Even if it had been a 5-year-old, it still would not have been the manufacturer’s fault. Then the question would have been which adult had let the kid get into potentially deadly food.

Parents, flame away.

When did kids become nonstop vomit machines? Not just in cars but in general. I swear to God, my coworkers with young kids talk like their kids are puking every couple weeks, and I’m like, what’s wrong with them?

50 seems really pessimistic unless you’re dealing with traffic or including stretches on back roads. Assuming a 70 mph average travel speed, you could take a half hour break every three hours and still average 58.

I averaged 63 mph over 788 miles from upstate NY to WI last month (including passing through the Chicago area during evening rush hour) and it’s one of the crowning achievements of my life. No kids, obviously.

I hear somebody even mention the word “brand” in the context of a pro athlete, and I want to puke. Mike Trout is having the best season in MLB history. The only context in which it should matter what he does off the field is if he commits a crime or says something offensive, and he’s done neither.

There are definitely cases where the movie is better than the book, but I can’t think of one where the book was great and the movie was equally great or better. It’s certainly possible to make a great adaptation of a mediocre novel, but if you start with a great novel it’s going to be tough to live up to it.

It’s really well-adapted...I saw the movie several times before reading the book, and it’s like the movie is an almost perfectly condensed version of the book. There are some great lines of dialogue taken directly or nearly directly from the book, and the parts that are cut out entirely (like Grady’s relationship to…

I’ve always been fond of Seeing the Real You at Last.

I probably wouldn’t put either of them in my top five if I was ranking Dylan albums, but you know what? They might be #1 and #2 in terms of how many times I’ve listened to them.

It’s all just window dressing to cover tribal loyalty to her, because she was never taught, and never bothered to learn, that those words had any deeper meaning.

This is simultaneously an interesting discussion and completely irrelevant compared to the injustice that is amateurism.

If I make it to retirement age and my chief concern is that I should have saved more post-tax and less pre-tax, or vice versa, I’ll consider myself lucky. For most of us, just saving more in some type of a retirement account is what we should focus on.

Make fun of him all you want, and deservedly so, but I will always put Hawk’s home run call at the top of my list.

If you’re over the age of 13 or so, you have no business ever crying because you’re upset about sports. Crying either because of something in real life (the tragic death of an athlete or an athlete overcoming something) or because of your happiness about sports is okay (I don’t begrudge anyone for tearing up at a…

The Cubs can’t afford to throw away what remains of their farm system (or more likely, one or two young big-leaguers) on a pure rental. Especially when they’re still 1.5 games behind the Brewers even after playing really well in the last two weeks (and they still have 1.5 starting pitchers who are actually having good…

Some of my favorites over the years were the headlines without accompanying stories. Here are a few that stuck with me:

Admittedly, St. Louis is an almost too-perfect example of how a team can be toxic. But this is why I will never understand the people who think that athletes should always sign for the maximum amount of money and never consider anything else. I bet there are other teams that wanted Fowler for (relatively) slightly…

The average career length is irrelevant when you’re talking about a 14-year veteran who is arguably the best player in the league at the most important position in sports. (On a team that has only amplified his relative importance, I might add).

What kind of annual income, exactly? I think there’s a perception that famous chefs make a lot of money, but I don’t know that it’s true. I also have no idea what he made from his TV shows. I think people are assuming a high-six-figure or seven-figure income based on his fame, and I don’t know if that’s the case.