Three very important things that McDonald’s does right (for a fast food chain). Their food is super consistent, the service is actually fast, and they nearly always get my order right.

Yup. We went over to my sister-in-law’s place and their new 60" TV looked like garbage compared to our 7-year-old 42". I commented to my wife afterwards and she didn’t understand what I was talking about.

the fact that the NFL is a league in which one of its premier player’s best option for achieving longterm stability is to sit out games in his prime while waving goodbye to $855,529 every week does not speak very well of the way the NFL is constructed.

I said the Cubs were idiots when they acquired him. Apparently I am an idiot.

You seem healthy and well-adjusted.

It matters. A 5 year old girl won’t grow up. A father lost a daughter. A family lost their loved ones. Because this dude wanted to pay some chick to take her clothes off.

Asking a player during a scheduled interview (that I believe he gets paid for) a perfectly reasonable question is not at all like stuffing a microphone in someone’s face right after a tragedy. A sports journalist is absolutely correct to call Brady out on his scam artist trainer.

I have never understood why someone would care how another passenger looks as long as their skin is covered. (How another person smells is an entirely different thing, of course).

more books that address the modern teen experiences of constant online connection, helicopter parents, and daily life inside a neoliberal empire

I don’t understand how someone over the age of, say, 15, couldn’t at least have the self discipline to wait until he got home. (And I didn’t even sink to the level of an Arby’s bathroom when I was a teenager, for that matter).

Oh, you’re right...I think actually one of the other walkers not only had a girlfriend or wife at home, but she was pregnant. I had forgotten about that subplot. And if they want to put in a romantic subplot between two of the male walkers, I’m definitely cool with that (although I still don’t think the story needs it)…

Darvish was awful in 2018 before the injury. I don’t understand the Cubs fans/Chicago sports media who think this means anything for their chances in 2018. Montgomery is better than Darvish and they went out and got Hamels, so in theory they still have 5 starters to get them through the rest of the season and then…

It really is remarkable how many great lines there are in the movie.

I’m kind of amazed by how quickly I’ve developed a distaste for football. Three years ago I was sitting in front of the TV from noon to 10:30 and paying for Sunday Ticket to watch out-of-market games (and not just those of my favorite team). Last year I was still in three fantasy leagues and paying as much attention…

I loved it, and I think it could make for a good movie even though so much of it takes place in the protagonist’s head, but I’m kind of dreading the adaptation for two reasons. One is all of the people who are going to say that it’s a ripoff of the Hunger Games, even though it was written decades before. Two is that I…

Regarding MLB pace of play, watching the Little League World Series has made me realize what I hate the most about the major league game. It’s how much time there is between pitches. You watch these kids and they manage to get the ball back from the catcher, get the sign, take a breath, and throw another pitch. Boom. M…

I hate when people try to argue that a handicapped stall is akin to a handicapped parking space when the ratio of handicapped stalls to regular is nowhere near that of the ratio of handicapped spaces to regular. Lots of men’s rooms have one handicapped stall and only one or two regular stalls.

I have an iPhone 6 that’s three and a half years old, and according to the phone the battery health is still at 86%. The only reason I’m thinking about replacing it is that I was an idiot and bought the 16GB phone so I’m constantly running out of storage. If I had 64GB or more I would keep this phone indefinitely.

It was almost uncomfortable how far ESPN was going to avoid addressing the obvious nature of the injury. They didn’t show a replay until it was up for review whether the ball hit his bat first or directly hit him.

I never watched it before this year, but started watching toward the end of the regionals and have been DVRing every game of the World Series this year. Frankly I’m enjoying it more than I’ve enjoyed a professional sporting event in a long time, and I’ve narrowed it down to 3 main reasons: