Owen Good's discussions

Well, if “being shitty” doesn’t suffice for cause for dismissal, what else could it be?

(I say this to point out that “being shitty” should be cause for dismissal but it rarely is because its subjective, etc.) Read more

I love it that I’m now of an age where people envy my childhood. Read more

It is not your fault at all. My tone wasn’t clear. Read more

You and I are in agreement. My question was more rhetorical, and I’m sorry that it wasn’t apparent. My point, and I think yours, too, is it’s a pretty cheap cop-out to blame the audience. Read more

I wasn’t complicit in any of this. I didn’t buy a ticket to the game. I didn’t watch it on the TV. I did read about it in this blog, though. If you’re going to tell me it’s a moral failure of the NHL for tolerating or not policing this stuff appropriately, then isn’t it also a moral failure of this publication for… Read more

And you know, at this point, I decide I’ve got better uses for my time than worrying about the victimhood of well compensated people who know exactly what is on the table when they participate in a professional sports promotion. By now, this is like the surgeon general’s warning to smokers.
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So, the difference in growing up with and without social media is that the crazy stuff old fucks like me saw as a teenager doesn’t get memorialized. So here I will try. I remember my senior year, one of my classmates had broken up with her boyfriend, and spent a week in a kind of scary, monotone depression over it.… Read more

Survey says ...?!

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, HIGHLIGHT TRUTHERS Read more

Plus it was a false flag operation. Read more

God, I totally forgot about this play. I was recuperating from having my wisdom teeth removed, had nothing to do but watch this tournament. He brutalized them. One of the all-time great individual performances in ACC history. Read more

“Yeah, interesting!” Read more

Wait a minute, I thought we didn’t give a shit about this. Read more

FACE ME SON OF JOR-EL Read more

Came for the outrage, stayed for that voice-over. Holy Toledo, that guy needs to be voicing summer blockbuster trailers. Read more

The very best sleep I ever had, 1985, Dad had some kind of national convention to go to, so he made it a junket and brought the family. It was in Minneapolis. Mom appended a trip through the upper Midwest to justify dragging us out of school. It was about mid-November. I was 12. After the con, we departed for the… Read more

First, this was an interesting article. So this is not a criticism or a yes-but: Read more