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You don't change the name of your football team because the Supreme Court says you have to. You do it because it's the right thing to do.

To restate: Facebook can ban, North Carolina can't.

When you're in charge, your opinion will be significantly more important.

Went hiking. I'm trying to train for my trip to Colorado in late August, so I've been doing the same hike three weekends in a row. Each time, I try to push it a little farther, and try to shorten my recovery time. This time, I ended up going over 8 miles for the day. By the time I was done, it was well after dark and…

Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End
Starship Troopers

I hate to sound like a lamestream media conspiracy theorist, but I can't believe people still take Nielsen ratings so seriously.

I'm starting to wonder if maybe Twitter isn't a gathering place for the highest quality people.

1: If I knew Picasso, I would buy myself a grey guitar and play.
2: Bought myself a grey guitar
Ergo: I knew Picasso

This week I started listening to Binge Mode, which is currently reviewing all 60 episodes of Game of Thrones, in advance of the season 7 premiere. It's hosted by two of the people from the After the Thrones program. Normally, I would go back and watch all 6 seasons, and then read the AVClub reviews, but at 35 minutes…

Finished I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman over the weekend. It's a collection of essays on the topics of evil and villainy. Although it was written a couple years before the prospect of a trump presidency was on anyone's radar, it provides a lot of insight into what kind of zeitgeist could allow that to…

I really liked Galapagos because it seemed so unique and inventive - which was interesting because Vonnegut always seemed unique and inventive, but this was unique and inventive in totally different ways than his other books.

There's a decent punk and/or alternative song hidden inside "Save the Best for Last", but I wouldn't trust those guys to find it.

That kinda implies that someone with equal or greater training could kick her ass. But that doesn't happen, and it's not even conceivable in the scope of the film's universe. There's never any doubt that Bill's not going to die. It's like when they say in sports "The Bears just wanted it more than the Vikings," but in…

If there's one good thing that's come from the trump administration, it's the example he's setting for future generations: you don't have to smoke crack to be a bad political leader.

I heard someone define the action genre once as movies where things that don't explode in real life create giant fireballs when they explode. That definition works most of the time, but I've got another one that I want to consider. It may not always be conscious or obvious, but the force of providence transcends the…

I've lived in Seattle, I think I could handle it.

Better than Will Smith's solo career.

I have definitely heard such things.

I've only known one, and he was pretty cool, aside from his pronunciation of the word "three".