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Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
The forces acting upon a body are complex, but if the pediatrician was implying that a single anecdote proved anything in general, much less in principle, I would get my kid away from him or her immediately! A priori rejection of a proposition is akin to the denial epidemic that ravages the world. The Shrub used to say things like we don't have enough data to prove this or that if he wanted to resist. With all due respect to "scientists" who don't have enough dead NFL brains (izzat ironic, or what?) to come to "definitive" conclusions--HELLO?--there's something called theoretical foundations, based on pieces of an "unknown" from which *plausible* conclusions can be drawn. Just how many NFL players have to shoot themselves in the chest to provide “definitive” conclusions? That’s not a FAIR QUESTION? There is no question that acceleration and deceleration forces that the brain can sustain without permanent injury COMMONLY occur during football games. If this is wrong, please refute. Now, I have to go out into the garage and fulminate.— May 8, 2012 8:13 p.m.
Suggestion Box
I don't want this section to be my private echo chamber, but I do have one other request to make. I recently tried to do a research project on the "archive" and found that only the month and day are listed on comments, not the year. Would y'all consider adding the year to all dates for radical fans like me?— May 8, 2012 7:10 p.m.
Harbor Police, Reader Hoarding, and Animals with People Names
I'm a little late reading this, but there needs to be a major investigation of the Harbor Police, as well as the Port AUTHORITY(!!!) It is a completely independent fiefdom that answers to no one, least of all the citizens.— May 8, 2012 6:41 p.m.
Bridgepoint Reports Poor Earnings, Stock Plummets
Most (all?) for-profit "universities" are just part of the giant shakedown racket that is facilitated by the politicians who (along with their PAC's) are the same ones who buy the most advertising. With all the hand-wringing over "standards" in public education, why not standards for these pickpockets-on-steroids? It should be easy to track the "graduates" who actually get jobs compared to private and public universities. No performance, no money, Capiche?— May 8, 2012 4 p.m.
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
Yes, but the question is which alternative results in the least damage. I don't know, and I'd wager that no one does. That means it could be one of many alternatives in a disciplined examination of what should and should not be done. Re: dbauder May 7, 10:36 p.m.— May 8, 2012 3:47 p.m.
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
!Ay, seguro que si! Exactamente!— May 6, 2012 12:23 a.m.
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
Talking with a friend this morning at breakfast. He suggested going back to leather helmets. Sounds counterintuitive until you realize that the hard helmets allow harder hitting.— May 6, 2012 12:22 a.m.
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
Cigarette smoking has declined from what it was when I grew up choking with two smoker-parents . . .— May 6, 2012 12:19 a.m.
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
Conflicted? CONFLICTED? C O N F L I C T E D? Le'ssee, "I can stand up against the hands that hand me my largesse, or I can find someplace where I can serve in good conscience." If this guy is conflicted over that, there just might be some conflict with some Commandment . . . Re: dbauder May 4, 5:12 p.m.— May 4, 2012 7:29 p.m.
Seau Apparent Suicide Could be Watershed NFL Event
Being a sports star doesn't make one a hero or a "hero," nor does being a wounded warrior automatically make you one. But we should shoulder our responsibility to protect them both--by not sending them out on the field for our amusement or for revenge in the first place, especially to crouch in a trailer five thousand miles away to slaughter "bad guys" and shrug off collateral damage self-righteously and indifferently just because we are insulated from having to look into the eyes of the ones we kill. Re: dbauder May 4, 5:57 p.m.— May 4, 2012 7:23 p.m.