Ah yes, the need to better oneself by skipping classes. The very model of the student-athlete!

Really, your eyes should be filled with tears at the thought of all the soldiers the anthem is meant to honor, so you shouldn’t see anything at all!

If you like this, try Avalon. It’s the improved version of Resistance, and fixes most of the problems with Resistance.

One of the worst parts of the whole process is having a doctor ordering a test of some kind, then having to wait days to find out whether insurance will pay for that test (which would be prohibitively expensive otherwise).

I’ll be first in line to say that 24-hour coverage of anything is unnecessary, especially sports (the endless nattering leading up to the Super Bowl always used to drive me crazy back when I still watched sports).

Everyone, just stop watching the NFL. No good comes of supporting this (or any other) sports league.

You know what I hate? When I have to download an app to look at a beer menu. It’s not that hard to keep an up-to-date paper menu for your customers. But, if you’re going to put your menu online, then there’s no reason that it shouldn’t be updated regularly. It drives me nuts when they tell you which app their menu is…

Don’t forget the flipside of that, “the regular folks of this country” as meaning white Christians.

My guess would be that ‘in the jackpot’ more likely alludes to logging, since a jackpot is when a bunch of trees fall on top of each other, and it can be very dangerous to be in the jackpot and to try to cut them in such a way that they don’t fall on you and kill you.

Adding a comma makes it an appositive, but it’s an object complement, so the original headline was correct.

I call bullshit. If they want post-apocalyptic uniforms, they can’t just have vests; the batting gloves also need to be fingerless.

Where’s Gary fit?

“the kid jails were what caused me to get off.”

Maybe it’s a holdover from an earlier era. I’m assuming the film they have now is pretty high quality, but for decades it must have been pretty rough.

‘The Snake’ is a reworking of an ancient fable, found in such ancient literary descendants of Aesop as Babrius and Phaedrus: http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/176.htm

Why don’t these just go the way of the NCAA and have the dominant teams start paying the crappy teams ungodly amounts of money to come to down and get destroyed? If Alabama can shell out over a million bucks to pay some teams to come play them, surely Poggi could pay some area rivals a few grand.

I love it when a game is so compelling that it just draws people to it, even if they had no interest in watching. My best memory like this was Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, where people ended up lining up 6-7 deep on the sidewalk in front of the window of the bar I ended up watching it in. 

He’s still playing parodies on this tour. They’re just his so-called style parodies, where he parodies a band’s style or type of music in general, rather than a parody of one specific song.

Penguins. As a third grader, it was amazing to discover—and be able to report—that there is a type called the jackass penguin.

At this point, if you’re still watching football of any kind, you’re part of the problem. The NCAA and NFL won’t really do anything about this until it affects their bottom lines.