John Adams

What Smith said is pretty much inmprehensible but my interpretation is that if you don't want to get into trouble, don't walk into a trouble zone. That makes sense to me. When I'm in India, I don't go out and walk the streets of Delhi at night. Why? Because I'm not an idiot. Yes, it's "someone else's fault" if I get mugged but that won't make me feel better when I'm in the Delhi ER getting injected with MRSA. If you start physically beating up a guy with a short fuse, it's not a good idea. That doesn't mean that Ray Rice is not a dumbass. It just means that beating up a big strong dumbass may lead to bad outcomes. Eff you all for making me defend that douchenozzle Stephen A Smith.

Give it credit for first in class, or if not first because you probably know of some ancient Hungarian scribe's epic about an equivalent middle earth, give it credit for being the breakthrough in English. Pretty much all the fantasy books that followed it are merely variations on Tolkein's creation. I for one love multiple pages written in Elvish.

If you don't think it will work, it won't.

It's called stim not electro shock therapy although that's closer to what he needs.

You don't understand HIPAA and how they could get this story. Asking questions does not violate HIPAA. If someone in a position to violate HIPAA and does, how is that the journalists' problem, especially if he protects the source? You all set low expectations for your journalists. And if some journalist found out, determined that keeping it private makes some kind of moral sense (I can't imagine a situation where whatever is going on falls into this category but let's say it does), he could still report it as a "private medical issue" and discuss updates on possible return. If you don't think this is odd, I'm surprised. The starting LT, one of the most important players on the team, is out and it's not explained. It's weird. Players, staff, ball boys, friends. It's called being a reporter. It can't be that hard to find out. This isn't the formula for Coca Cola.

It's news. Reporters report news.

I'm saying that any journalist who can't get to the bottom of this story is not much of a journalist. That's what I'm saying. They won't get Whaley and Marrone on record but this can't be that hard of a story to get to the bottom of. You pull aside two players, they tell you. You confirm with the assistant sub trainer. You report what the issue is as confirmed by players and other source. The end. It's not like we're cracking open Deep Throat's identity here.

HIPAA does not cover journalists. They are not health care providers or insurers. How a journalist can't find out what's going on and report it is beyond me. It smells like (1) reporter laziness or (2) something embarrassing where they are respecting the player's request for privacy.

This again? How can a journalist not get to the bottom of this? It can't be that hard.

That's good. Aaaaaaand...I still want to know if he's coming back this season or WTF is going on.

That report is a week old. There hasn't been a peep since. Manuel's a developing QB and his starting LT is MIA. What's up?

Anyone herd/read anything on Glenn? His absence is brutal.

What's most interesting about this all, to me, is that this conflict shows how important journalists with integrity still are. There is no way to figure out any objective view of what's happening from the tweet-journalism because people are so absurdly biased in all of this mess. Anecdotally, I read a Facebook post the other day that quoted as a source, "My daughter ___ read somewhere that Hamas..." You know, because what a teen reads on the internet is news. This post came from a renowned person so I don't want to say more.

That's BS. If you were overweight, he'd say "there you go." If you were in a car accident in 1999, he'd say "there you go." If you fell on your driveway this past winter, he'd say "there you go." There's no easy "there you go" to some mysterious chronic back pain. One thing that I found when I went through my pain baloney is that every doctor wants to ID the cause so they grasp at them. And if you go to 6 docs, you'll get 4 diagnoses. I had docs telling me everythign from hernia to back issues to nerve damage to muscle tears etc. All of them sounded confident in their diagnoses and all of them showed me different MRIs or images telling me something was wrong. Try out the "you're just crazy" diagnosis. You know it's true and it might cut through years of medical crap. Do not get back surgery. That's just plain stupid.

Ill bottom line it. You're crazy. Your craziness affects your body. Undo or acknowledge some craziness and you'll feel better. Now, you're so !@#$ed up that it might be too late for you. In that case, skip the cure and drink more wine.

I did accupuncture for something else. I have to say that it's rejuvenating...but no more rejuvenating than setting aside 60 minutes to sit in peaceful meditation or a low pressure yoga class. To me, that's the reason it works. It works because meditation works. On the back pain, I didn't have chronic back pain but I had another chronic pain issue and found this book to be extremely helpful. It took me 3 years and chiros, accupuncture, doctors, platelet injections (like the pros!), PT, shrinks, and everything short of a witch doctor to get to listening to the advice and diagnosis in that book, which I'd read early in the process. Good luck. We don't see eye to eye at times but the chronic pain thing can be a B word and I relate. As that book indicates, mine was largely in my noggin. You're completely screwed up so it's probably in yours too.

The problem is that defining the "they" is so hard. If you and me start a war against Mexico and lob some bombs at them, is it OK if Mexico attacks DeMoines? Or blows up the school next to our warehouse? This is a hard and complicated issue that defies simple resolution. Israel is screwed no matter what it does. Right now, it is no closer to ending this conflict. But the futures market for Hammas looks good. Not a particularly bright author: "We go at great lengths to avoid civilians actually calling them in their areas and dropping warning charges, to give innocents a chance to escape. That’s unprecedented in warfare history."

Eli Manning wouldn't last 1 second as a free agent. He's not his brother but he's still got game. If the a Bills had a shot at him and didn't take it, it would be criminal.

You're as wrong as Promo.

I love that Thad Lewis somehow managed to beat Miami last year. That said, come on man. Did you watch the guy? He's not the answer unless the question is: "Who's the best 3rd string QB who won 2 games last year?" You can't be serious betting your backup QB spot on Lewis's potential upside.

Anyone satisfied with the backup competition between Tuel, Lewis and Dixon is nuts. Yes, you Promo. The fact that you're making me agree with GG hurts me deeply. You said somewhere "this is conjecture" when GG pointed out that we know Lewis's ceiling and that there's reason not to expect much from Tuel yet. Really? Do you expect big things from Thad Lewis? I like the guy. Really do. Great heart last year and all. But come on man: He's not a guy I want with the keys to the team. And though Tuel has some upside, he's not any great shakes either. The Bills FO made a huge mistake not having a proven backup on this team. I would much rather have Rex Grossman, David Carr, or others as backup and let Tuel settle in as third string than to have all the current third string quality guys competing for a backup spot. Someone above makes the point that keeping Tuel is part of development. OK, I'm fine with that. But I don't want Tuel to be a Vince Wilfork ACL-tackle away from being under center.

So this lawsuit was initiated out of concern that the federal exchanges were improper and only state run exchanges were? Or was it an attempt to disrupt Obamacare? The judge's statement is accurate. I imagine even the right-wingers would agree. All the anti-Obamacare lawsuits share that goal. This one is particularly annoying because there's a workaround that is only going to cost us all billions in setting up state exchanges.

But that's what happened here. The dissenting judge gave detailed legal reasoning (that you may disagree with) and in that reasoning, described possible consequences. That happens all the time. Everyone loves a slippery slope argument, especially when dissenting.

Judges don't decide in a vacuum and often comment on the ramifications of decisions, Scalia included. Despite all the links, you don't read much do you?

You do understand that the final determination hasn't been made, yes? There's an en banc petition coming then an appeal. Settle down the knee jerk reactions Ahab.