Akst: Are we ready for some football?
This column will reveal personal bias and hypocrisy, but since I have alerted readers, I’m OK with that. (The previous sentence helps explain how I flunked the only philosophy class I ever took.)
Here’s the personal bias in a nutshell: I’m bitter about sports, but not because I was a bench warmer. I got decent playing time in basketball and was more into individual sports anyway.
I’m bitter because American society spends about 5 million percent too much energy, money and brain cells on sports.
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