I don’t know, bad NFL is about as unbearable as it gets. 5 seconds of shitty play followed by 2-3 minutes of set up and commercials.

Rumours of HW’s tendency to be “grabby” while making sexual jokes have circulated among certain circles since at least the late 90's. Not to mention hushed rumors of very secret and numerous mistresses before and during his presidency.

If Arsene is sacked, Liverpool’s post-Rafa travails is the future. While being entrenched at 4th sucks, it’s better than yo-yo-ing between the relegation zone and UCL qualification. LFC was at best “middling” and a Brendan Rodgers/David Moyes cratering is in store for whoever follows Wenger. It’s not like Arsenal is…

I find this statement odd. Military operational planning requires that all these things be taken into account in the planning process. The CiC either approves or disapproves the plan, and any specific aspects in it like line-items. For example, Clinton’s “No AC-130 and armor for TF Odin’s Aidid raid” (Mogadishu 1993).…

Amen. I might be the only “liberal” that a number of guys I served with actually consider a “friend.” Before I served, I knew maybe 2 or 3 people I would call both a friend and conservative. Now I know numerous guys who for sure voted Trump, but I consider them brothers because of the bonds we built spending 12 months…

I spent 12 months deployed in southern Afghanistan in 2010-11, when I was active duty. My time in Afghanistan gave me an appreciation of both what was great and horrible about the place and its people. “Nuance” is unavoidable if you go into it with an open mind. Afghan food is awesome, if you bother to eat anything…

Also, Johan Cruijff looks like a guy you would’ve gotten mercilessly bullied if he grew up in the US. But somehow, defying Billy Haisley’s notions of what a great athlete looks like, he ended like being one of the 5 best footballers of all time. Just sayin.

Why use Balotelli as the point of comparison? Balotelli’s career has been a huge bust because Balotelli is a basketcase.

And this is why after fathering 2 boys, I won’t “try for a girl.”

You gotta admit, this is a noteworthy low point in the franchise. Denise and Jed’s daddy kinda let a sliding-into-rebuild-mode franchise crater after Mooch, but Jed took a SB contender and smashed it to pieces in one season. Erickson and early Nolan had the stench of standard rebuild loserdom, but now we are at…

This is the lowest moment in the 30-ish years I’ve been a fan. I stopped following the team since Harbaugh got fired. That had all the markings of a Dan Snyder like operation and I want nothing to do with that. If Jed York is gone, there is some hope, but while he’s there Niners will become the Browns of the NFC.

Actually I thought it was to explain why Sonny was the lover Lucy could never get over. He was the only man big enough to satisfy her. Then again, I read it over 10 years ago.

The prequels are entirely Lucas’ creations, so rebooting them is, from a “canonical” view, sacrilege. I’m sure if Lucas directed V and VI, they’d be trainwrecks just like I-III, but they’d still be core canon. Lucas would definitely have to die first before anyone even hopes to raise the reboot question. I consider…

I’m a former Army officer, now in the reserves, not a WP grad. I’ve been watching this game nearly 30 years (I’m 37). My dad, former fighter pilot, loved this game and made me watch it with him. The end ALWAYS gets dust in my eye. A buddy I grew up with graduated WP in 2001 and his class and the next few classes had…

Anybody who writes hot takes as a living, has absolutely no standing to complain of others being soft, especially when those they complain of run around every night against the world’s best athletes. Could this dude climb a flight of stairs without having a heart attack? 99.99% of sports columnists in America…

I’m a fed, at a large high-viz department in DC. Worried, but not freaked out (despite being at an office where there is good reason to be shitting one’s pants). Couple thoughts here:

This is like the post-script to Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” The culture war issues and the economic issues have become so intertwined that at this point it may be impossible to break them up and appeal to only one if you are trying to break the GOP stranglehold on “rural” America. The reality is…

Nobody should take Paul Finebaum seriously about anything, especially football.

Democrats need to be accountable for the fact that it fielded two aging candidates who were flawed in profound and fatal ways, but also that its “younger” generation of pols are over-groomed hacks like Cory Booker and Julian Castro. Obama was like a comet hurtling through the sky, here and then gone in a 8-year window…

So Yale’s statement is, in short, “We knew this was fucked up for a long time, we fucked up by reprinting it, but we didn’t intend to fuck up.” The athletics department needs to hire a new PR person.