“Who in the hell is this Democrat-come-lately to scold Democrats on all they’ve done wrong?”

Haven't read the article yet, just glad to see you're alive Tyler! #tylerisfree!

This is what I just can’t not understand. People, especially young men, do terrible things all the time. If you own up to it, make amends, and generally continue to live your life not being a garbage person then you deserve forgiveness. Why mot move the hell on Peyton Manning. Why bring it up over and over again just…

It really says a lot about the Mannings that they thought it was a good idea to go after this woman in the book “they wrote”. Ignore the incident, acknowledge it in anodyne terms, whatever, but even setting aside the subsequent harassment of sending material to her new employers, why would they go in for a little…

I mean Diana could always write an article about Cam Newton robbing a fellow student and getting busted for academic fraud at UF multiple times and then having him and his father break NCAA rules by selling Cam to the highest bidder.

I, on the other hand, read the article. Well done, as always. Sadly, I suspect that thoughtful remarks, if any, on an ingrained culture of athletic privilege are going to be drowned out by “I would put up with [insert-offensive-behavior-here] for $300K”. If you are the latter, then you have missed the point entirely.

I can tell you how they kept it covered for two decades; the same way every athlete factory shuts up talk of their players’ crimes: They tell the local press to shut up, the local press nods its head and says, ‘Yes, sir. Hope we do well in the postseason, sir.’

I ... what is the relevance of the color of her skin or who she dated?

You don’t need to. You are now an adult which means you can spread glue accurately and not make blobs of it part of the structure, or put gluey thumb-prints on the transparent parts. The nosewheel is unlikely to stick to your palm these days and your mum is not going to be picking a missile fin out of the gaps between…

Damn you. I just stopped by to have a quick look and got sucked into 13 open tabs.

Since we are speaking of Top Gun, how does it compare to Sky Fighters? Mirages are sexy planes.

1. Flying Apaches

The F-35 was designed to replace the F-16, not the F-15. We came up with a world beating replacement for the F-15, the F-22. The problem is we only purchased a VERY small amount of them. So how do you make up for that? The F-35 definitely has the stealth advantage. But, it’s limited both in its range(especially…

Itskind of a fuzzy area. The F15-Silent Eagle was estimated at about 100 million a pop in 2009. So about 118 million now. The F35 cost per unit is down to about 98million (this data may be out dated from the quick Google search at work) the price difference isn’t really all that much. But! Given that the US and her…

The F-35 will easily be over 200M each, because we can’t afford to buy all of them. Congress will cut back the order and the price per unit will mushroom. You are buying into the same lowball cost estimates every new DOD acquisition starts with, and ignoring the fact that in the end they all go way over.

Yes it can. Not up to the F-22's standard, but it will be a capable fighter. Especially in BVR. Which is exactly one of it’s best features.

The F-15SE is the only aircraft that would really fill the gap to any great extent from the cut short F-22 production. It is pretty much the only fighter in production that can match both the avionics, payload, range, and agility of a late model flanker. Sadly, I doubt it will happen as it would make much of the F-35…