That’s... actually a pretty persuasive response. If I’m being honest, one of my biggest issues with Sean Penn is that most people still insist his performance, and not Timothy Hutton’s, was the best part of “The Falcon and the Snowman.” For a man who had almost certainly used cocaine by that point in his life, he…

Word.

Damn. You’re good. You are the fucking man. You’re the Mike muthafuckin Tyson of discourse. Who did I think I was fucking with? I was sadly mistaken. And so on....

The operative word being “relatively.” In the NFL Mousasi might (might) have gone off the field for a few plays and then he would’ve gone back in at some point. At best, he wouldn’t have played again for that game, but would play again in practice the following week and for the next game. In boxing, Mousasi would’ve…

Many similar statements have been made about wrestling, as well. But thus far retired fighters and wrestlers have not been killing themselves or haven’t reported the symptoms related to CTE at nearly the same rates as football players. Again, time will tell, but thus far I don’t see the evidence bearing out the MMA…

Agreed on all counts. I was even thinking about guys like Couture who fought until he was damn near 50. Or guys like Henderson who have been fighting for a couple of decades. Obviously we don’t know what’s going on when the cameras aren’t on them. Maybe they’re suffering with symptoms related to CTE, but thus far the…

Kill Bill is “Meh,” but an over-acted, overly-self-serious and ultimately silly movie like Mystic River is ok? Let’s not watch grown men who willingly concuss and cripple themselves (a stance I support and follow), but watch a movie with serial woman beater and psychopath Sean Penn? Where’s the line, here?

Not completely defensible, sure. But studies seem to show that the biggest risk factors are repeated non-traumatic blows to the head (which become traumatic over time) and repeated blows to the head after a concussive blow. In MMA’s defense, fights are stopped relatively quickly after a concussive blow. And they are…

The thing is people can’t seem to wrap their head around the concept of portion control. You say you still eat pizza like it’s a bizarre thing. But a slice or two of pizza us generally not an unhealthy meal. Depending on what kind, it can actually be quite nutritious. But when you eat 3 or 4 or 8 slices, yeah that’s…

JOSH MUTHAFUCKING GROSS!!!

The more important thing about this passage, though, the reason it hits you like a bucket of cold water to the face when you get to it, is its specificity, its vividness and certainty. Nothing else that has happened in the book so far has been described like this. This is not slapdash pastiche, or guesswork, or…

Yeah, it was a little weird watching that, seeing as how Sasuke had gotten pretty tough over the years. It’s helpful to remember that the course as it was last night was essentially the same course that Yuuji defeated 5 years ago or so in Japan. In stage 3, he didn’t have to do the jump on ultimate cliffhanger, but he…

Stage 2 as a whole seemed a bit easier this year. There was no major test of balance (like the floating tank) prior to the final obstacle of the course. And even on stage three, the pole grasper (or whatever it’s called) and Area 51 seemed a bit of a downgrade in difficulty as competitors were able to use their legs…

Ok. Clinton’s a war criminal too. What does that have to do with Dubya being one?

Obama is probably a war criminal. Yes. FDR is guilty of subverting the constitution but not a war criminal. The other acts you mentioned were well within the parameters of what is accepted in war. If you were half as stupid as I am you’d realize as much.

Yeah. Ratner, for all his shortcomings as a director, is the only American filmmaker with any clue on how to shoot a Chan action sequence.

What’s so so silly about it? He flouted the Geneva conventions both in declaring war and in torturing people for 7 years, lead the country into a unilateral pre-emptive war based on knowingly false pretenses, invaded a country that had nothing to do with anything for no reason at all and initiated illegal drone…

There’s no test that involves you proving you liked watching turn-of-the-century atomweights and then positively identifying Ryota Matsune, and then being allowed into an underground club where they only play real hip hop

Yeah, the abortion analogy is a bad one, but I still don’t disagree with your general point. These people are adults. They can decide to keep playing football or not. I think it’s stupid to ruin your health for money or fame or whatever, but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t at least consider it if it were an option…

Yeah. I think I would trade technology for a existence like that. People forget that the vast majority of terrible diseases existed in Europe and central Asia. Some parts of Africa too. But east Asia, the new world and most of Africa were pretty healthy places to live.