and you had to wait until the next day’s paper to get a goddamn box score for anything.

PA may be (IS) a backwards state, but at least they got this correct. No more registration stickers since every police vehicle in the state seems to have like 50 cameras that instantly read your plate and then analyze all databases known to man to find the smallest infraction to fine you for.

I was working in LA for a week at the height of the “Where Will Durant Go?” chatter. The local sports radio guys (and the callers in to their shows) were just convinced that KD was going to be a Laker.

people need to stop bitching about the prequels.

When thinking of Italian names, I am reminded of this clip from an episode of Cheers. (I haven’t figured out how to embed the clip in my actual post; I’m old.)

Now reading up on this. Both fascinating and (as a middle-aged man) horrifying. I guess we will find out Assuming Trump is honest (ha!), he will get some sort of comprehensive physical in a few days. Perhaps we will learn more about the “healthiest man ever.”

I’m willing to give people the benefit of the doubt with pictures— but man, that pic of Trump is just unforgiving. He has no neck in the pic; the collar of his shirt just comes up to his jaw. And Jesus, his gut is just huge! And not just in a beer belly way. Like, from the collar bone down, he’s just enormous. And…

Ackbar had minimal lines in the original trilogy. He was completely unimportant and I don’t even know that you could call him a fan favorite until the past 15 or so years when the “It’s a trap!” meme took off.

If I’m not mistaken, in Barry Sanders’ last year, the Oklahoma State Cowboys played the Wyoming Cowboys. The Cowboys won.

Thanks for that— that didn’t occur to me, but it makes sense. And yes, of course: when you’re poor, it can be hard to vote if just because taking off a Tuesday to stand in line can be hard to do when you’re counting on those wages. (To say nothing of various voter ID suppression techniques.)

Since Nov. 7, 2016, the rush to blame the rural poor for Trump (despite the hard numbers revealing that his real base is comfortably middle-class whites living in suburbia) has created a thirsty market for this kind of drivel.

The whole “Merry Christmas” debacle is a perfect illustration of how sociopolitical discourse has degenerated in the United States.

The airline thing is crazy. Granted, All Nippon is Star Alliance just like United, so they presumably code share and that could have created some confusion. But in the end, there is a ticket that you scan, and I assume that the information imparted on that ticket effectively says, “this is my name and I am on this…

Durant can’t die in a fire fast enough.

Man, I was reading this and part way through I was like, man, this guy is just venting hard core. So: vent away, man. Vent away. Every little bit helps.

“So we’re at 3.3 percent GDP. I see no reason why we don’t go to 4 percent, 5 percent, and even 6 percent.”-Donald Trump, President and Super Genius.

Came here for this. Thanks!

Related: why would you promote a pawn to anything other than a Queen?

Thanks for this fun discussion, Ben.

I was actually at the TSA-Pre place and before I paid, the woman was like, “Global Entry is $15 more and also gives you TSA-Pre. You should just do that.”

So I went home, filled out the form, waited a bit (maybe 2 months? I forget) and then went in for an interview. That took all of two minutes and then I was golden. I…