For what it's worth, I'm a white, excessively educated NYer and have no idea what you're talking about. Suggested reading material (beyond the obvious googling)?

As you alluded to, isn't it obvious? If I say to you that it is raining, I don't need to say "from the sky." It's implied, and is "duh" territory. You wouldn't say I failed to tell the "whole story" about where the rain came from.

I'm still making my way through this interview - interesting stuff so far.

This. Seriously. If I was a QB drafted by the Browns I would absolutely pull an Eli Manning and refuse to play for them. It's where promising QBs go to die. I wouldn't want ANY part of that organization, and would even try to sabotage me picking them by saying dumb things in any sort of interviews/tests they do.

Browns Owner: What's with these pre-draft shenanigans I'm hearing about Kevin? It's getting some people in the league pretty upset.

"THAT'S TOTALLY UNFAIR HIRING SOMEONE WHO WORKED WITH THE KID BEFORE THE COMBINE!!"

I think it's because the dj wrote the song - this is not a Haim song, it's a Calvin Harris song. I don't know if Harris wrote the lyrics but it's not improbable. Anyone could be singing it (I don't mean that in a rude way toward Haim, I'm just saying. This is more or less how it works in danceymusic world, as I…

Hipster moment.

I've coached youth and Little League Baseball for quite a while and it's just so ridiculous the extent to which adults will do things for their own egos that just ultimately harm the kids they coach (who often are their own children). If you want to go out and just pull together an over-the-top superstar team as a…

I'm sympathetic to their concerns, of course, but "mandatory, twice a semester" "consent education" sounds like a corporate sexual harassment seminar-style nightmare that will breed little but resentment and ridicule from most of those required to attend.

Eh. This is my Alma Mater, so I've been following this story closely. I have to say, this almost religious drive to make college an absolutely safe space for absolutely everyone (indicated in the tweet above) is not, I think, a good thing. NO PLACE is absolutely safe and pretending we can make it so is a dangerous…

Justice and, to a lesser extent, Law Enforcement have a much higher burden of proof than what the college itself can do. Its possible that, if the Legal system were the only force acting, that the accused would be allowed to stay on campus until found guilty (which may take years, it at all) .

I had a male friend who was friends with a girl who "friend broke-up" with him. She went off to college and sent him a package in the mail with stuff in it (idk what was in it, I think just some snacks and stuff) along with a note that basically said, "I'm friend breaking up with you." He, along with all our male…

You clearly have not reveled in the heat of a truly burning bridge.

Related: Gawker Media men leave the seat up, but far less frequently than you might expect.

Weirdest use of the interstate commerce clause ever?

The small D-pad is its biggest flaw, but what I hate more is what it did to my brain. It made me want to move my thumb to the right to hit an X button, whereas with the Wii Classic controller, I have to move it up and to the left if my finger is already on A. This has prevented me from using anything but the GC…

yep, lots of disagreement here. it's as if molds were taken of hands in a resting position, and they made a controller to fit them.

Uh, yeah I disagree. The GCN controller was beast and super comfortable, might not look "cool" but it worked wonderfully.

@KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler: Now now. As a kid I honestly had no trouble with it. But as an adult this thing is uncomfortable to hold when you use the joystick and buttons. I have to hold it weirdly to play F-Zero and it kinda fucks with my control.