Counter argument: people are terrible and I don’t want to be around them while eating/living generally.

Kyrie is just a big Joe Mande fan.

Kyrie is just a big Joe Mande fan.

The latter is one of my favorite things about Speed. Virtually everybody in that movie is competent and well-meaning (well, Dennis Hopper isn’t well-meaning). Hell, even the guy who shoots the bus driver is basically just a sniveling kid.

It occurred to me the other day that the “Shaka, when the walls fell” episode of Star Trek was totally prescient, except it was gaping Internet anuses, not important historical events that will make it difficult for aliens to comprehend our communications.

Their voters. Trump would salt the earth if removed from office and outright demand his slavish base stay home in 2018 and beyond.

Heh, if there’s two things the Patriots are known for it’s being the best team in football and complaining people are biased against them.

She’s on the shortlist for Press Secretary.

She’s on the shortlist for Press Secretary.

This is good policy; I think people are too prone to see positive reinforcement as automatically spoiling. Sure, you can force your kids to eat something, but I can say definitively that I never once developed a taste for a food by being forced to eat it, and isn’t that kind of the purpose?

Add fine art to the list and I’m right there with you. I can usually nail at least 60-70% of Jeopardy categories watching at home, but I have a friend who actually competed in the Ken Jennings era, so I have no illusions that knowing the answers is even half the battle. I’m sure I’d choke bad on the buzzer.

I liked the order. “If I score two touchdowns today, obviously I’m going to want to participate in today’s historic protest. If I score only one touchdown, obviously I’ve got to do the dog-peeing routine.”

Ha, I had no idea she was in on that egregious MMA Santos - Phan decision too.

And next week’s card is headlined by inconsistent but still top-10 LHW Ovince St. Preux against Yushin Okami, several bouts removed from the UFC and going two classes above his current weight to take the fight on a week’s notice. Yep, everything is going fine with the UFC, no problems here.

The boy ain’t right.

Really a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t quite sold on it after the pilot with my biggest question mark being whether it was going to be too light for the subject matter, a concern immediately allayed by the second episode plot involving all the corpses of the people who didn’t survive the crash washing up on shore.

I think the scenario where MLB could conceivably block it isn’t the one where he’s a star like Cutch or Bumgarner but one where he’s slower to adjust and finishes with an average or even below-average season. With the possibility that any handshake agreement might be voided by the league at that point there’s…

I think the scenario where MLB could conceivably block it isn’t the one where he’s a star like Cutch or Bumgarner but one where he’s slower to adjust and finishes with an average or even below-average season. With the possibility that any handshake agreement might be voided at that point there’s definitely additional…

Yeah, the last thing Major League Baseball wants in the playoffs is puny media markets like Los Angeles.