With the recent crackdown on "free speech" (or as the rest of the world calls it "being an asshole in public") there will likely be persecution of all of the assholes in America. This will lead to secret meetings where assholes can practice their asshole ways freely. And because they …

I'd love to understand why there's a certain video-game fad over featuring shitty controls.

Flappy Bird: Shitty Controls.
QWOP: Shitty Controls.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch: Shitty Controls.

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Perhaps the reason …

I'm a reasonable guy.

I start with this because I like to think that I'm not an unreasonable person. Do right by me and I'll be satisfied. But make me jump through hoops and I'll be very disappointed.

This is the tale of two completely different customer service experiences.

Experience …

If you wanted to measure how much I couldn't care less about Football (college or otherwise) do this simple mental exercise:

Take all of the stadiums ever built (past, present and soon to be built) and lay them end-to-end. Then take every player ever to don a uniform or soon …

Marketplace had a piece in their broadcast about an investigation at Oklahoma State University over their athletic boosters. The contention is over some "impropriety" in how these boosters supported college athletes. This all leads back to the NCAA's rules about athlete compensation, which lead to a quote in the piece …