Never underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion. I had a neighbor try to deny breaking into our storage area after we showed him the video we had of him doing it.

There's a simple reason most states don't have strict rules on what EBT cards can be used for: because it costs money to enforce them. Simple as that. The state would have to hire more people to audit EBT participants, and so on.

Good analysis. I would add two other obstacles: aesthetics and patience. I can build things with redstone, but I'm never satisfied with the results - it just looks crummy compared to the stuff these whiz kids are doing on YouTube. All my houses look like Soviet apartment blocks. Also, I can't imagine the amount of…

About 10-15 years ago, some premade CNN.com obituaries leaked onto the Internet. They're easy to find via Google. They're not as interesting as they used to be, because the web aesthetic is very out of date, and most of the people depicted have actually died since then.

I read and posted in #CrimingWhileWhite. Not long after, my feed was inundated with people saying "if you participated in #CrimingWhileWhite, you need to go read #AliveWhileBlack." So I think there was someeffort to yield the conversation to those who need to be heard on this issue.

No, it won't be. People try to scam retail stores all the time. Wal-Mart will just change their policy to not price-match re-seller ads from Amazon, educate their managers to watch out for them, write off the trivial amount of money they lost, and life will go on.

I figure Sid just overcame it as part of growing up, just like we all had to do with our various childhood traumas, and became an ordinary adult. He only saw the toys come to life that one time, and it'd be easy to chalk that up to a bad dream, allergic reaction, hallucination, etc. Not every character has to have a…

We wouldn't have to worry about anyone else catching it.

I once had a temp job answering phone calls for ESPN Fantasy Football. Every Tuesday was an endless string of stories like this. Here are some of the more brutal fantasy bad beats I remember:

It's official: nobody gives a fuck about the Jets.

This makes me wanna Cry.

I know it's been 30 years since the team moved from Baltimore, but "Indianapolis Colts" still sounds wrong to me. The word Colts should have Baltimore before it, in the sense that Yankees should have New York before it. It's one of those city-team name correlations that is so strong that any other pairing sounds like…

I wasn't sure about Wreck-It Ralph when it first came out, but that song sold me on it. Doesn't get any more authentic retro-arcade than a Buckner & Garcia song. I played the shit out of their Pac-Man Fever record when I was a kid (and yes, it was a record). Good times.

I'll never understand why market forces didn't kill Bleacher Report. As you said, it's an interface nightmare with shitty content. Yeah, it abuses click counts, but shouldn't advertisers have figured out by now that 10 million clicks on athlete girlfriend tits isn't really 10 million people seeing their ad? And they…

Definitely shock, but you can also see other emotions in the rapid series of gestures he makes. At first he celebrates the goal normally, with exuberance, then he stops as if the enormity of it just hit him, then he looks like he needs a few seconds to process it all. For want of a more technical term, it looked like…

I love that he included John Brooks' reaction to scoring a goal vs. Ghana. That was an amazing moment. You rarely see that kind of genuine emotional reaction anymore.

What stands out to me is that LeBron's primary motivation seems to be winning championships. I don't think shit has to hit the fan for him to change teams again, just for it to turn into another 2014 Finals situation where he's carrying the team on his back. All other things equal, he might prefer to play for his…

Yeah, that's what everyone said in 2010. "No, he's not going to change teams, that opt out is for other reasons." Caveat emptor.

LeBron's contract is only for two years. If LBJ opts out, Wiggins might become good enough to build a team around instead.