"If you want to be a dick go nuts" is my new anthem.

Awesome illustration!

Entirely possible—I admit that I'm a bit out of my depth in that market.

Fair point, but ALL interested buyers know the score, so all offers will be depressed.

Take comfort in the thought that his wife will take a huge piece of that. Also, $500 million of "worth" doesn't equate to $500 million of cash. The team is a business with a significant amount of debt, and given the circumstances of the sale, he won't get the full value for the assets. Still filthy rich, but now…

Maybe, but a forced sale means a less efficient market. He's not going to die poor, but he'll have a lot less than he would have had he sold a week ago.

Sounds like a silly gym on multiple levels, but there's obviously a market for it or they wouldn't be expanding like they have been...

Harnessed a little too much chi...

Just came across this, offers a little insight into the Dallas piece of this conversation and how these things can grow both from a contrivance and organically, at the same time: http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d….

Pretty shady, especially under the circumstances, but it wouldn't be the first time a guy lied about hooking up with a girl

We're actually pretty okay with that now, as long as he wasn't placing bets.

Great headline

A couple of humble observations: Most of the urban areas in the South never had a large core of urban housing stock to begin with. Because land is so plentiful and relatively expensive, the suburbs have always been the go-to. Because people in the South typically marry and start families younger, they are also more…

Correct—I don't know what could be smug or self-congratulatory about it. Either of those imply that I'm saying something about myself. I wasn't.

An annual convention of atheists? Sounds like a lot of self-congratulation and smugness

Takeaway from this thread: never comment on a story that involves rape. Not worth it. Ever.

I'm in my early thirties, and I'm still looking for a day like that.

Moe would call it postmodern. "Weird for the sake of weird"

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