Man, give the Hip a chance. It's a sin they're not more popular. Definitely one of the best bands of the last 15 years in terms rock/blues. I say it's a sin because they could have broken America and had a #1 hit if they'd put their mind to it. It's a much more poetic, artistic, band than cracks top 4o nowadays, and…

Man, I don't want to reach that stage of life. Shaving is enough of a hassle as it is. You'll pry my electric razor out of my cold, dead hands. My shtick is a certain degree of stubble. I don't have kids or a desk job, where I am expected to be immaculately presented, but I'm not sure I'd want either if I have to…

You're not alone, but I would say it's naive to think discomfort over the concussion issue didn't factor into ESPN's decision. My guess is it's a combination of both ESPN having cold feet about partnering with Frontline(given ESPN's commercial relationship with the NFL) and something trivial about the production…

One don't need to say "you're wrong" to state an argument. People are able to navigate conversations without saying "I feel like" to avoid offending other people. If a dissenting point of view must be qualified with a phrase of this kind then good ol' I think is probably better than I feel like for the reasons stated…

I'm guessing it's because they believe human rights(notice the word human there; not American, not western) ought to transcend cultures and regional politics.

Not to get too heavy/political here, but I am a huge PBS supporter and I'm very disturbed by their pulling funding for Citizen Koch. They are supposed to be the last bastion of public television. Incorruptible. But that's exactly what happened. They can swear up and down they weren't intimidated by David Koch but the…

Any Boston Bruins fans read Jezebel? In the picture the guy on the left looks a lot like Milan Lucic and the guy on the right looks a lot like Chris Kelly. Both Bruins. It's uncanny how similar their faces look(not their bodies) if you know the players.

Geez, it really seems like people are exorcising some demons here. I'm all in favor. I don't think it's totally untrue, bitchface/seeming unapproachable, but it's only really true for a small minority of highly attractive people with an attitude/lack of self-awareness. Kinda attractive people aren't usually…

Is it an absolute fact Foley wasn't supposed to fall through the cage? Because if it hadn't been planned I'd assume Mark Calaway would have looked down shocked at Mick Foley and expected everything to be stopped. He reacted right away and climbed down. Might this just be WWE lore? I've never been a wrestling fan,…

If you're not familiar, when the NHL won it's hard cap in the lockout of '04 they didn't spell out the particulars. All it really stated was that the cap hit was the average of a salary over however many years. This did not factor in retirement, as its fatal flaw. So a whole lot of teams rushed to sign players to…

Ah man, I was looking through back stories, and this comment just begs for recognition. Albeit guilty, concussed, recognition.

I am not as young as you seem to think I am. The internet didn't exist as it does until the mid 2000's, and it makes a huge difference. It's transformed politics. That Columbus story was only written about in local papers and a few papers in Canada. If it happened today it'd be Deadspin's, Gawker's, Salon's,…

C'mon, man. You're wearing gear and your job is to pay attention and absorb the puck. That's quite a different thing from not paying attention at all in the stands and taking a puck to one's un-helmeted head. I remember when I was a kid my father created an ice rink behind our house in the winter. My older brother who…

Is that when Rask looked back over the boards and the commentators mentioned it? I'm guessing so. On CBC they said "the nets only cover so much" but that was at the end of the rink — you'd really think the nets would/should have worked. It's what they're designed for.

Don't you have that backwards? Perhaps I need to brush up on my LOTR lore, but Boromir was the one who couldn't control his temptation to take the ring from Frodo. Faramir kinda righted that wrong, in the wake of Boromir's death, establishing that the kingdoms of men could be trusted in the fellowship against Sauron.

Yeah, I'm not so familiar with Kotaku. I'm more a Gawker/Deadspin guy. I imagine there are nuances to each site(I've heard it's notoriously difficult to be followed on Jezebel) but the one thing that is consistent across all of them is the authors don't stick around very long to notice you. It's a job to them. They…

I'm exactly the same, especially on Deadspin. I tend to get around to reading things at night and when I do comment I usually reply to someone rather than starting my own thread. And I mainly stick to DUAN because the wit here is intimidating.

I'm still grey here but I've read about how it works from people who really ought to know over on Gawker.

Speaking of nuts, I was sure Deadspin would post on JP Arencibia's being dinged by a deflected pitch in today's Jays/Rangers marathon. The best part was the color guy's immediate, visceral reaction. First I was uncomfortable. Then I laughed. Then I was uncomfortable once again.

Don Cherry let slip after Ron MacLean pre-emptively tried to correct his pronunciation of Niklas Hjalmarsson that he practices names beforehand and doesn't need any help.