As a former pack a day smoker, I can’t really comprehend how people smoke multiples and function. I woke up feeling like shit every day and usually felt like shit at the end of the day. Maybe 40 isn’t that much worse than 20? 

Netflix Blu-Ray subscription, lots of weed, Pacific Coast, solitude, a Kindle - that’s how you enjoy a year-long sabbatical. Or how I would enjoy a year-long sabbatical.

The liability is that he goes out on the court and dies - whether you think it’s a case or not, someone’s getting sued and the PR for the league/team would be dreadful.

Teams take out insurance on contracts in case of things like medical retirement (covering salary owed) - is someone going to insure the contract of a…

You misread - I said his contracts are uninsurable. Teams take out insurance on contracts to cover them if a player is forced to retire for medical reasons (or... dies) - given Austin’s known issues and previous inability to get medically cleared, that insurance would either be impossible to get or prohibitively…

Is it exaggerating his condition when his doctor describes it as a risk and regularly monitors his heart?

I would think it’s more likely that the NBA doesn’t think it could risk liability and his contracts would be uninsurable.

I dunno, they could be FC Dallas and have their stadium in the middle of nowhere. 

I started playing rotisserie baseball when I was 10 because my dad had been running leagues since the mid ‘80s - word to Bobby Thigpen and Cecil Fielder for helping me crush grown men and buy my own Nintendo. Football followed the same year. From that point on I averaged three baseball leagues and four football…

Never heard of jim webb

Booker would be the lobbyist stooge there, McRaven is the natsec ghoul. Obama-Trump voters are a red herring, low turnout and an uninspired base swung the election. It’s almost like running people who don’t offer a positive vision of the future and a path to making material improvements in peoples’ daily lives doesn’t…

LOL natsec ghoul/lobbyist stooge 2020 is a good way to repeat 2000, if you’re lucky.

Carries a lot of weight... doing what?

I have a Colorado, my previous truck was a 2008 quad cab Ram 1500 - they’re almost the same length but the difference in width completely changes how they drive (and park) in the city.

All football coaches at the college level and up are fascist goons. Probably all of them at the high school level and up... and frankly, all the way down to Pee Wee it’s mostly the dads who wish they could be cops to keep ‘those people’ in line.

My dad was from San Francisco and I dreamed of having the money to move there one day and when I took trips there in the early-mid ‘00s I still held on to that dream. City Lights and AT&T Park and wandering through the Mission and etc..

Then I visited it post-Web 2.0 boom when hotel room rates had tripled and basically…

Sure you did.

... people wouldn’t pay the actual cost of an Uber ride. If they would, rideshare companies would charge it. Uber’s value proposition requires that they be cheap enough that driving yourself isn’t worth it (in most of the country) and in areas well-served by taxis that they be cheaper than those.

The only way to…

Force Uber to pay a living base wage, classify their drivers as employees, and limit the number of cars deployed.

It is such an incredibly dark view of humanity to believe that the only reason people do anything is that they face the alternative of dying in a ditch.

Ugh, looks too much like their godforsaken sedan.

Is that really what this is? DSA members in NY are going to vote for Nixon, guaranteed - the fundamental question is whether they should, as an organization, endorse non-members. This isn’t a single interest group (say, reproductive rights) that can endorse the candidate with the strongest record/policy line…