Yup. As an example - the complete lack of outrage when Goodell punished the Cowboys and Skins for breaking a salary cap rule that didn’t exist. You could even argue that the Skins were punished more harshly than the Pats.

This isn’t nearly as arbitrary or ridiculous as the Cowboys and Skins being punished for breaking a non-existent salary cap rule.

Isn’t the Sean Peyton suspension for “ignorance” a precedent? The league’s position seems to be “people in charge are responsible for what their organization does”. Goodell is an ass, but, if the whole punishment had fallen to the shoulders of a couple of equipment guys, it would have been pretty damned ridiculous.

In my little circle of the world, the vast, vast majority of Courtney haters were women, many of whom had a crush on Kurt. I don’t know if I have ever heard an anti-Courtney rant from a guy.

That’s EXACTLY how Houdini died.*

Ben Bishop’s hockey nickname is “Bish”? Not “Bishy”?

Hockey has changed.

Apply that technology to car windshields, and make a billion dollars.

I am all for body cams on police officers, but, there needs to be some protections for citizens written into law.

We already see how access to mug shots has created a cottage industry in legal blackmail. What will happen with video? Unlike mug shots, police body cam videos may include people who were not even arrested…

Basketball is the only major sport that doesn’t understand what it’s own most exciting or impressive play is. The best play in basketball is the and-one.

I can promise you that the Top 10 and-ones would be more entertaining than the Top 10 dunks. Every player in the NBA can dunk. But, nailing a driving, twisting,…

What you are missing is the word “symmetrically”. The puzzle states “a string is wound symmetrically around a circular rod...”. Yes, in theory, you could wind the string around the center of the rod, and it would remain symmetrical. But, in order to save time of a lengthy explanation of what they meant, they included…

Why not? I don’t need to agree that someone should be offended, in order to recognize that they were offended. If that offends you, I am genuinely sorry about that.

The idea of racism is offensive to you, and to me, but, clearly it is not offensive to millions of racists. So, it is not objectively offensive - it is widely felt to be offensive. That doesn’t make it less damaging, awful, or tolerable - it just means it’s not objectively offensive. Just like no work of art is…

I don’t think that is necessarily true. I don’t believe in God. If I state publicly that I don’t believe in God, some people may be offended by that. While I am not sorry for my beliefs, I really am genuinely sorry that it offends some people - it’s not my intent, and, I don’t find my beliefs to be offensive, but,…

On escalators (DC's metro system has many long escalators), stand on the right, walk on the left.

I am calling bullshit all over this story, and I can’t believe anyone is taking it seriously.

It’s just too much. If the letter-writer said she had decided to go to some sort of swingers party or orgy and had sex with 25 people as a pre-planned and pre-arranged event, I MIGHT believe it (probably not - I’d suspect…

I am not disagreeing, because I do believe, philosophically, that whatever two (or 26) consenting adults do is nobody’s business but their own.

But, I am trying to imagine how I would feel if a friend of mine (female or male) told me that they had sex with 25 people at a party (nonetheless unprotected sex!!!). I do…

I have to believe that, if a dude wrote to an advice column and said he was the 25th guy to have unprotected sex with a woman (or man) at a party, and he caught an STD or had a baby on the way, or was facing any sort of consequences, there would be a fair amount of criticism heading his way, and not much sympathy.

Yes,…

Great Plains, Southern Plains, or Southwest.

That’s what they said in 2008.

Thats why I am so curious about which methods are currently used out there (I am in Oklahoma, where we also have severe drought, but no one gives a shit about it). The irrigation canal photo indicates flood irrigation, which is the least efficient of all irrigation methods (and, of course, the cheapest). There is a…