Duke fan here - this is excellent analysis (would love to see more of this kind of thing on deadspin) and accords with what we’ve been seeing this year. It’s been a hell of a lot of fun to watch, but it’s clear there’s no guarantees of anything for exactly the reasons you outline above. I’ve always figured it all…

Seconded. 

So Apple will be like a cable company essentially, in that you pay them to have digital *subscription* access to a bunch of news “channels”, but *on top of that*, the internet providers will be charging us for the literal cable access, and thanks to getting rid of net neutrality, they’ll *also* be able to slow down…

Agreed! This is the one we got - it’s great and on sale:

Agreed! This is the one we got - it’s great and on sale:

My husband picked this one out (currently on sale - read the reviews!) for our new backyard and I was skeptical, but the other commenter was right - once you go thumb control instead of trigger handle, you never go back. We still have a trigger handle in the front yard, and it’s always a letdown. (We pair it the Orbit…

My husband picked this one out (currently on sale - read the reviews!) for our new backyard and I was skeptical, but…

lol

Related: “Why do Pedants pedant?”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/may/30/why-do-pedants-pedant

There’s a rare pleasure right now in sharing a sense of awe and celebration over Zion that cuts across team loyalties like nothing else I’ve seen. Watching his college career together in real time feels like a piece of incredible luck and weirdly unifying because he’s just so damn undeniable. There’s not really a…

The ACC’s 3 this year ties the record set by the Big East getting 3 in 2009.

But if employees had healthcare, they would be able to leave jobs that don’t treat them well. By making the job the determining factor of whether they or their family suffer needlessly or even die, the employers hold all the cards and can treat employees as shitty as they want - it tilts the job market to the…

Re: “He’s too old.” I keep seeing this argument and don’t understand what outcome it is we’re supposed to be afraid of? Is it that he’ll die? Like, so what if he does? What is the nightmare scenario that commences when we get, say, only two years of the president promoting the best policies and political ideology of…

The usual.

WOW - that is excellent news I missed- thank you! Also, I should never be surprised that something so momentous goes largely ignored in our daily national media shitshow, but here we are.

There’s only a few things I think are worth having to be in Chapel Hill for, but Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen drive-thru for breakfast is definitely one of them. The fried chicken biscuit is the realest of real deal, if you ever happen to be there.

It’s not only, and maybe not even primarily, that “anti-sex-trafficking stings are in fact moralistic anti-sex-work stings.” They’re also fundraisers for the police departments via civil asset forfeiture. Here’s an article from Reason in 2015 that makes that case, called “Sex Work and Civil Asset Forfeiture…

excellent point

The Best Restaurant in DC is... on a plane with Amy Klobuchar!

Why would we call it anything else? Magnifique.

Don’t forget about Rooney Mara! Poor thing is not only a millionaire movie star but also scion of not one, but two mega millionaire NFL-owning families, Rooney on mom’s side (founders of Steelers) and Mara on dad’s side (founders of Giants). She appears at every event in a gown that costs more than my car (hell, her…