Missed the “h” in “Chris Carter” at first glance.

Another good question is whether anybody at Gawker Media would be principled enough to turn away a half billion, if it could be obtained by telling the local populace living around their headquarters that they we were reloacting absent such a payoff. That isn’t attribute any such principles to Kroenke; he’d take the…

Would you have preferred giving him a half billion to stay?

Would it had been preferable if Kroenke said at the outset, “Hey, I’m a real estate developer, and moving the Rams to the Hollywood Park site might be the best project I’ve ever had, or will ever have, so that is what I’m going to do”? Absolutely. As it is, however, St. Louis is so, so, so much better off for not…

Hey, dummy? Nobody really gets harmed when a football team moves, except perhaps somebody who is employed by one, so the “millions of people” assertion indicates that you would have tough time beating my dog at checkers. Secondly, and you likely don’t have enough brains to grasp the concept, acting on the idea that…

Why do you find it preferable? They both suck beyond all description.

You really want to live in a country where local governments use the power of eminent domain to seize businesses? Look, there are no circumstances where subsidizing these stadiums makes sense. One really shitty, illegitimate use of government’s power to tax, however, doesn’t make it less shitty to to abuse the power…

Bob Irsay was an honest to goodness criminal, who obtained an NFL franchise (bought Rams, swapped for Colts) with stolen money, but make no mistake, any owner would have thought the smart thing to do was to pack up immediately and leave, the moment a local government voted to use eminent domain to threaten the owner’s…

Don’t be a dumbass.

Why the hell should somebody in San Diego hope to hand over several hundred million bucks to the Spanos family?

I guess I don’t understand fandom, and I say that as somebody who likes sports in general and football in particular. Groenke just said, “Hey, I’ll not take 400 or 500 million bucks out of the wallets of St. Louis or Missouri taxpayers. Instead I’ll build a building at my own expense in L.A..”

Sue him for what? He bought a business with a lease that would be expiring in a few years, the lease has expired, and now he wants to move the business, and isn’t hitting any taxpayers up for any cash to build the new place. By NFL chiseler-owner standards, Stan Kroenke is a goddamned humanitarian.

No, the film industry tax breaks are largely a taxpayer ripoff as well, albeit not on the scale as the stadium con-jobs.

Another illiterate who thinks “libertarian” is a synonym for “anarchist”.

The victim has agency. The victim can choose to not take the abuser’s cash, in return for the victim’s slience. If a person sells silence for cash, and the purchaser of silence attacks another person, the seller of silence is party to that 2nd attack.

No, fuck you, for refusing to acknowledge the plain undeniable, truth. If Holder took money to obtain her silence, and Hardy goes on to kill or seriously harm another woman in the future, that’s blood money.

I pretty much wholly reserve the term “thug” for agents of the state, and those that wish to further empower them.

Fifty million actually seems to be a reasonable figure to sue for, and I think it would have to be north of 100 million to become mildly ridiculous. Thabo has this season and next to run on his contract, when he’ll be 32. He was averaging 19 minutes a game for a number 1 seed. We have seen many athletes, in many…

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Look, if a human being is going to simply refuse to leave, when ordered to by another human being who has legal authority to issue such an order, then the first human being is going to have to be physically removed, or legal authority is by definition suspended. Are you really arguing that if the parents can’t be…