Hopefully this helps (from a very strong skier, but not a racer):

DRAX HAS VLADMIR PUTINS FACE.

He released those texts himself. He's not afraid to have them public and, based on the limited information we have his parents did a damn good job of loving the kid. You really think he's not going to go to them now because Martin himself gave them to the investigators?

Amen. I wanted Evan Lysacek (sp?) to beat him in 2008, but I absolutely wanted him to bring the house down this year and retire with two olympic golds to go with his two silvers.

That or it was so subtle that I flat out missed it... in which case -1 for me.

-1 For blown "Peyton's neck" joke opportunity. It was right there!!

Soooo.... this has nothing to do what I said. I was talking about "American defeats Kwan" specifically. I think it's because Kwan was a brand name and Lipinski wasn't, hence the most informed title in 3 words possible was "American defeats Kwan." But hey don't let that get in your way.

YES YES YES YES

Yeah, I agree that it's not a majority. It's just hugely disproportionate as a percentage. And I do feel that the 50 billion people to live in the BC era pretty much are irrelevant because they had effectively no distributed media (across cultures), were generally illiterate, etc. That's why I think it's probable…

Oh I was aware. It was a nice little joke but it's pretty much run its course now so I'm going to ignore it and address the initial post, which seemed generally serious.

Fair enough. But that means you're probably checking out the wrong church. There are good ones out there, and more good ones than bad ones... I mean, Pope Francis is adored by the global secular and religious press basically because he's a reasonable and tolerant person... as are the vast majority of church type…

Of all humans ever to live, a massively disproportionate percentage were alive during or after WWII, meaning Hitler is way too low on the list. The population of the WORLD is estimated to have been sub-1 billion through the 17th century (pre industrial revolution). About 2.5 Billion people were alive during WWII and…

PS - I found my church literally by Googling it. And in the current era, a church's website will probably tell you a lot about its personality and that of the people who attend it.

Um, no. You can be famous and infamous, you know. They are not exclusive.

Game of Thrones' opening is awesome in that it has catchy music, cool visuals, AND (most importantly) educates you on the confusing-ass world you're about to observe (it's a moving map). It's brilliant.

I realize this is probably the Deadspin community's cup of tea, but there's a really easy place to make adult friends: church.

You miss my point. If I was someone who REALLY wanted, say, Tim Raines to get in, I could vote Raines up and vote Maddux down. Because then I increase the odds of getting Raines into the Deadspin ballot (Raines is +1 and I cancel out someone's Maddux vote, meaning maybe just maybe Deadspin votes for Raines and not…

This is the only time I have ever, in my life, seen Justin Smith - who is a country raised, absolute badass - look starstruck.

It wasn't me, but I'm sure it was either (a) people who said "He's gonna get in anyway, let's vote for someone else or (b) people who said "I really want [borderline player X] to get in, so I will vote down a shoo-in like Maddux and vote yes on my guy".

The point of that article is well taken but the numbers are misleading. Nobody save super investors like Yale or Harvard has gotten 8% annual returns over that period. in fact, the average investor from 200o to 2012 made 0% return in the stock market and minimal return in the bond market. If you're making 0% return…