Well, we are an import/export business — I’ll have to check with our sales department.

Yeah, and also the other ones weren’t shooting their mouths off to every TV camera they saw. Lochte doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on his BS story just to avoid the wrath of his mommy. If he didn’t keep doing that, it very well may have blown over.

This deserves way more stars, Cap’n.

I didn’t see any of the NBC coverage (or anything else about it other than this page) so I can’t speak to that, but I honestly don’t see anything in the above GIF of the exchange. Even after looking at the head-on picture below it (which makes it quite clear), I went back up to watch the GIF several times and still…

And Lochte was telling the truth that “they didn’t want to get in trouble”. What he failed to clarify was, he didn’t want to get in trouble with his mom. So he lied to her about how he lost all his money (maybe he tried to borrow some cash from her), and she blew it up into an international incident.

45 minutes from Ann Arbor, eh? Hopefully the stench isn’t too bad when the northerly winds are gusting.

GMAC holds your car’s title until you pay off your auto loan. And what happens when you pay back the money you owe to GMAC? They release the title to your car. Boom: You just paid ransom to GMAC.

JFC, you’re an idiot. The US owed them the money. They resisted payment for decades. As an ancillary part of a much larger deal killing their nukes program, the US agreed to pay the amount owed, and Iran agreed to release the prisoners. You can call it quid pro quo if you want, but that doesn’t make it ransom.

I’d guess that UNC already has an all-clear from SACSCOC, or otherwise is relatively comfortable that it won’t face retribution from the accrediting board.

Cauliflower — and Brussels sprouts, I might add — are great on the grill. Olive oil, S&P, and into a grill pan. Don’t have to worry about flipping each piece of veg, just toss it around like you would in a saute pan. Girl & the Goat in Chicago does an amazing roasted cauliflower with pickled peppers, pine nuts, and…

So who will be this year’s Central Florida? I’m torn between Purdue and Charlotte. Both would be painful to write about and both are equally inept.

You might want to try a splash of milk instead of water. Adds body rather than just dilutes the flavor. And yeah, s&p either when you scramble the eggs in a bowl, or immediately upon adding to the pan (I haven’t noticed a difference between the two options). Like anything else culinary, it’s (virtually) always better…

I knew exactly what joke you were trying to make, it’s just that it wasn’t funny because it didn’t work. Close but no cigar.

Short answer: They didn’t care if Silver was bluffing. As others have noted, the state gov’t is run largely by politicians outside of Charlotte, and Raleigh resents Charlotte’s growth and development. So the threat was meaningless to them, much like the boycotts by Springsteen and others.

You know that’s total BS, right?! HB2 does nothing to prevent pedophiles from entering bathrooms of the opposite sex (after all, it doesn’t pay for armed guards at bathroom doors checking genitalia). And if pedophilia were the real concern, what about all the same-sex pedophiles? Their child victims are still sitting…

And with the former Charlotte Mayor in the Governor’s chair, no less. He has stood by or helped the government in Raleigh (which, to be honest, is largely Republican and largely non-Charlotte) repeatedly screw over his old city (where he still has a home) ever since being elected. And for that, I’m glad he’ll likely…

Um, you did miss something. Earlier today, some website posted that WNBA players are being fined for wearing black warmup gear protesting the recent gun violence.

The NHL Hurricanes are in Raleigh, not Charlotte.

NCAA won’t step in, a lesson they learned from Penn State. As despicable as what happened in Waco is, it’s outside the scope of the NCAA. It’s a matter for the Feds (Title IX investigation) and local law enforcement (ha ha ha).

I don’t disagree that there is an element of self-fulfilling prophecy to it. But even in eras where 3rd-party candidates were not as marginalized as they are today, the best any has done is finish second in the POTUS race — and that was by a former two-term president (Teddy Roosevelt, 1912).