Completely agreed, without caveat.

My institution missed out on a chance to participate in this, as we’re on spring break this week (and we’re a college, so our “walkout” participation would’ve been markedly different than a public K-12 school), but any educator who seeks to restrain their students from exercising…

This is my favorite Renton-related Almost Live comment:

12th man hates 13th amendment.

“Five cheeses?! Look at Mr. Queen of England ova here! You get one pack of Kraft singles and an old sock that you let sit in a box of Bisquick to thicken it up. Anything more and you just wastin’ cheese and time.”
- Jim Tomsula

It’s less the “weakness” stigma that I have the problem with and more the attitude that anti-depressants are just “happy pills” for people that can’t deal with life’s issues like everyone else.

Good on him for raising awareness. While we’re at it, we should also acknowledge how depressing the Mariners are.

I got so sick of the Vonn stuff - so much hype and so overdone. Every moment of quasi dead air was filled with some sort of Vonn tribute video and between these were the commercials featuring Vonn hawking something.

This is a major pet peeve of mine during the games. The entire woman’s alpine skiing broadcasts, mens snowboarding half-pipe, and woman’s snowboarding half-pipe is spent discussing 1 American in each event. If Vonn’s skiing...she’s all they discuss. If Schiffren is skiing she’s the topic. Same for Shaun White and…

This isn’t his fault, but I got really annoyed at the part where they showed the run of the woman who went immediately after Vonn, and then as soon as she was done they cut to a slow-mo replay... of Vonn’s run. Fuck that!

You know, he’s ok. He’s really not doing anything special. He’s got a good voice, but not a great one, not the best we’ve heard. It’s just, these early conditions set up to make it much easier to quarter-ass your way through an analyst gig that you really don’t deserve.

counterpoint: the stuffed tiger is adorable and i want one

It was complete drivel talking about how beautiful things were. They gave nothing of substance that expanded the performance. They mostly took away making it impossible to hear the music, talking or singing.

When the Olympics roll around I always remind people to find the CBC or BBC feeds if they can.

They also spent a large portion of the time introducing OTHER countries talking about American athletes which was incredibly annoying. Oh here’s Ghana? Rather than tell you about their single athlete or anything interesting about the country, let us tell you AGAIN that America has one athlete born in Ghana.

Im guessing the precedent is perhaps the Cbc’s Superior coverage where they, gasp, don’t act like there’s only one country in attendance... Socialism!

There was no need for that first half hour. I was really annoyed and kept switching back and forth with other shows hoping for them to start the dam program but it just kept going. And the constant talking during the ceremony just seems to talk down to the audience, like we can’t pick up the themes unless they…

You can’t play to not lose, especially in the Super Bowl. Those playcalls were gutsy, ingenious, bold, and they made the difference.

Tom Brady: somehow the one white guy on the Pats who *can’t* catch a pass

Well most, if not all, teams have sections of their support that are prone to “unsavoury” behavior, but when it’s coming from the board, then it’s actually just depressing more than anything.

The same West Ham whose supporters like to mimic gas chamber noises when they play Spurs and made slant eye gestures at Son Heung-Min? Shocked, I tells ya.