I’ll continue complaining about the offerings on Netflix (their originals are all USA Network-level crap, the movie selection is thin) but it’s free with my cell phone service and I’ll keep paying for the Criterion service because I’m Cultured. Then I’ll spend 40 minutes at night scrolling through options before settli…

The example always used is Jimmy Johnson’s Herschel Walker trade for 9 picks, but I don’t know how many of those went to the killer line that really made Emmitt/et al. great.

3/4 of those are absolute dogshit. The other 1/4 range between okay and “actually good? wow!” (The Force Awakens, Fringe, first Star Trek)

Just say no to road head, kids.

This is absolutely what’s going to happen - the percentage of the population with guns is declining, this has a carry-on effect over generations. The fewer people who grow up around guns, the less inclined they are to be apathetically accepting of them - the gun world has cruised on soft opposition with most people vag…

Similarly, Pedro Martinez could strike out every batter but didn’t to keep his teammates involved and keep his pitch count down.

4th grade PE class, soccer. I’ve never even seen soccer being played except maybe a couple of highlights from the 1990 World Cup on the news, but I have started my first year of tackle football.

Something happens, PE teacher sets up a free kick - my mind sees the kicker lining up like a field goal with no blockers.…

The big question - who’s funding all of these “think tanks” and “educational institutions”? 

Look at a chart on middle class growth, compare to a chart on union participation.

It only works on desktop if I disable my ad blocker... but I’d rather not be able to comment (oh, the horror) than subject myself to the misery of G/O sites without a blocker. 

‘Serena’s husband, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian’

If I were to create a plan, it would center on eventually making all semi-automatic firearms subject to the 1934 NFA, like automatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns. Transfer requires a long process and a $200 tax stamp, fingerprints, etc.. It’s also unquestionably legal without any alterations to the 2nd Amendment.

Pri…

The good news is that Arneson did eventually get paid - first with royalties and then a lump sum from Wizards of the Coast. He wasn’t completely shafted by the way things developed, unlike (as others have mentioned) Bill Finger.

and Steve Boooooooochelle

Toby Harrah, Oddibe McDowell, Julio Franco, Ruben Sierra... after 1989 (when I was old enough to discover there were other teams I could root for instead of the nearest) it gets blurry.

Kickstarting shoes is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard of.

Kickstarting shoes is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard of.

How in the hell does Myspace still have almost 400 employees? 

Yes, if it’s in the rules that gives managers leeway to actually do it.

“At the start of the eighth or ninth inning, the manager of a team trailing by 12 or more runs may choose to forfeit.”

though if they did they would discover that some of the band’s politics were pretty similar to a majority of the sport’s fan base