I don’t know about lawyers, but physicians’ malpractice insurance, generally speaking, excludes willful acts, although willfulness tends to be more subjective in medical cases (in other words a doctor might be found to have acted improperly, but without strong evidence of intent, his or her insurance would still pay…

It’s still quite popular as far as regular TV shows go. I’m guessing Disney figures there’s still a hard core of fans whom they can soak for streaming cash regardless of quality.

It’s god awful financial advice unless you think that younger players are somehow going to be valued and paid less by the market than they are today.

Now that he’s not at RM anymore, it’s okay to like him.

I don’t understand why you’d come up with a system to reward teams for not being places that people want to stay in the first place.

what they’re really doing is killing them with a thousand smash cuts.

Fallon and Leno know no other kind.

No. Baseball is better when the Red Sox and Cubs are bad (i.e. most of the 20th century). The NBA is better when LeBron is in the playoffs, regardless of team, and college football was good when Notre Dame was good simply because when the money and under the table payments were slightly less and mid range teams could…

Nimrod is Hebrew and Shmul is Yiddish, so I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s probably not all that uncommon.

Oh they complain about it all the damn time. Undermining public primary and secondary education is like #3 on the GOP priority list. And it’s the one their likely to get the most success with (see: NCLB, vouchers, charter schools) because if there’s one thing radical centrist white suburban families can get behind,…

The target audience for porn is skewed like the target audience for many other things (big budget video games, fashion, etc), by the fact that a relatively small number of really obsessive people spend an outsized proportion of time and money on it, so the overwhelming majority of what’s produced caters to their…

This study doesn’t say anything about diet drinks, because they don’t contain sugar.

All I find myself concluding from this is that the admissions incidents at these schools were not one-off incidents or a single bad actor working unbeknownst to the university at large. The fact that a journalism instructor feels free to disregard professional ethics when it concerns his paycheck, and no one else on…

They use GMG’s copy editors now.

I used to think that way, too - he’d had a fucked up childhood, grew up too fast in all the wrong ways, and didn’t realize the enormity of what he was doing. But, over time, more details have emerged and I’ve seen more cases of abuse, it’s clear to me that this perspective, too, was something he cultivated as part of…

The bubble is already here and has been around a while. People don’t realize how much teams in the Premier League, Champions League, and NBA are subsidized by overseas fans, especially in Asia. When their interest drops off or shifts, you’re going to see a major contraction.

I mean, the media at large is also hugely responsible, because they turned the investigation into a circus. I remember a similar situation a few years prior with the OJ Simpson trial: it occupied such a huge proportion of daily reporting for an extended period of time that there was practically nothing else in the…

Public shaming is fine as long it’s people we don’t like!

Reminds me of West Side Story.

Johnny (Sucks At) Football