News Flash! The Freeze dusted another bro today even though he stumbled coming out of the “blocks.”

Lena Dunham does this though and everhthing is cool.

Right? I saw this with the new Ghostbusters movie.

Right? I saw this with the new Ghostbusters movie. I could be happy that a bunch of talented female actors got roles in a reboot of a beloved classic. I could also say that the movie sucked. Because it did suck. And it would have probably sucked if they made it with Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill. Just because someone…

Countercounterpoint: no, he isn’t.

Personally, (and I guess this needs to be said) I supported Kaepernick’s decision to not stand as a form of protest. It was subtle, poignant, and about as far away from “attention seeking” as one can get. Honestly, the only reason it got so much media coverage was because people who disagreed with him wouldn’t shut up…

This qualifies as a news story? This really is the greatest witch hunt in American hiscoco.

......As opposed to those ever-so-frequent decoy swings without any intent to hit the ball? What?

+1 000 000 yen for that great find.

I’ve posted this here before, but it bears repeating. The ever-brilliant Grant Brisbee at SB Nation did a comparison of games thirty years apart to see why today’s game is so much longer. I highly recommend the entire thing, because he’s a great writer and funny as hell, but here’s the summary:

If there were no salary cap and no max contracts, some teams would undoubtedly spend more, and then all teams would have to spend more, increasing both the potential risk and reward of building a team. 

You are aware there is more than one pitch thrown in a game, right?

I’m not going to call you crazy, just wrong. The award is determined by regular season play because it’s what the entire league has in common. So players are evaluated on their performance over a longer period, against common opponents, and with a large enough sample size to get a comprehensive view of their…

This is why Congress critters had much larger staffs pre-Clinton era. Those staffers would spend the days poring over the bills and summing them up for the Reps who lacked policy expertise in some areas. Then Gingrich came along and axed a lot of that in order to force more ill-informed votes and make them rely on…

Was his name, by chance, Joseph Ducreux?

This is magnificent. A perfect unique microcosm.

You know she doesn’t even play games right?

Same. She generally had some good points, and I didn’t ever vehemently disagree or whole-heartedly agree with her, but she fell really, REALLY hard into the confirmation bias trap.

It’s funny, while I don’t disagree with her, I always had problems with her examples. They tended to show a surface level understanding of the games she was critiquing.