Back in August, Malcolm Gladwell must have read "Bringing Down the Dogmen" and found himself wondering:

How different are dogfighting and football?

On a not-unrelated side note, David Segal recently observed:

As soon as you dig beneath the surface, the similarities between talk radio and gangsta rap are nothing short of uncanny.

After presenting a litany of evidence about the inherent inhumanity of American football, Gladwell concludes:

What football must confront, in the end, is not just the problem of injuries or scientific findings. It is the fact that there is something profoundly awry in the relationship between the players and the game.

Two from Robert McNamara:

Rationality will not save us.

You can't change human nature.

Michael Tomasello:

Human beings do not like to think of themselves as animals.

Skip Hollandsworth:

Dogmen view their fighting pit bulls as nothing less than spectacularly trained athletes.

Winston Churchill:

Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?