Per Simon, the coach, or at least the coach’s med staff, actively deceived Simon about the seriousness of his knee injury... I might question how transparent you think the costs are.

Not sure who the author of the news item was, but the NMA (the referenced journal’s associated medical association) was/is the black answer to the AMA because of segregation in the AMA.

Don't worry, the feeling's mutual.

Not that the Klan wouldn't show up, but those don't look like, er...authentic Klansmen. They have no Klavern affiliation insignia, and one dude has what looks like a tape measure for a belt on. Step your game up, MO Klansmen...

The trajectory that you describe isn't particularly accurate, and there's more to the medicalizing of addiction than "we have a disease, we're not criminals!" There are four components that transformed addiction into a medical issue. First, many of the earliest opiate addicts were the result of iatrogenic treatment.…

Lighten up, Francis.

How many Maginot Line jokes are gonna describe the Brazilian defense after today? It's obvious the DFB was just looking for a little lebensraum on the pitch.

So, you know people's best interests better than themselves? Mind you, many couldn't vote against anything, as they were disfranchised except in state and city politics, where the poor whites continually voted for their own enfranchisement and employment against capital-P Progressives (who wanted to and succeeded in…

In Virginia, you have your choice of the battle flag OR an RE Lee plate. The choices are endless. I mean, two.

My apologies, but I really don't follow how naming storms is harmful to viewers. Is the practice a move for increased viewing? Probably. But is there any reputable evidence to suggest that naming storms harms anyone? Conversely, does it actually help?

Technically, he's an Ohioan. Who went to Princeton.