I’d argue it’s a distinction without a difference. The point is that Heat ownership benefited from Wade’s cash-for-rings trade just as Wade ostensibly did (i.e. by valuing rings more than cash). If you want to argue that the pay cut was Wade’s idea in the first place, that’s fine, but the fact is that the Heat should…

But it’s not just players who care about rings. If Wade didn’t agree to that pay cut, the Heat ownership wouldn’t have won those two championships. No, they don’t “owe” him anything and there’s a lesson in here for everyone, but screw the Heat.

I remember the 1992 Presidential election. I was 6 years old and in the first grade in a NYC private school. All the kids (political experts, to a man) were chanting “Clin-ton! Clin-ton! Clin-ton!” But one kid was chanting “Bu-ush! Bu-ush! Bu-ush!” That kid would sometimes where a grey Confederate Officers’ uniform to…

I can’t understand why anyone would even be interested in a non-particular ball this guy gives away. Catching a ball yourself is basically the only value I can imagine a typical MLB baseball having.

Eh, I kinda agree with Michael Rosenberg. Watching Durant take the path of least resistance toward a ring is definitely less good than watching him double down on OKC or something.

If KD wanted out of OKC so badly, he didn’t have to sign an extension six years ago. Players should be able to do what they want and I support free agency in all respects, but let’s not act like KD signing with Golden State is first and foremost some noble expression of workers’ rights.

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four years and $72 million

The appeal of Blue Apron is that it makes cooking a meal marginally less painful by providing you the ingredients. The problem with Blue Apron is that it’s expensive, particularly if you live alone.

To be against affirmative action, you have to be some combination of dumb, selfish, or deeply indoctrinated.

He has said that the show doesn't influence his thinking, pointing out that he's been writing these books for decades and some of these events have been in his mind for half of his life. He isn't going to switch it up because the showrunners did things a little differently.

There's a difference between Jon or even Ramsay, who were raised by the lords of great houses, and Gendry, who was raised as a lowborn orphan.

That's the sort of thinking that was probably taking place behind Jaime's very pained expression at Cersei's coronation.

Yeah, everything about that scene was completely ridiculous. It was fun to see Arya avenge her family's death, but it felt really unearned.

No, never.

The author refers to it as L+R=J. Says it all, really.

I mean there's basically zero text support for this theory whatsoever, so 10/10, good tinfoil.

You seriously believe that with Daenerys Targaryen bearing down on Westeros, nobody will care that Jon is actually Rhaegar's son? Come on.

She dies from delivering Jon, but not before she whispers to Ned that he—meaning Rhaegar—“must not find out,” and what sounds like Jon’s true name.

Ned could've been like "Wait, is this Jon??"