That’s what it’s all about, right there.

Any dude obsessed with virginity is a creep. It is known.

Somehow this isn’t shocking. He’s never seemed like good people to me.

It’s not a fucking persian cat, man, it’s a fucking mountain lion with huge claws and longass teeth and 5 million years of instinct to go for the throat. They’re like 8 feet long. We are helpless meat bags with our jugular veins totally exposed and, in this case, spandex armor.

Felines are freakishly strong and fast relative to size, even sick/starved ones. If my 12 lb house cat wanted to kill me bad enough, she might could.

My condolences to Matthew Broderick and family.

From MountainLion.org FAQs. Mountain lions can:

The evidence of how hard it is would appear to be right here in the outcome of this encounter. Not to be an asshole, but the answer looks to be ‘fucking very’.

They are terrifyingly strong, from head to tail. And their claws are razor-sharp. I wouldn’t fancy the chances of the strongest man on earth against one of them.

I know it’s a controversial take, but I sort of hate seeing an animal killed for doing what it does naturally in its natural habitat. That said, I’m guessing there was no real option here, because there’s probably a non-zero chance that something is wrong with the cougar, and if it liked the flavor of human, it would…

Nope me too. And I would have rather seen a picture of the injured man (or no pic at all) than a picture of a dead cougar who was trying to survive while we humans walk/ride around in what’s left of his house. Fuck us all. Truly sad for all involved.

Depends, how sharp are your teeth and fingernails?

pretty tough, unless they were armed.

Our bodies are not built to fight large cats. We have thin skin that doesn’t do a good job protecting our vitals from large claws and huge teeth. We’re good at problem solving and throwing things, and we’re built to do some physical things quite well, but fighting large cats and bears is not what we excel at.

Is it terrible that I feel bad for the cougar too? Sounds like it was sick and starving. Really unfortunate all around.

Also, the team was never on the market; the moment Schultz decided to sell the team, David Stern orchestrated the sale to his BFF Clay Bennett without any chance for a local owner to get involved. The romance bloomed when Bennett was a minority owner of the Spurs, and would have bought the team and moved them to OKC…

except they weren't a bad team, and fans only stopped showing up once they knew they were gone. all they had was horrible ownership.

There are cities that don't deserve sympathy when their teams leave. In some cases, like Atlanta with their hockey teams, it's really better that the team moves somewhere that will really be grateful to have a team. But what these guys and David Stern did to Seattle is quite simply, wrong. Great article Jeremy, and…

I'm sitting at my dad's desk staring at his Kevin Calabro bobblehead and his almost-unwatchable (due to age) VHS tape of the Sonics v. Boston from 1983 and feeling like the biggest asshole in the world for the empty Starbucks cup next to my computer.

Thanks for this, +1.