Manziel threw a 48-hour rager in a rented L.A. mansion that caused $20,000 worth of damage

Who hasn’t?

I agree with you for the most part but “struggling” and throwing massive parties and not giving a flying fuck seem pretty far apart on the arbitrary spectrum in my head. self-destructing? yes. but he seems to enjoy this, not really struggle with it.

That’s Pietro Tomaselli. He’s 11, and he plays for one of the youth squads for AS Roma.

Calling a downed pilot a coward is so stupid. Even more so when they spent that kind of time as a POW, and refused special treatment or early release.

He was shot down by a SAM you dumbass. He spent over five years as a POW, after fracturing his arms and a leg and getting bayoneted by his captors. He only received medical treatment days later when they figured out who his dad was. Then when he refused to be released early for North Vietnamese propaganda reasons, he…

Whaaa? Much higher stall speed, less reliable and non-redundant engines, a smaller cannon, no titanium cockpit shell, no redundant tail fins, and smaller wingspan that won’t keep it flying should a chunk of wing go missing? Also, good luck taking off from the runways the A-10 uses.

The A-10 was specifically designed with intrinsic “countermeasures” against ground fire. The pilot’s “tub” of armor, vertical stabilizers that obscure the engines, good low speed maneuverability, etc.

It’s not like the A-10 has never been shot down before. We lost like six of them in Desert Storm, and a lot more have been shot to hell since.

Marines are on the shiny tech bandwagon.

“You know General, I’ve had more than a little military experience myself, including flying close air support”

They don’t even need to build more of them, we already have 300 of them, and most have been highly upgraded.

I think the real problem with the A-10 is that the fleet is paid for, and therefore is no longer a large-bandwidth conduit for money to flow to defense contractors. No more A-10s means more F-35s which means more more MORE money for...Lockheed!

I understand that, but look...here in the US a far bigger killer is obesity yet we live in a culture where pointing that out is now “fat shaming”! Again, I’m very respectful of others and always ask when say, on the beach or even up at my lake house. Most are fine because I keep myself away from others, some like the…

We’re gonna get flooded with all these Cuban cigars and there will be a whole cigar renaissance

George Burns lived to 100. Secondly most cigar smokers are like your husband, recreational. It isn’t addictive and such infrequent use is why cigarette smokers die at FAR HIGHER rates.

Big fan of yours Drew. You’re the main reason I visit deadspin.

I’m sure the version being taught in public schools is warmed over cold war propaganda, but you’d have no shortage of other - decent - explanations as to why communism didn’t work in practice or even why Marx’s ideas were fundamentally flawed.

I mean...as envisioned? Or as practiced?