The Department of State is being horrendously hollowed out by Trump and Tillerson, as an oped in today’s Washington Post by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright points out. Neither Trump nor Tillerson believes in diplomacy, and Tillerson recently made the ludicrous argument that cutting the department budget…

I don’t think Tillerson is as sane as you think he is.

Tillerson was awful. He’s been systematically dismantled the State Department for months, to the point where retired senior staff members have cried foul from the past three administrations have cried foul. Even top Republicans like Bob Corker are sick of this stuff, to the point where Corker admittedly recently that…

They shouldn’t be forced to stand at attention for an anthem either. How is that lost on you?

One thing I want to re-emphasize in reply to this is that we have no idea if the bulk of that $89 million is new money. The league can just take it out of its already-planned charitable budget. Or its ad budget.

You can certainly qualm that, but I do feel pretty cynical about an owner spending a total of $1.75 million, with nothing to stop them from (metaphorically, but not overly so) spending it on an ad campaign saying “The NFL: Look how much we care about black people.”

Can my employer make me stand for the national anthem before I start my job? Can my employer make sure that I don’t work anywhere else if I refuse?

Nobody has the right to make another US citizens stand for the National Anthem or rend any honors to the flag, per the US Supreme Court in WV State Board of Education v. Barnette. In what country do you live?

No, actually everyone has a right to protest at work. However, most of us dont have the leverage or power to ever consider it.

Tennessee and Alabama play every year.

I don’t think you know much about football.

They can certainly win it, playing Bama just hasn’t worked in their favor for the past 11 seasons.

I’d love to see Tennessee win the SEC West.

You forgot about the third Saturday in October, they play Alabama every single year.

Tennessee should chase Les Miles. The only reason he was fired from LSU is because they couldn’t get past Saban often enough. But nobody can. At Tennessee, he is in the SEC East so they don’t have to worry about Bama until the conference championship game and maybe not even then if it is a year that the Iron Bowl is…