“Cheating” tends to imply doing something with someone else. Hiding an addiction, doing something solo that your partner would not approve of is more along the lines of “lying.” Of course, some lies are worse than others. Lying about going to Las Vegas and blowing all of your money on gambling is probably worse than…

From the numbers I’m seeing, a first rounder is 2 to 4 times more likely to make it to a Pro Bowl as a first rounder than a fifth rounder. That still leads me to believe 5 fifth rounders is the better deal.

Oh, it definitely is. I’m not trying to minimize the suffering of parents with missing/dead children.

I look at it more as playing the odds. The college game is very different from the pro game. The odds that a person will easily transition from one to the other without needing at least a portion of a full season to get acclimated are low. By putting all of your eggs in one basket, especially picking first overall,…

The question wasn’t so much about first rounders but first over-all picks. There is a lot of hype and expectation for someone picked first oin a draft, and very rarely do they live up to it. You also have to look at the current CBA where first rounders get paid quite a bit more than 5th rounders, so you’re gambling a…

I wasn’t thinking of trading them to get out of the fifth round, maybe into the bottom of the fourth, but more about just moving to where need and value meet within the round. Most teams are willing to move around the lower rounds.

That’s even riskier. If you pick someone else, the fans and the media are going to go crazy. If that pick doesn’t pan out, you’ll be gone before the end of the season. If you get it right, you’ll be hailed as a genius, but your pick will be measured against the one everyone else agreed on until one or both of them…

I take the five fifth round picks. Picking first overall is a terrible position. There is always a consensus choice for who should be first (maybe two players who vie for the spot), so you have to choose them, but if they bomb (and recent history has shown that to be a distinct possibility) it’s all your fault and…

Yeah, parents definitely have to know their kid and know what they can be trusted to do on their own, and 4 is definitely too young, no matter how “mature” the kid seems. There should be a ramp up of just how far and how unsupervised you let your kid be from playing alone in another room in your house, to playing…

That second one sounds a lot like sleep paralysis. I had a similar experience when I was in college. I was sleeping in my bed in my apartment, but I started hearing what I was sure was a dog-looking demon outside my door. (I’m not sure how I knew what it looked like other than the fact that it wasn’t real and was all…

My dad has a ghost story from when he was a kid, but I’ve forgotten much of the details, so I’ll not bother posting it. I also had an experience with sleep paralysis that creeped me out for at least the day, but knowing what it was, it’s not really much of a story.

On the one hand, “free-range kids” is just a new term for what basically all parents did in the 80s: let their kids play outside, go to the park, run around with friends without a parent hovering over them all day. I remember riding all around town on my bike before I was 10. Child abductions are actually quite a bit…

That’s probably it, right there. He was blowing up, was given a lead in a movie that was hoped to be huge...and it flopped. Now, that was probably not due to him or his acting (I don’t know, didn’t bother to see it) but he will share some of the blame, there will be a bit of a stink around him, and he will be offered…

Very true. You have to be casual about leaving seeming evidence of your good deeds, because drawing too much attention to it is suspicious in and of itself.

How am I being a bad person? In either case, someone vile is smug, so yeah, I’d rather have something good happen for me as well as an asshole getting to be smug rather than have something vile happen and someone vile get to be smug.

I couldn’t care less about baseball or basketball, so I never interacted with Yankees fans or Lakers fans in any meaningful way. But two of the the three NFL teams I absolutely hate are the Patriots and the Cowboys. I’d be hard pressed to answer which is worse, but because the Pats fans are “now” and I’m aware of what…

Awesome, a reply of SB 45? I like it.

My wife is a clean person. If we set the dinner table with a fork and a spoon for everyone, and I never so much as touch the spoon, it still goes in the dishwasher because it was taken out of the drawer.

Not if you make it a habit to just always toss the receipt as you walk away from the counter. I never keep those things. In fact, if they ask me if I want one, I just say no and leave it at that.

I’m a Packers fan, I’ll take a smug Goodell any time if the Packers win. Also, the Patriots are one of three teams I actively loathe, so again, I’d take a smug Goodell any time if the Patriots don’t even get to play.