“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

This feels really icky and exploitative regardless of his other work. Sorry. And, there is really no way to tell if it was this or something else on the application that got him accepted, and it’s many times more likely that it was something else.

In this tournament, a lot of teams who got to the tournament — and to the later rounds — by playing very disciplined ball, suddenly seemed to have a moment when they realized they were playing over their heads and from that point on they just couldn’t do anything right. Inexperience at being on the biggest stage, I…

They also were unable to score for like 8 and a half minutes before that. They were terrible tonight. Do they even know how to run plays or pass the ball? I swear every possession they had involved some combination of shooting with 20 second left on the shot clock, driving into the paint despite two UNC big men who…

I spent my entire weekend calling in rules violations to the LPGA, so it was nice being able to take this game off. Good job refs.

Gonna be a dick here, but it wasn’t the late rebounds that lost the game. It was the complete lack of stopping Kennedy Meeks (also mostly his job)...

That is good indeed. It’s too bad his female passenger couldn’t have her permanent scars and ruined youth dismissed.

Relevant: I once saw Mason Plumlee drop spinach dip all over his sweatpants at a bar in Portland.

I will never not be amazed that the Blazers convinced the Nuggets that they needed to sweeten the Nurkic pot with a first-rounder to get Mason Plumlee, who, btw, had 0 points on 0-4 shooting in 16 minutes off the bench tonight.

When I happened upon Bolson, I was really torn. He’s an obvious caricature and I wasn’t sure it was a positive one. After thinking about it. There are positive takeaways there. Maybe he’s gay. Maybe he just likes pink. Either way, he’s definitely comfortable in his own skin. He’s effeminate with a traditionally manly…

Well holy shit. BBL, off to cry.

Muppets - Muppets are both a group (aka The Muppets) and a category...so Fraggles, Sesame St, Muppets etc.. are all muppets but not necessarily Muppets...if you get my drift.

Bert and Ernie are muppets, not Muppets. Any puppet that came out of Jim Henson’s workshop is a muppet, but only those appearing on the Muppet Show are proper noun Muppets. It’s not a hard distinction, folks.

I strongly support your interest in living in the country and becoming some sort of bumpkin/redneck food wizard. BUT, and this is an important but, you’re going to need to invest in some redneck tools of the trade. One of these should be a busted-ass POS pickup, that smells more like dog/fish/deer than anything…

I think living through an intensely likeable team that was always destined to lose to a legendary Jordan team gives one a more generous approach to the futility of wanting things. Things fall apart. Like the Bard once said, “The streets don’t change but maybe the names. I ain’t got time for the pain.”

I was referring to Biyombo!

I respectfully disagree. My daughter and I get given tickets to games multiple times a year by people who don’t want to go, we eat snacks, we have a chance of winning 75% of the games we go to, we win slightly less than half of them, it’s a pretty good childhood. Also, I enjoy getting too excited about…

Thank you for not including Portland. I was ready with my “No one except people rooting for the eventual champion will be as happy about anything this year as I am about acquiring a pretty good center out of nowhere.” argument, but I didn’t need to. Still, allow me to argue that no one in Cleveland, San Francisco or…

I absolutely love the way this thread is hijacked by people complaining about the sportscasters for the losing team not showing enough enthusiasm for an illegal shot from out of bounds that put their team away. Yeah.

Spotted late last nite during the Dunedin Highlanders v Auckland Blues rugby match from Auckland’s Eden Park: