In the mid-80’s, a book called “Modern Primitives” came out. It featured a miraculous style of tattooing, bold and sinuous and, to me, beautiful. Its major exponent was Leo Zulueta. I was determined to find this magician, and get my first tattoo from him. In 1989, I found him, in a strip mall in Garden Grove,…

Value of FC Dallas - $100 million. Value of Dallas Cowboys - $4 billion. So, in a U.S. website, I’d expect something like, 40 times more football coverage (obviously this is the most approximate of measures) than soccer. Soccer is, indeed, very popular, in Europe, South America, etc. It is much less popular here in…

This is not meant to be snide, but there are two stories about baseball right now on Deadspin’s front page, two about football (one about a mascot), and three about soccer. I often see what seems like a lot of soccer stories on the front page, compared to other sports that I think of as more popular in the U.S. So I’m…

Yes, that’s what I’m saying. Come the fuck on. I’ve heard her - more than once - fail to praise her victorious opponent. Even today, she says, “she played the best tennis of her life,” which is pretty much saying, “what a strange anomaly,” rather than giving credit. But guess what? Just because I’ve noted - in the…

You can love someone’s play without paying too much attention to their non-play. I’ll presume you listen carefully to her, and are telling me she does credit her opponents. Good to hear!

I don’t get the willingness of the Gawker Empire to forgo a unified voice. The Times doesn’t have Dargis and Scott offer counterpoint on movies.

I love Serena. One of history’s great athletes. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed her take a loss, however, without making some sort of injury excuse. She never just says, “I got beat.” Maybe today?

Berman is a U.S. District Court Judge, not circuit court. That’s at the federal appellate level.

I could have given voice to the voiceless. Spoken for the trees, for the snow leopards, for the downtrodden. I chose to speak for the Houston Texans.

Gonna sit here a while and count all the “Just Do It” jokes. Errbody real funny.

There’s always an argument, right? I’m sure paging through Wright & Miller would bring up something plausible. Anyway, I’m sure the judge knew what he was doing, I’m just surprised.

I’ll stop after this, as I’m just shooting from the hip, but it’s not a jurisdiction question. The District of Minnesota has jurisdiction. This is a venue issue. I would expect arguments on proper venue, as “first to file” is not an absolute rule. Note that I’m not saying the court acted improperly (I’m sure it knows…

I disagree that they do so “routinely,” but to the extent that happens sua sponte, it’s presumably for a facial lack of jurisdiction. Here, the court has jurisdiction. Transfer is not typically mandatory, it is discretionary. Accordingly, I’d expect the court to hear arguments.

Seems odd that this happened so quickly. I would have guessed an order to show cause would have issued first, rather than what appears to be a transfer on the court’s own motion.

Please tell me you understand there’s a difference between government officials killing people and people walking the streets killing people. But hey, just in case: the deaths of black teens at the hands of other black teens is a source of great concern, but it doesn’t have the same tenor as those deaths coming at the…

It’s unsettling. I think of myself as a sense-of-humor-haver, a thing-getter, and subtlety-catcher, as well as a Michael-Schur-appreciator, but I am totally unmoved by this.

Grierson on one side, Juzwiak on the other. I don’t know what to think! Imagine if NYT had Scott and Dargis opining on the same films.

It’s a cross between Maggie Simpson and her baby enemy.

Yeah, I know why seeding occurs, but the line of argument the writer follows seems to be that “the hand of man” created this arrangement. That’s always true. It’s “rigged,” to use his words, either way. He just wants it rigged differently.

How is that not putting a thumb on the scales? “We’ll do our best to make it as easy for you as possible for as long as possible.” Seeding is the opposite of random.