Not really. My more "edgy" friends were smoking in 8th grade. I smoked for the first time the week before 9th grade started. Most of my friends were smoking by the end of 9th grade.

Fox eh?

You assume everything is equal. In America we educate everyone. Think about that for a second. Every single child has a right to education.

Most of the world runs because of a small fraction of people who make things and keep things running. The rest of us are reaping the benefits of their ingenuity and labour.

Not sure comparing Finland, a homogenous nation of 5 million, to the United States is really that applicable.

CORRECTION: Arena Football Fan Gets Absolutely Wrecked, Leans Out Over Field

This particular meme seems all the more appropriate right now.

One interesting bit about the character names is that Koba was the pseudonym that Stalin used as a young revolutionary in Russia.

Unless I'm missing something obvious, this is a silly analysis. We may use shorthand phrases about "teams" being patient, but patience at the plate would ultimately be appropriately modeled as an individual-player phenomena. The effect of patience is at the level 1 (player), not at the level 2 (team of players).

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'Mello Yello is like the most fucking delicious thing on the planet'

God, I would not wish that sort of pain on my worst enemy. Some people are glad this happened and it makes me sick. It's so sad, that sort of pain is killer.

Both sides in the American Civil War (sorry, I'm writing from Virginia: The War Between the States) had aircraft. Balloons lifted by coal gas and hydrogen were used for reconnaissance and artillery spotting. The observer communicated with the ground by telegraph. The Union even had a boat that could launch a balloon;…