So Tom Brady knew – or probably knew, or should have known  – that he was playing with tampered balls in the Super Bowl. I’m shocked that such a thing happened.¹He received a 4 game suspension for this misdeed. By way of comparison, a player last year received a 2 game suspension for beating the shit out of his pregnant wife…on video. Such is the moral equation of the NFL. I’m shocked.

And apparently, one of the boxers in the big bout last weekend likes to beat up women when he’s not beating up men in return for huge paychecks.²He beats the women pro bono. Shocked, I say. And his opponent, the other boxer? A raging homophobe. Shocking.

And so on.

Professional obligations prevent me from delving deeper this week, so I’ll throw this discussion back to one of the first i2b posts and you can decide if it connects. I’ll be back with some nominally original thinking as soon as the man gets off my back.

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