Schools get cancelled because children are small and can’t retain heat as well and have to wait for one bus outside. The cold is obviously going to suck but if you layer correctly you can get to and from work no problem if you’re a healthy adult. 

Why would this not be for people that do it for moral reasons?

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I think it’s Peter King calling it risky, not Vrabel, based off the brackets. Vrabel is just saying coaches have gotten more conscious that there’s a decision to be made in terms of weighing relative risks.

What the hell was up with the ESPN crew taking flop-sweat lessons from Ben Wyatt?

“His 39 percent free-throw rate in the playoffs is in the range of a foul-drawer like DeMar DeRozan, and it indicates how he’s elevated his game in the playoffs”

The hardest word to spell is necessary 

“I’m gonna hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton, a center-right corporatist and war hawk whose record and allegiances, where they are not actively hostile to most of what I care about most deeply in my capacity as a citizen, at best only happen here and there upon a fitful, accidental, momentary quasi-agreement…

That’s reasonable, it may only be possible if paired with lottery reform or if limited to one player or maybe one player every few years or something.

Definitely less in place now. I’m talking about making players you draft totally exempt from max salaries and the salary cap. Right now you can go over the cap to resign your own players but that still ultimately restricts your ability to retain your own players either because of salary cap considerations or limiting…

Why not make players you draft exempt from the salary cap? If the idea is to protect small markets from losing players they draft, let them pay way more to home-grown players.

Context matters. Politics and policy affect people’s lives so ignoring reality is bad for the outcome. Sports are supposed to make people feel good so we should favor what feels good. Cool shit in sports is good because sports should be all cool shit. Most of the truthering is about close calls where the people…

Good news! Quoting from the decision:

Tripe and tripas are different. Tripe is stomach lining, tripas are intestines. Interestingly, they both are named for Jonathan Tripe, a 19th century British crazy person who was famous for feeding his guests used condoms.

I get the impulse behind this post, because I don’t think any group has done a worse job representing the interests of actual Cubans in Cuba than the older generation of Cuban refugees, so I don’t want to react angrily but this trend of Castro apologia is just sad and wrong. The older Cubans preoccupation with the…