Not sure this is as big of a story as it sounds. No one who can afford a Black Lotus that wants one, doesn't have it already. The formats where you can play Black Lotus are small and dying.

I saw the Flaming Lips in 1990 in the quad of my college. They were fucking wasted on acid and god knows what else and were just awful. The other people who were, I assume, tripping balls seemed to like it before they wandered off into the woods to make the stars fall.

The lacrosse field is over there, sir.

Oh no. But the knucklehead parents all THINK they will and are therefore justified at screaming at any and all people within 200 yards of the playing field for any reason, real or imagined.

My parents meeting opening line was "No one on this team will play Major League Baseball. No one on this team will get an athletic scholarship. No one on this team will brag about anything that they did on this team when they are in college. This is a bunch of kids playing a game. Your job is to not ruin it for them.…

The mayor of my town is a minor coach for team that won the Super Bowl several years ago, and he still wears that shit around. It's hilarious because the ring is GIGANTIC and he's not. Every one makes fun of him because of it.

I don’t know whether Kotaku would have said something or not ... I do know that a Caitlyn Jenner joke would also not have been inconsistant with Minsc’s character either. Difference is that people who would have objected to a Caitlyn Jenner joke wouldn’t have hidden behind the stupid “It’s out of character” defense…

If anything, the new characters and storyline are "more authentic" to the Baldur's Gate ethos and flavor than not. People who are bothered by it are bothered by it because they have been made uncomfortable not because there is any sort of "break with tradition" in BG.

I'm not sure how you can recognize that Minsc is one of the most beloved characters and think that having him toss a one-off dig was somehow in any way shape or form inconsistant with his character ... at all.

Jay Glazer looks like 1/2 of the men between 35-50 in Philadelphia.

Agreed. This was some weak-ass shit. Definitely not Keith's A-Game.

As the AD of large youth sports program, I can tell you that youth football is in big trouble. Any parent who’s even mildly concerned about the health of their kids isn’t letting them play football, leaving only the lunatic parents left. Since 2010, our program has gone from 308 to 202 kids. With no sane parents left…

It's not that they don't understand this, it's just that most teams can't generate that kind of pressure without sending blitzes, which leaves someone open and Tom Brady is very good at finding the open man in a blitz.

One man's cry-baby is another man's man-crush, evidently

I have a "tropical hammock" meaning the kind you lay in crosswise not lengthwise and naps in the hammock with breeze blowing and the birds chirping and a beer on my belly like Homer J. is one of life's hidden treasures.

There seems to be a basic flaw in many of the assertions made in the latter half of the article when discussing the odds of winning. The number of tickets sold has absolutely zero bearing on winning because THERE IS NOT A GUARANTEED WINNER. It amazes me how many people do not grasp this very simple concept.

I know right? It's completely unprecedented! Thank goodness, the New York Jets and New York Giants play in New York City

Facebook is fine provided you actively winnow your friends list down to the small set of people who don't annoy you.

It makes perfect sense. In fact, it HAS to be that way. A kickoff and fumble are treated exactly the same because they are the same: a live ball put into play by the offense.

Right on! I, for one, am glad that Dubya used the political capitol earned off of the death of thousands of innocents to gin up a war against a country that had nothing to do with the death of those innocents. I can't wait for my chance to have a beer with him!