“One thing I never could stand about San Antonio ... all the damn vampires.”

Boston’s without Marcus Smart, who’s a part of several of their best-performing lineups, so maybe Tatum and Brown can keep their body parts unmangled?

Westbrook is a leading candidate for the Carmelo Anthony “all of a sudden teams just don’t want him” treatment a few years from now.

After careful (and uncomfortable) study, I have become convinced that Jokic’s huge head is entirely covering someone else in the background, except for a few wispy hairs.

I was gonna say, “Who cares about any of this crap? When is Nailed It Season 3 coming?” but the article answers that question!

Oh, definitely. In no way am I advocating that her word be taken and Luke Walton declared guilty without full legal vetting of her accusations (nor would I recommend that in any other situation).

Yes. Sure. Why not? Maybe at first she thought she could get past it and didn’t want the hassle of a trial, but seeing Walton continue to gain high-profile jobs proved to be too much for her. Maybe she wrestled with whether to report it or not at the time, regrets the decision she made, and wants to at least shed…

Right. At least with a civil trial the word still gets out, and there’s at least potentially some kind of compensation at the end for having her name dragged through the mud for months or years.

This is such a shortsighted take. Let’s say she does manage to earn a judgment and gets, I don’t know, four million dollars. That’s probably more than she’d actually get, but what the hell. On appeal, and it will go through endless appeals, that figure will be reduced to a fraction of the original judgment (see, for…

I agree with all of this, especially that the system continues to fail women who speak up, and that efforts to change things have to start culturally, not legally. My hope is that, at the least, things like this will continue to force people to pay attention to the culture that allows this kind of stuff.

FWIW there is plenty of delicious Indian food with a heat level of basically zero, but it can vary wildly (I’ve had kormas, normally heat-less, that were well above “medium”). That said, if it’s not your thing, I ain’t gonna push it on you!

This is gross but I remain glad that more women are speaking out about their experiences. The only way the culture’s ever going to change is if people are held accountable for their actions (or at very least publicly dragged for them, since our legal systems not great at holding rich white people accountable for…

When I worked for OkCupid in NYC, we used to do catered lunches every Friday. One of our coders, an Indian from India, whenever we would order Indian food for delivery, would be like “let me do the phone call” so that the people on the line would hear his accent when he said “spicy for an Indian” and understand that…

It’s extremely possible to be influenced by one’s life experience without writing direct allegory. Lord of the Rings may not be about World War I, but it’s influenced by it. Tolkien himself compared Sam and Frodo’s relationship to that of a Batsman and an officer, and I believe he also said that the Dead Marshes were…

The Pope Thrower / Storm Duck meeting is going to be my championship game, regardless of who wins the actual championship.

You know what will last forever? My personal ban on watching the Robert Kraft hand job video.

Great job by the various low seeds, and I’m not a huge fan of Jizyah, but I don’t see how this ends with anyone else taking the throne

Yeh, even back then I knew the “go for milk” thing but there was no milk for which to go, because this was a big food expo and not a specialty hot sauce expo. I mean, I assume there was milk somewhere, but it wasn’t near me!

Several years ago, when my wife still worked in the beverage industry, she got tickets to the Fancy Food Expo in New York. I went along for a few hours, and at one point we stopped at a booth containing hot sauce. The guy asked me what my heat tolerance was, and I was honest: “I’m usually fine with most places’ idea…

One of the most amazing things about this series, to me, is that Giannis played 32 minutes or less in all four games, averaging about 30 mpg, and still put up absurd numbers. Normally in the playoffs, the top guys are playing 38-42 minutes (or, if they’re LeBron, 46). Milwaukee just hasn’t needed to do that.