Whenever the owner of a sports team claims that a stadium will improve the local economy, it’s important to remember that “local” means “very local to him”, as in his own holdings and assets.

Bingo. Some people’s rise to fortune and fame involves repeatedly climbing several greasy poles of increasing net worth.

The newspaper link was to the Torygraph, which is slightly less awful than the Daily Mail. The other two sites look very disreputable even by the low standards of tabloids that are designed to scare easily excitable old ladies.

None of that will make it legal, as you suggest. The conference was discussing how to classify it as a mental illness, which is the opposite of normalizing it. Two attendees (including one admitted pedophile who isn’t even an academic) took the extreme outlier view that it’s a normal urge.

It won’t be. It’s becoming recognized by academics as a compulsion and mental disorder rather than just as a character flaw, but since children can’t meaningfully consent engaging in it won’t be legal in 25 years.

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The new stadium is always sold as a public good: neighborhood revitalization, higher property values, more tourism dollars, civic pride, etc. It rarely works out that way.

It’s not just Atlanta. New stadiums are always boondoggles, corporate welfare for billionaires.

Judge Aaron Persky joins Judge Jean Hudson Boyd (of affluenza kid notoriety) in the “rich white boys will be boys” sentencing hall of fame.

Don’t count him out. Everything time Big Head lands on “Go back one space” in the game of life it sends him forward 10 spaces.

I always recommend that people who like “Veep” also seek out “The Thick of It,” Ianucci’s original show. His movie “In the Loop” is also fantastic.

For future reference: if it involves the rape of a post-pubescent woman, it’s a Baptist scandal; if it involves the rape of a pre-pubescent boy, it’s a Catholic scandal.

Never feel sorry for a grifter. They may not be fully aware of what they’re doing, but they’re still dangerous predators. When they get involved in medicine people can die. I hope they send her to the slammer.

“Mom said I didn’t clean my room, but she’s a loser because my room was always clean. Sad!”

Anecdotally, the number of women I’ve known over the years who’ve confided in me that they were sexually assaulted leads me to believe it’s at least 1 in 4.

It is tone-deaf and thirsty enough to be convincing, though.

Wow, twist ending! It’s like the commercial was directed by a racist M Night Shyamalan.

Generally speaking, sure. A soccer stadium is also multi-purpose.