So just to clarify, up here in the CFL you can challenge for not just DPI, but also illegal contact and OPI (but for some reason not defensive holding) as well as for roughing the passer, and you can challenge both situations where a penalty was called and when it wasn’t. From my experience, this rule has done a great…

Soon after I was born, my parents bought a minivan. It was used, but low-mileage, about a year old. Beautiful Ford Aerostar Eddie Bauer edition, two tone paint job, very 80's looking light brown cloth interior. They drove it for years and years, put a ton of hard miles on it; by the end it was totally trashed, inside…

Found this one pretty interesting. In it, Colin Campbell speculates as to what is causing the “CONCUSSION EPIDEMIC” (bold all-caps his). Of his 7 theories, the one he goes into the most detail on is that players are at fault for putting themselves in positions to take a big hit, and that they are staying down trying…

I think it’s just a predictably British outcome. Like many of the UK’s most famous pop-culture properties (See: Who, Doctor and Python, Monty), Harry Potter is inexorably rooted in British-ness. Hereditary class/nobility, Public schools, the legacy of both the colonial era and WWII (and in particular the “stiff upper…

Totally agreed with your second point. In my mind the biggest problem with (the five episode I’ve watched so far) is space; by which I mean both room in the script for organic character/plot development to occur and physical space in the world they’ve built. This is a problem for a lot of adaptations, you only have so…

I nominate Mike Carey’s Lock of the Week as replacement

If things shake out the way you expect for Best Picture, with Fury Road, The Martian, and Star Wars (if it’s any good) all on the outside looking in, then I predict that this is the last year for the expanded BP category. Those kinds of films were what they hoped to include when they allowed more than 5 nominees, and…

That rule is in their specifically to deal with overthrows into the stands. While the “right” thing probably happened with Odor’s run being counted, since time never should have been called in the first place, allowing reversal of dead-ball calls and subsequently assigning runners to where they “should” be is a tricky…

I think you’re reading too much into this. I’m sure Warner would be thrilled to keep Fury Road in the Best Picture conversation, but realistically this is a way to keep it in voters’ minds for the technical category as well as to bang the drum a bit for the two major Oscar nominations it actually could have a shot at,…

“an app designer [who] teams up with a young pastry chef who has just discovered that she is destined to be guardian of a mythological realm that can be accessed through a portal in an old Savannah mansion”

It’s not goodwill he’s trying to earn, it’s a bargaining chip. The Seahawks aren’t as bad as an 0-2 record suggests, and with or without Chancellor they will improve from here. It’s a good position to have when you can say “hey, without me you were 0-2 but with me you were 9-5 or 10-4 or whatever”.

This is good news for unions/the labour movement. I would trace the decline of the public respect for unions to the sectors they historically represent, and the fights they have taken on. The original union heyday pushed for safe workplaces and fair compensation in dangerous and underregulated industries; the…

I prefer to imagine this whole thing was the result of a series of confused exchanges with a reporter.

Thing is though, in the comics it wasn't "sexual violence" in the typical sense. Rapey? Absolutely. But not the "first thing you think of" type situation based on the hints dropped (which was honestly the brilliance of all of it).

Well said, but a couple of things I would point out. Hydro, especially large hydro, is often used in a"peaker" or grid balancing type role, since it ramps up or down essentially instantaneously (look for example out how the Pacific Northwest integrates the amount of wind power it does). Also, I'm not sure what kind of…

I so whole-heartedly disagree about the garlic thing. Generally I'm all into fresh veggies (with the exception of keeping a can or two of diced tomatoes on hand for emergencies or sauces), but the pre-peeled vacuum-packed garlic is absolutely the way to go. You can get like 50 cloves of it for a buck, and it saves you…

I work for a department of the federal government.

Well, there are actually a ton of very vague constitutional questions about who has the authority to really make Northern Gateway happen. Blame s.91/92, unresolved land claims, CEAA delegation, and a whole other host of things. All that being said, if Christ Clark keeps reading the tea leaves and sees broad public…

And the show has absolutely earned that suspense. Even last episode, they gave themselves an "out" with the missile, and for a moment it seemed like Lexa and Clarke would go track down the spotter. Nooope not so much.

Only if you're the help defender. If you're in man d and someone's posted up on you a charge can be called.