SageAgainstTheMachine

I agree with this. I'm an understanding person, but when a guy becomes rich after not having much money and he ends up blowing it all on extravagances instead of savoring the many small comforts it can provide, that says something about his character. If I ever become a multi-millionaire, most of that money is getting saved and split between charity and progeny upon my death. I mean, sure, buy a nicer house. Become a wine collector. Take an annual vacation. Treat your friends and family to a nice dinner every once in a while. That's what I consider the high life to be, not wasting thousands of dollars on a daily basis.

All of this makes sense. However, to the extent that Hearst and Pulitzer permanently exploded the propaganda industry, doesn't mainstream (read: lazy) journalism simply reflect what a pre-conceived (and then market tested) audience wants to hear? And within the dollars and cents schema of big media, wouldn't the aspirations of the idealistic cub reporter be rendered moot? Obama is the most ready example...most are convinced that the media consistently softens the blows earned from his incompetence, but given his exceedingly low approval ratings there MUST be more advertising revenue to be had by twisting the knife, rather than trying to pull it out.

Cancer still blows. RIP

With the assumption that a certain general bias does exist (not so much the vast conspiracy that some imagine, but a liberal bent nonetheless), what do you suppose is its impetus? What benefit does the media, news organizations in particular, gain from skewing information to the left? I've really no opinion of my own, so I'm not trying to drive home a point...just curious as to your opinions.

2,200 all purpose yards in 4 straight years. Might be having one of the quietest HOF careers in NFL history.

I don't think that's a "that guy" statement. Cultures (American black culture included) place varying levels of value on objects/experiences. "That guy" is the person who says, "Haha! Stupid black people and their expensive sneakers!", while sipping a $10 venti frozen caramel mocha choco-latte with soy milk.

Out of the millions of reasons to blast the Bills FO, speculation by Mel Kiper isn't one of them.

Incidentally, another of my favorites: Portmanteau

Well, the beard attention is obviously his own doing, but I think the media took the wedding ring item and ran with it.

No, it doesn't.

$180 for basketball shoes? I know people value things differently, but to me that's just absurd.

*aboard a blimp

That's an annoying one for sure. To play devil's advocate, people ultimately decide the meanings of words and one could argue that "unique" has become conflated with "irregular" over time.

Psychologically, children are self-centered by nature.

The sad part is that Dave was on the verge of making a somewhat funny self-deprecating joke. Then his fingers got in the way.

I'm pretty neutral on the Toronto situation, but Ralph sure doesn't have a good sense of timing.

#3 from "Reading" - Give one stanza of a poem from your favorite author. What % of today's 8th graders have read any poetry of their own volition? Fixed it for ya

Yes, I can't really say that I'm too well versed in WV health resorts.

There are a number of undesirable locations in the Top 10, Buffalo perhaps being the most undesirable, but I doubt that the Bills specifically scared him away.

This makes me VERY UPSET.

The gonorrhea ridden septuagenarian invited his idiotic friends onto his dirigible, where he delivered a fallacious speech about even-toed ungulates with multiple humps, and even they, nitwits that they were, understood that his example of the single-humped dromedary was an antithesis to his cause.

You sir, are a gentleman and scholar. I love 'Harangue', and as a Scrabbler there's a special place in my heart for 'Quell'.

The names that Carey Bender listed are all great WRs, but context has to be taken into account. If Stevie was on the Saints or Patriots, he'd be a household name. I have no doubt about it. And Stevie has 16 TDs and counting over the last two seasons.

Yes, can't believe I omitted it. I wonder if it's being done in by overuse, though.

Not in terms of their meaning or implication...just aesthetics. My favorites: Dirigible Septuagenarian Nitwit Dromedary Fallacious Antithesis Gonorrhea