I love tennis beefs and I’m not even really a tennis fan.

Seems like the easiest fix is to establish a fixed penalty rather than spot of the foul? Pass interference calls only hold so much weight because they can advance you like 30-40 yards downfield in one go.

I’ve had the misfortune of having one or two bosses who liked to scream at employees (and more fortunately the ability to ensure those employment arrangements were short-lived) and this shit just does not work. It didn’t make me more motivated, or make me a harder worker, or make me dig deep to find that something…

This is maybe more appropriate for an io9 Guy Remembering segment, but superhero trading cards also had a weird boom in the 90s, for the same reasons, and anyways long story short I have a bunch of Batman Forever trading cards that are still tucked away in my parents’ attic. I think they’re in the same card album as…

People who stand two-abreast on escalators can eat shit. Unless you’re in one of a handful of the busiest subway stations in the city, you’re slowing me down by not letting me walk up the escalator. 

I’m usually bummed about pro sports work stoppages, even if I back the players holding out for a better deal (or back them as ownership attempts to screw them, as the case may be). But I’m actually looking forward to the next baseball strike. I don’t see any other way that things get better. 

Typically I make soup by putting the ingredients in a pot over an open flame on my stovetop and then leaving it there for a few hours. And now I find out that I could have been making less soup in a more expensive doodad all this time? Goddamn do I feel stupid.

We all know this happened because Dave Gettleman and the NYC tabloids think he’s uppity, right? Like, even by the low standards of professional sports and the lower standards of the NFL the amount of racist dog whistles in the way the Daily News, NY Post, and Giants front office have talked about Odell Beckham over…

Never forget that in a just society David Frum would have been exiled from public life for his role in abetting war crimes for which, again, in a just society many of his colleagues would have been convicted and imprisoned for. 

It’s not just Murray - the Daily News had an article this morning bitching about Dwayne Haskins’ hustle in the combine drills. 

They’re just questions, Kris. In answer to your query, they’re written down for me. It’s a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?

I can handle small quantities of mayo, preferably so little and/or so blended into the rest of the ingredients that I don’t even know it’s there, but the amount of mayo that’s applied to many dishes is truly disgusting. Mayo on it’s own is horrifying - hide that shit from me if you want me to eat it.

I can handle small quantities of mayo, preferably so little and/or so blended into the rest of the ingredients that I don’t even know it’s there, but the amount of mayo that’s applied to many dishes is truly disgusting. Mayo on it’s own is horrifying - hide that shit from me if you want me to eat it.

You know what had the quality of a made-for-TV movie this year? Fucking Bohemian Rhapsody. But that steaming pile of amateur hour dogshit still won multiple Oscars, so forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical of any Academy members who want to talk about the purity of cinema or whatever.

If we don’t make that transition in the next 30 years though sea level rise will flood large parts of the coastal United States, wild fires will burn significantly more land with more intensity on an annual basis than they do now, and crop yields will be threatened. The transition to all-electric transportation is…

This is why I don’t really understand why so many non-Spanish top players want to play for Madrid. Sure, it gives you a somewhat better chance than the other European mega clubs at winning the Champions League and building a more lucrative personal brand, but the fans, local tabloids, and club directors are all…

It’s a fucking crime that this man will never win a Stanley Cup. The Rangers have done him wrong.

*Ahem* “Wrecking” is the word in the chorus that gets elongated, not “ball.”

I hate too the fans who excuse this bullshit by playing fantasy GM and deluding themselves into taking the owner’s perspective. Advanced statistics are a useful (and sometimes fun!) way to analyze the game, but there are way too many fucking nerds who read Moneyball and forgot that watching sports is supposed to be…

Cool, the villains in a Far Cry game are people of color again. I’m sure they’re well-written and not treated as exotic others.