

I had only just gotten that goddamn song out of my head.

These are oddly-specific figures on the buyout. Any finance types have any idea where they’re coming from? Some kind of present value calculation, maybe?

Whoa. You’re from Zanesville?

Nah, I'm agreeing with you. All the cool internet kids are running around making their false equivalences while the old fogies are still stuck with their strawmen, and the hipsters are all like, "man, these logical fallacies are too commercial these days, reductio ad absurdum is the only pure fallacy left any more."…

False equivalence is the new strawman.

If I can longer rely on the truth of Doug DeMuro articles, then I no longer know what to believe. Up is down, black is white, Volkswagen is good, and Monaco is filled with shitty cars.

Nah. Will Allen didn’t fuck Jack Johnson out of money. Will Allen fucked the investors in a loan to Jack Johnson out of money.

The state I most frequently practice in allows for service by mail (first certified, frequently ordinary as a follow up). But yeah, any time there are stratgeic reasons for personal service or I’m in a state that requires it, it’s a super common occurrence.