They are better than good.

The Police were great. “Synchronicity II” was awful, yes. But on a whole, they were awesome. Lifetime pass granted.

That John Kerry actually won Ohio, but a Karl Rove–led* technological coup gave it to Bush.

I want to root for Hoiberg, and maybe he’s better than we give him credit for. But when I look at the Bulls now, I see a team that probably missed its window — they’re too old, slow, and injury-riddled to play an uptempo game (if indeed that’s what Fred wants to do). To my mind, they should trade everyone they can,…

I'm not convinced there is a Hoiberg system. I'd like to think he's got offensive plan that's going to click once he gets the right players, but no one is happy, Mirotic is sinking like a bearded stone, and I just don't see a lot of continuity. Am I missing something?

I haven’t heard anything bad about Paul George — maybe I don’t want to know...

It’s a weird dynamic, and you can see why it’s reached this point. It doesn’t do shit for Clooney to be on the cover of Esquire anymore, unless it’s to drum up publicity for some new movie. (And how much does that help, anyway?) They need him much more than he needs them now.

Vosges Chocolate in Chicago FTW.

That’s the point of the article: they can’t vote them out. It doesn’t matter who gets elected — the owners will find some way around that. It’s naive to put it on “cities.” It’s all on the owners to look inside themselves and say, “Hey, I’ve got a fucking cash cow here, maybe I shouldn’t be so rapacious in bleeding…

You’re acting like “greed” and “business” are separate things. Because they’re different words doesn’t mean they’re not completely identical in this case. I completely disagree that “They’d be terrible at their chosen field if they took an option that was less economical.” There is a certain element of — oh, I dunno —…

Graceful response! Well done.

Is there a Popeye’s near North & Clybourn?

Yeah, that was one of the many reasons I didn’t buy it. Also there was, you know, nothing physically tying him to the murder — unlike Jay, a complete pathological liar, who had many ties to actual evidence.

This kind of bullshit is so transparent and ludicrous—someone like Kroenke must just see the public as mindless lemmings, paying absurd amounts for something that’s just an ego boost for him. The blatant contempt he clearly has for Rams fans blows me away.

But hey, maybe someday you’ll suck a little less. Chin up, slugger!

Man, you fuckin’ suck!

Cool — thanks for the tip!

Not feeling it so far. What made the first one special was that it was a murder case that no one could figure out.* They could parse it down to the most minute detail — was there a payphone at Best Buy? Which cellphone tower got which ping? — and they still couldn’t solve it. It was like Rashomon, in that people came…

Was never really a STP fan, and Scott Weiland never really interested me. So I read about his death and was like, “Ehh, that’s unfortunate.”

The MVP of the Pumpkins was Jimmy Chamberlain.