Being good at slinging a ball around doesn’t make you a hero, part 327

As the Penn State report is being reviewed, and people are talking about how a man could rape multiple children over a sustained period with the protection of his colleagues, I see explanations of “hero worship” and comparisons to the Catholic church again and again. I won’t say these explanations […]

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A big bowl of super

Oatmeal pretty well sums up my thoughts about football on this Super Bowl Sunday taking place in, of all places, Dallas: In short: Don’t give a damn.  Never have.  Have a very hard time, actually, understanding why people do. But I hope the people currently congregating by the hundreds of […]

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