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Or did you just halluciate your drive, but actually just sat in the car with the ignition off?

In soCal you’d get pulled over instantly for being a textbook marijuana DUI. Nobody drives like that unless they’re baked.

Coors is not bad, if you are at one of those lazy parties thrown by a person who does their beer shopping at a gas station or poorly stocked Costco and your beer options are Coors, Bud, Miller, and Corona. “They” (in the Trumpian usage) don’t call it the “banquet beer" for nothing. Kinda like an off-brand Miller High…

It must be really exhausting to be this angry at stupid shit all the time.

There are no truths more raw and harder in this savage world of ours than those that come down to us from the mouhts of 24 y/o bleach blond white girls.

Went to a wedding in 2010 where the groom was a Hartford native. The entire reception was basically Whalers themed. Every 5th song was the Whalers song and when it came on, all the male attendees from CT would start hopping around like it was a Jewish wedding and everyone else kept asking each other, “WTF is this…

Trump goes down there to appear presidential but basically has nothing to say when EPN tells him to his face “fuck your wall.” So as noted elsewhere, he’s meek when forcefully confronted. Supporters will say “see he’s so presidential, he didn’t even get mad” while most sane people will see this for what it is, a…

So basically old rich white guy, being old white and rich (just by talking into a mic to seething rednecks), can’t fathom how being rich would make anyone feel oppressed, because white people, when they’re rich, OWN shit. But droves of fellow white people similarly situated have spent the entire election cycle…

Superb double tap there.

I wonder what on God’s green earth motivated an American to pick Newcastle during what has been a grim 15-year run? Even so, then why switch to the Hammers after this past season? It’s not like it’s the first time the club was relegated in the past decade. And Newcastle and West Ham represent two VERY different fan…

After reading all the WYTS articles this year so far, I think almost EVERY one of them has some anecdote of super racist fans saying super racist shit. You’d almost be led to think we had a serious problem with race in this country reading these.

As a Niners fans, this whole mess is just inexplicable. Kaep sucks (at life and at football). The 49ers suck, bad. Why would I give a shit that he won’t stand during the national anthem? It means nothing, and for many fans I’m sure they’re just standing around like “let’s get this game started already.” It’s not like…

LA. Nobody really gives a shit about sports. They go to Lakers games, wear Dodgers hats, but that’s just obligatory civic duty. You won’t find another big city/metro area that coasts through winning and losing seasons with so little emotionally invested.

Yeah, the ONE and only time I beat Tyson (right after my buddy’s dad showed me Tyson’s pattern), I was the same. Rode around the neighborhood grinning like Simple Jack for an hour. Then I never did it again. It’s like my Timmy Smith Super Bowl gaming moment. For one day, I was unstoppable.

It’s official, the Raiders are being run by the game engine from Madden 2005. Let it be known that EA Sports foretold this years ago, to include the ridiculous stadium designs. Are we sure the Raiders front office isn’t just playing Madden and replicating the in-game actions in real life? Like I imagine some soccer…

When I was a wee lad and saw the sports machine (at some random hour in California) for the first time, I was SO confused. How did the guy who sang such hits as “Careless Whisper” “Freedom” and “Faith” morph into this middle-aged quasi-sports caster standing next to a strange kitchen counter with oversized buttons…

The fierce intellectualism (for which UChicago is known for) driving this policy is admirable and captured nicely in the first paragraph of the letter to freshman. But the second paragraph, dripping with smug condescension, is entirely unnecessary. It’s like a measured and thoughtful academic wrote the first…

This was a great read. Thanks. A lazy shorthand for this might be “moneyball effect” (applying analytics to something that was superstition or untested conventions). It’s amazing to see how every little unexplored or previously neglected niche area is now getting or has been professionalized. On the one hand, as a…

Every person I know who grew up in the Buffalo area (this is like 5 people tops), is like a war refugee. So happy just to be anywhere but Buffalo. An Army buddy of mine was so zen when got stationed at Bliss in El Paso. He was like, “It ain’t Buffalo, that’s all that really matters.” Another, when seeing the sights of…