In 1936, the level of desolation for the vast majority of people in this country was at a level which cannot be imagined now, like in actual death by starvation level, or “we have to give our children away to random strangers, or they will die of starvation or exposure” desolation. Those people, white, black, brown,…

If the guy doesn’t want to stand during the anthem, I really don’t care. Frankly, I wish the tradition of playing the anthem before games would be done away with; it’s way too superficially preachy for my taste, like a kneeling in prayer in the end zone after a touchdown. Patriotism, like religion, is a serious…

Again, the tax that is being proposed to fund the 750 million is on the hotel receipts. Adelson is working to tax himself and his competitors, when, if they agreed on it, all the big hotels and casinos could just supply the 750 million directly, and not involve a taxing authority. Adelson has to be trying to screw his…

I’m trying to figure out the larger con Adelson is trying to pull here. The proposed 750 million is to come from hotel taxes in Las Vegas, so he essentially is seeking to tax himself, and his competitors in town. Of course, if all the large hotel/casino operators in town wanted to give the Raiders money, they could…

Peter King once bragged on the internet that he lied to a 10 year old about how a foul ball ened up in part of a spring training ballpark that was closed to the public, and called the kid a thief because the 10 year old didn’t have press credentials like Peter King, which allowed King to persuade a security guard to…

I have a theory, based in my conviction that Roger Goodell doesn’t fart until he knows that at least 24 of his bosses are ok with it. Goodell is deliberately being as large an A-hole as he can possibly be, with every instance of his use of disciplinary power. He is going to get even worse over the next 4 years. Then,…

Nope. Goodell’s the crocodile in the river. The players are the 2000 wildebeest looking to cross. The cash to be earned is the green grass on the other side. The croc is only going to get a few each year. It makes no sense for the balance of the 2000 wildebeest to forgo a good chunk of the grass they are going to be…

Oh, fer’ the luv of Howard Hughes, Goodell’s a high priced errand boy. He’s not empowered by anything other than the whims of the 31 plutocrats and the board in Green Bay who own the cartel.

The reason why Lochte’s lying isn’t trivial, even if, or especially if, Rio’s criminal justice system is corrupt, like, say, Chicago’s, is that when prominent celebrities report being victims of a violent crime, an embarassed police force can often decide to make a collar, without such niceties as having found the…

The IOC and FIFA make the NFL creeps look like the Salvation Fuckin’ Army.

This story is ridiculous. You can’t rob a goddamn replicant....

When your toughest competiton in college was, by a decent margin, 1 start against Iowa State, a preseason NFL game probably feels like a guy with a slingshot trying to outduel a crew inside a M-1 Abrams tank.

If it isn’t in the scholorship contract to have female (or male, actually) rowers attend football games, then it is completely unreasonable to ask such a thing, because it wasn’t part of the deal when the contract was offered. No, college athletes have no contractual obligation to perform marketing labor for the…

Nah, it’s just really dumb that a replicant........

Eh, the whole notion of liking or disliking human beings, that you know from observing pixels on a screen, is really dubious. He’s a flawed human being who provides supreme entertainement by working his as off, thus maximizing his gigantic athletic potential. That’s more than what most people do for others.

Yeah, the lefty reliever is the best prospect in that scenario. I wonder how many hitters have pulled it off, as in not even competing at an amateur level for 5-plus years.

He’ll get a chance because a minor league team can fill a few stadiums, late in the season, with the novelty.

That’s what always bugged me about Tebow. Guys like Moon, Garcia, Flutie, and plenty of others, were wiling to compete in the CFL, to show the NFL that they had been overlooked wrongly, but Tebow, for some unfathomable reason, deems that he is above that. If the guy doesn’t want to play in the CFL, fine, but then…

You don’t know what “hypocritical” means, or you forgot to write “might be”.

Does an MP5 count as one of your 14 allowed clubs in a bag?