I almost can’t believe an 11-year-old anywhere can throw 73. It’s even harder for me to believe they’d let him do that from 46 feet. It’s even harder for me to believe an 11-year-old is hitting a ball with a (yeah it’s imperfect but still) speed equivalency of 96mph!

When I was a Majors (the little league division for…

Yes, spellcheck, I meant duck a basketball. Christ.

I can. but the correct answer is: that’s irrelevant, exactly as much as asking how many of can duck a basketball is.

Cheesequake State Park

“I am a gay man right now just without the physical act – that’s all.”

“As far as I know, I am not a gay man. Maybe I’ll have an awakening later in my life, which I’m sure will be wonderful and I’ll get to explore that part of the garden, but right now I’m secluded to my area, which is wonderful as well. I adore it, but a big concern was what right do I have to play this wonderful gay…

Wrong, since employees of United can hand out “buddy passes” all year and designate a single “travel buddy” each year, who can totally fly for free (fees and taxes only) all year. I know because my wife is her sister’s buddy, and she flies for next to nothing globally. $75 to Hawaii makes plenty of sense. Hell the two…

Unless you have specific knowledge of this guy’s ticket status which I haven’t seen, this isn’t necessarily true. Employees of United can designate a travel buddy once a year, hand out a few (I forget how many exactly) passes for free and reduced travel a year, and set people us as Standby passengers pretty much at…

Isn’t Trump proving the president is a completely useless position.

But I’m still confused why, during election season, he ended up not voting and not caring about his vote.

How does someone even board with an “improperly scanned” boarding pass? It’s kind of a simple yes/no situation with attendants standing there to directly oversee its success. Given some of the other ridiculous security theater in airports, this is an absurd failure.

Given the nonsense United mouth-farted after the Dao problem, I’m surprised Oscar Munoz himself isn’t personally meeting with the Yamauchi family to give them an apology and a check.

...and not sure about Mesa, AZ, but many cops aren’t allowed to carry them. I’m in SF, and people wonder why cops here don’t use Tazers, when we voted to make sure they couldn’t have them. Their overuse, especially given SF’s issue with the mentally ill, indicated to voters cops would be too quick to pull them,…

...and the problem with “conservatism” in this country is that every change is heard by them as an insult. The idea that maybe we can take a small insignificant step to not make “KKK” show up in big letters on a wall in a public space ought to be something we shrug off — hey sure I can understand that — not a dog…

Also: wondering why TF “KKK” is hanging at a baseball game is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, especially for a fan in Atlanta, given their racist past and, in the baseball world particularly, present.

backwards Ks when a batter is caught looking are awesome.

Flipside: the swastika had a millennia-plus-strong run as a symbol of peace and friendship etc., but we don’t really slap them on architecture and clothing anymore for very good reason...

Because, as I already said pretty clearly, the bad thing was done at very high levels over many years for the sake of a football team. Penn State administration literally decided that the rape of children wasn’t as important as the football team. Full stop. The school president, the school vice president, and the…

Everyone else is welcome to do the same. And CLE had the league’s highest payroll last year. And it’s not like big-name free agents are joining the Warriors this year, or hell except for Durant no big-name talent was added in any year of this run, they’re just paying their own guys.

in San Francisco, the buses do it on purpose and completely block the intersections, which is fun