FTFY.

Dear NFL,

Take that a step further. Even if you DO stand in your living room with your hand over your year heart, even if you spent your whole life fighting for this country and its freedoms, even if you did all that, if you don’t get that among the freedoms you were defending were actions JUST LIKE what NFL players are doing…

Nice try Black Widow that learned to type and blog. “Patrick,” indeed.

There is some very good advice here. I would highlight that if you can afford it, hire a geriatric care counselor and an elder care attorney. These are very expensive, but consider them experts in the process and the landscape of all these facilities who have the experience to know the good from the less good and…

Any word on who was awarded the game ball?

Are you looking for a good home for some stray dogs? I might know a guy.

Dear NBA: No one needs a memo from you or anyone to remind us of what and how we can or should express ourselves about when we think something is wrong. That’s not how expression of those ideas works. Not really a complicated concept actually.

Pop is the angry grampa we all wish we had. He’s grouchy and has no filters, and almost everything he says is gold.

EXACTLY RIGHT! (*as long as you exclude the player closest to him, #34 who has his hand on his shoulder)

I think the old rule of thumb about assholes applies, pretty obviously: You encounter an asshole one day, and that might just be a bad day; but if you run into assholes all day, pretty much every day, it’s almost certainly you that is the asshole.

Three piece suit, huh? Is this an old guy effort to go hipster or is he volunteering as an assistant bank manager from the 70s in his spare time?

The buffoon in the White House is talking about sports. He’s mixing the two things deliberately and inflammatorily. Deadspin didn’t do that. Dumb Donny did that. He didn’t use tortured sports analogies like most politicians do horribly, this jackass is actually using public office to advance the sophisticated…

OMG YES!!!! When I go to the grocery store, I have to go to the seltzer aisle first so I can fit EIGHT twelve packs into the bottom of the cart. And then yes, half empty cans all over the house. Empty or sometimes not empty ones on their sides, strewn about as if we have had the lamest ever seltzer-only frat party…

I would estimate conservatively that 25% of my usable kitchen cabinet space is occupied by kids’ water bottles. Of those water bottles, maybe 15 - 20% are actively being used. It makes me bonkers. The other day, I pulled out a sliding shelf to get at some tupperware and about 8 water bottles fell back behind the…

Nick, I wonder if you have any kids with idevices that you use this feature for from time to time (and by that, I mean time to time daily)??? Hahahahah. No, no I don’t wonder that at all actually.

Well this is just great. I think I might have preferred to just enjoy the bliss of my ignorance on this one.

1.) They could do that now, couldn’t they? Plus, I’d argue in the NFL there are no scrubs on the 53-man roster. But that is immaterial.

I disagree and think you could do both, also penalize severely some other number of games even if there is not severe injury. And it’s not random. The penalty being called in situations like this is targeting. Or in hockey it’s head contact. It’s a deliberate shot to the head, you created the situation where…

I agree and that’s actually what I was trying to say. Whatever the penalty in games suspended for the hit, that penalty can only be served beginning AFTER injured player is cleared.