I have a friend who, uh, fingered his then-girlfriend without adequately washing the habanero off his hands. There was apparently lots of vomiting.

There’s no moral valence to debt. You’re not a good person for paying it off, nor are you a bad person for failing to do so. It’s just a contract and there’s no good moral argument for binding people to it when they can’t pay (indeed, there’s a good argument that it’s immoral to bind people to a debt that they can’t…

It should be very enjoyable to watch this used as ammunition against baseball by bad faith merchants who have no interest or buy-in in the sport at all. Of course, MLB didn’t have to give them that opportunity, but, since the people who run baseball are—almost to a man—complete idiots, they had to jump at it. Great…

My girlfriend (GIRLFRIEND!) used to date a guy who was a tropical fish guy and apparently he would, like, cut dates short to tend to his fish. It probably would’ve been less work on his part to be a single parent.

Fish are only easy to keep if you’re an amateur fish owner. Tropical aquarium-style fish ownership is (1) extremely expensive and (2) tons of work.

Exactly. The shorter suspension is a signal that the conduct isn’t as bad. People are going to play right up to the edge of the rules, and when you selectively grant a weaker punishment, it implies that, in certain circumstances, the edge of the rules is a softer concept and people will be more comfortable going…

I think a key question for proponents is “how efficient do you think markets are?” That is, if you’re an EMH true believer, I don’t think you’re particularly worried about investing losses, because politics happens very slowly and, by the time MFA actually “happens,” the markets will have priced the harm to insurers…

I understand the impulse here and don’t really blame the NHL, but this is classic bad reasoning.

Maybe I’m missing something here, but isn’t the constant criticism of DOPS that they punish results, not actions? Wouldn’t punishing Foegele here be exactly that? (Caveat that I used to care a lot more about hockey than I do now, so this might be a three year old complaint).

I recommend “Psycho Killer.” The lyrics are even weirder than you remember them being and anyone can “do” David Byrne.

So! This is a topic of great interest to me and you’re wrong. In fact, you basically have it backwards: “hunter/gatherer societies” were generally much more pleasant groups to be part of than the early states. Grain cultivation—which is heavily associated with “civilization”—is extremely onerous, time-intensive,…

Your choices are basically Maker or Andre Drummond. Do you want Giannis to run over his defender or run past him?

It’s because no one cares about Juan Soto’s dad. I’m sure he’s a nice guy and everything, but he’s not a Hall of Famer.

Barr literally ran the Iran-Contra cover-up. Anyone who capable of reading a wikipedia page who thought he was going to be some beacon of truth and honesty is a moron or lying.

I’d be very interested in hearing the opinion of an architect on this, because I suspect there’s a lot that non-architects don’t understand about “great buildings.”

More like Bryson DeChapeau, amirite?

I don’t care too much either way, but it’s very much possible to make excellent episodes of tv, while simultaneously kind of losing your way as a series (also, they killed all the good actors).

Excuse me, Drew’s room is on the second floor and his parents’ house doesn’t even have a basement.

If anything, it’s kind of funny that the people advocating acting like complete sociopaths to coworkers who aren’t union members are basically a who’s-who of Splinter’s trolls.

I love Dawn. She really is one of the most consistently creative and interesting musicians working. I don’t know that new breed quite got to the heights of her previous work, but she’s on a four album hot streak. There’s some really amazing stuff in there.