Still crazy after all these years

but they are not the most despised team -- yet (Poll Results from Public Policy Polling) Bill Bellichick's favorability is in G. W. Bush range:  Belichick has a 28/41 favorability rating among NFL fans, compared to 37/16 for Pete Carroll. (Gallup: George W. Bush's Low Point: 25% [three times; most recent: Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008] ) Patriots are not popular either The Patriots as a team overall have a 36/43 favorability rating with fans, making them one of only two teams we tested (the Cowboys at 40/42 being the other) with a net negative rating. Seahawks picked to win Seahawks (despite disconcerting antics by Lynch and Sherman) are picked to win on Sunday Americans say they're rooting for the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl by a 7 point margin, 36/29. Bottom line: Americans don't care much for the Patriots, but that was already true. The Pack are way ahead of everyone else The Packers remain the most popular team in the country. They have a +36 net favorability rating with...

Rolling Stone interview with Ava DuVernay Rolling Stone: Let's talk about reducing LBJ's role in the events you depict in the film. Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view. The script was the LBJ/King thing, but originally, it was much more slanted to Johnson. I wasn't interested in making a white-savior movie; I was interested in making a movie centered on the people of Selma. You have to bring in some context for what it was like to live in the racial terrorism that was going on in the deep south at that time. The four little girls have to be there, and then you have to bring in the women. So I started adding women. This is a dramatization of the events. But what's important for me as a student of this time in history is to not deify what the president did. Johnson has been hailed as a hero of that time, and he was, but we're talking about a reluctant hero. He was cajoled and pushed, he was protective of a legacy — he was not doing th...

This is a scary number from the Journal of Pediatrics: Approximately 20 children and teenagers are shot daily in the United States. We need to have a dialogue on guns in the U.S. Instead, we attempt to talk to only one side of the argument. That dialogue will not happen today, and our cherished young people suffer from it.