Dearest WizeCrax,

In all seriousness, the one thing I found shocking about this comparison was that cheerleader skirts are now more conservative than they used to be. If the SI (Swimsuit) people were in charge they'd be painted on by now.

Wait, what? Maybe for a year or two. I've never heard Jared Allen, Justin Smith, JJ Watt, etc compared to Kearney

It's like wearing nothing at all!

Thank you, obliques is the word I was scrounging for.

Forget the arms. These muscles (whatever it is that's above your hipbone) are the real signs of putting in work. Those suckers only pop out if you're working your ass off. I had those as a college athlete and they've been on the side of a milk carton ever since (despite a workout routine likely on par with most…

I like the way you work it, Ted Ligety.

I don't think so... Shane is a skiing god, but the Slarve is completely different.

+1

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

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…