I know social workers who tell me that they can provide all sorts of help and opportunities for people to do better for themselves, but in a lot of cases people make the wrong decisions. That’s not societies fault. That’s not my fault, not “the systems” fault. At the end of the day, people are fundamentally…

6 years? I’ve been here for 25. So I certainly have a right to whine. We had a great baseball team. Now we are middle of the road, at best. We had a great football team. Now Santa Clara has a crappy one. The Warriors are a Bay Area/Oakland team, *sometimes* adopted by SF and *maybe* may play in the city when if the…

Perhaps...but I wasn’t that impressed last night.

I watched the first match last night. As a San Francisco resident, I was looking at buying a jersey from the Overwatch site. But apparently we suck. Th 49ers suck, the Giants were terrible last year, our pro soccer time folded, and we apparently can’t play video games well either. Oh well.

I have been playing for about 4 months in only Quick Play and Arcade modes.

I clicked the article expecting to find The Bravery as the solution for life’s ills...I guess I was wrong.

Yes, and with all the allegations, it was only a matter of time before Another One Bites the...oh, fuck it, nevermind.

The Roman example has been explored in a number of books, including Eagle & Empire.

Actually, for me the most interesting alt history would have been if Ogedei Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, had not died of drinking too much in 1242, and was thius able to invade Western Europe. The world would be a vastly different place today, as there was nothing stopping them from conquering the west as they had…

This is what I have read on the specifics...

Thanks Samer! More Sumo news please! :-)

There’s more to the story than a guy getting crazy drunk. The Sumo he assaulted *disrespected* him by daring to answer his cell phone when he was being berated. Seriously.

The difference here is that he is Yokuzuna and more importantly, he is Mongolian. So I am not sure how that will affect either of those things. I don’t think he’ll be shamed for life, because he is sooooo good at sumo. But it will suck for his career to end this way.

Supposedly Sumo wrestlers drink a lot... I mean,t hese guys are huge, and you can imagine the amount of liquor it takes to get a 400lb guy tanked. Also, Harumafuji is a real nice guy in the ring, believe it or not. This is way out of character for him.

This pretty much describes Tarantino’s entire ouevre.

Yaaay, football!

Except that with certain politically charged issues, it’s virtually impossible to get laws changed like that. If cyclists are biking through stop signs on a regular basis and statistics end up showing that it is, by and large, safe, lawmakers are going to be much more likely to pass the law making it legal. They are…

Let’s not forget the amazingly family-friendly Apocalypto.

I gleefully break stop sign laws all the time on my bike. Stop signs were made for drivers; in many cases vehicle laws were made without considering how those laws would affect cyclists, because we live in such a car-heavy culture.

The paperclip industry? They have nothing on the folks working in sugar refineries, lemme tell ya.