Nice.

The issue, as you're certainly well aware, is that handguns, by their very design and every iota of the intent behind them, exponentially increase the lethality of a person. That's what they're designed to do, and they certainly do not discriminate between a mentally ill person and a (completely and totally fictional…

Great. +1

Jesus, this is spectacular. +1

This is hilarious.

Murder-suicide

Allagash White beer:

Love this.

Rich Nieuwenhuizen.

Love it.

He just can't bring the thunder the way he used to (uh, tonight's fight notwithstanding, as again, I'm not watching it). It was pretty dismaying how light-hitting he seemed in the Margarito rematch. He boxed very well and very courageously (which you'd expect), but his edge is just gone. Doesn't mean he can't be a…

I'm not watching the fights tonight (auxiliary streaming-the-fights laptop is... well, it's way over there and I'm sick and full of ice cream and mew mew mew), but damn if this didn't make me sad. For as admirably as Cotto fought in the Margarito rematch, you're exactly right: he's just not the same guy anymore. …

That second point is the key one. The Andre Ward of right now would disassemble Pavlik at any point in Pavlik's career. Too precise, too diverse, too technically proficient. Pavlik-of-today versus Ward-of-today should be perfunctory.

Ha!

Ha!

+1

You have no fucking idea how long I "paused" to respect the gravity of a tragedy. Shut up.

And you act like there's any remotely conceivable way in which a joke about Brady Quinn and Matt Cassel could harm any of those people.

No. Because mocking their suicide would be in poor taste. Which is why I didn't do that at all.

Actually, "yes," you fucking clown. And please believe me, they didn't give a fuck whether any complete and total strangers used it as an occasion to pivot and make a joke about something else altogether. Because they were dead.