TSN hockey analyst Jamie McLennan once said a player was showing his on-ice “intelligency”.  I almost self-immolated on the spot.  Except I would have had to get up off the couch and walk to the shed to get the gasoline.

Am I wrong in believing that at one moment in time ‘price point’ had a reason to exist, namely financial wonks looking at a demand curve or some such on a graph and discussing that at such and such ‘price point’ demand rose or fell or doubled or whatever, but then the technical term was wrestled away from the nerds by…

The accepted and ready use of ‘competency’ and ‘compentencies’ drove me out of staff development.  

In reciprocity, will you join me against ‘calmness’ (ugh...) instead of the perfectly good ‘calm’ as a noun?

[It was used intentionally, along with the double-negative. But I’ll readily join your quest if you join mine against the incessant use of the word ‘ongoing’, and the ‘-cy’ ending being tacked on to perfectly useful words like ‘resilience’ to make them more cromulent.]

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I think there’s a critical mass effect, sure, but Antonio had done some rabitty stuff before, to the point where I worried about his noggin. I think we just gave him more leash because he’s soft-spoken, he’s angelic, not a woofer like T.O. or Randy Moss.

One for mountain biking (used to have an extra one for road cycling), one for snowboarding, one for hockey, and one at work.  Various jobs required various helmets.

I remember being very worried about Donald Trump in the White House, but being somewhat reassured that there would be ‘adults in the room’. I then rejoiced along with most sane people about the fractures in the administration, the turmoil, the dismissals and resignations, even though I worried that by the constant…

[Skims comments.]

Yep.  Going against him every day in practice is not a solve, I don’t think.

At work, we inventory helmets and safety equipment, keep track of them with the serial numbers. A helmet is issued to one worker and inspected for damage annually and also when needed, and can be re-issued to another worker if someone resigns/retires and turns in his equipment, but after ten years the equipment is…

That’s what I think about constantly when hearing about Antonio’s escapades now.  The handsome soft-spoken almost cherubic player who is exhibiting more and more unpredictable behaviour, and who’s been laid out repetitively, knocked out cold while playing football, and it’s hard not to draw a straight line between the…

One aspect of his argument which could hold water or at least convince a jury is that he claims he sees (Vontaze Burfict) better while wearing his old helmet, that it affords him better peripheral vision than the new ones.  Which I could easily believe, if the new helmets have more material and padding, that it…

“I like beer.”

It’s what gets the populous interested and therefore supportive of...

Yes, that’s what has to be explained to employers over and over again.  You can use progressive discipline, up to dismissal if warranted, but you can’t force an employee to ‘pay’ for the breakage, even if it’s “just to teach her a lesson.”

You are not republican.  

That’s the worst, when you kinda feel like making an omelette, but you don’t have eggs.  Or you don’t have anything to eat, so you’ll just have toast, but you’re out of bread.

“We ended up driving cross country. We switched the driving, every half mile. We only had one cassette tape to listen to the whole trip. I can’t quite remember what it was.” — Steven Wright