. . . but even though I agree with the point the author was trying to make about Donovan McNabb's dismissiveness of Sprint Cup drivers as athletes, when she says that they analyze the movement of vehicles moving traveling at 200 miles/hour, and goes on, "That is light years faster than NFL sack artists J.J. Watt or Clay Mathews travel," I am done reading.
Can't we all agree not to use "light year" to describe anything other than a very large distance? Please? If what you're describing can't be converted to some outrageous number of feet, miles or microns - please note the lack of per hour, minute or second - you can't use light years, even though that astronomical distance unit appears to contain a unit of time.
I wish they'd had the awareness of human nature to call the damned distance something else, actually.
Oh, another misuse today that I sometimes see and always hate: "mother load" instead of lode. I know that mothers carry a heavy load, but that's not what the term means. This one wasn't from a professional writer, at least, but rather a mother.
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