There’s always room for rampant speculation to be wildly off base, of course, but I can’t think of another explanation for the bullshit around his training at Tristar that doesn’t involve his dad being a weird stage parent.

20-year-old blond wonderboy Sage Northcutt

Right, exactly. I’m loathe to say he has no real future in the sport — he has some native talent and obviously an element of athleticism going for him, and he’s 20, so who knows. If he would commit to a camp that would push him hard maybe the picture will change some both technically and mentally, I don’t know. But he…

All I want for Christmas is clear audio of Sage’s shit talk.

His fight IQ is also just....not there, my god. He should treat the ground like it’s lava and historically rarely does. The shit talking he did with Gall tonight while Gall was on his back was probably the most mature fight decision he’s ever made.

He’s young and green and has a lot of style, but huge holes in his game. He can definitely close some of those gaps (he’s got enough substance to be legit, to some degree), but it depends on a change in his training situation. He needs to get his ass to a camp that will push him.

Interested to see how the hype machine dills with his loss.

I think most of us thought this was the inevitability, with the giant asterisk that also anything could happen because Gall was relatively untested and Sage isn’t actually a can (just a young fighter with a lot of development work to do who super needs to shake up his training). Smartly executed win on Gall’s part, in…

You’re way oversimplifying a really complex issue. People are against or for the death penalty to varying degrees and for different reasons. My objections to the death penalty are less of a blunt moral horror and more a specific ethical and practical objection to how unfairly it’s been applied, specifically how it’s…

Uh, does this strike anyone as askew? Etsy is not a fast-fashion retailer — if anything, isn’t it sort of the opposite?

But what if I want to HAVE IT ALL! Angelica, Eliza, and Baby!

Yeah, I wasn’t really counting summer snow in the mountains. I guess I take it for granted that anything can happen in the hills. ;)

Ha, I should have been more specific, I’ve never had it in my corner of the state while I’ve lived here, but I sure believe it. I’ve been in some very wintry July conditions.

I live in WY and you are wrong. Winter arrives whenever it goddamn well pleases, up to and including summer months if the mood strikes (July is the only month where I haven’t seen snow).

Thanks for jumping in with your perspective — obviously you have insight on this issue that few of us do, and your observations are definitely on point.

The problem is, in a lot of this country, guns are extremely normalized. I live in a very pro-gun state. Kids knowing about, talking about, watching videos about guns is like every day par for the course.

Then why set the story (and the “gotcha” message) in a school, a space where parents are largely absent?

You know....I don’t think I love this. Who is this aimed toward — teachers? Do we think teachers don’t try to intervene with troubled kids? Students? There were students interacting with this kid, and anyway, asking students to police the behavior of “creepy loner weirdos” is how you get bullying. (And I mean, say you…

Mickey Gall: “I’M GONNA BREAK SAGE’S BONES.”

Literally the biggest downer in Harry Potter movie history — and yes I’m including all the book 7 material because at least I knew that was coming and could prepare myself. I don’t know what Colin Farrell has done to turn himself around from the weird sleazy brink he was living on, but he has totally boomeranged…