Comment by caseydurfee

Why the contempt for professional sports?

Given that geeks are more likely to fix this stuff, why not talk about blocking hacker news, twitch.tv and reddit? What about political sites Politico, Huffington Post, Slate, that treat politics like sports -- who "won the morning", who's going to win Iowa in 2016, etc., deserve a lot more blame for peoples' political ignorance and apathy than a site that treats sports like sports.

It's a quintessentially American view, though -- my pleasures are above reproach, while yours mark you as a cretin. Nobody who likes things you don't like could be smart!