Thank you! Finally someone speaking sense!

Gotta love the policy of making Afghanistan “Russia’s Vietnam” (which basically worked) and then completely forgetting why it worked in like 15 years.

This is a golden opportunity for Andrew Yang. Someone tweet at him about this!

Yeah, I’d appreciate that. It’s also frustrating that all the takes are framed around how the Pelicans don’t deserve Zion, which, as I said above, is a category error. If they were arguing that Zion doesn’t deserve to be forced into playing for a crappily run team, I agree! But, once again, the lottery is where the…

To be clear, I do not think this is a good hire, but mostly because the record of college coaches in the NBA is pretty mediocre (Stevens is the only good one recently?). There are plenty of active coaches who have difficulties with various parts of their job and only some of them are self-aware enough to delegate.…

The argument broadly advanced over the past few months by the Deadspin staff—that the Pelicans do not deserve nice things for wasting Anthony Davis—is not a very good one.

Wasn’t Michigan a shut-down defensive team this year? I see your point here, but there are approximately 90000000 examples of coaches insisting on calling plays/coaching defense/being GM/whatever, despite clearly being absolutely no good at it. I’m no real fan of Beilein, but good leaders delegate and play to their…

Also, none of the rights in the Bill of Rights are absolute! We have plenty of government restrictions on speech and most of them are broadly non-controversial. Like, there are plenty of limits on, I dunno, attorney advertising, and no one really thinks they’re deleterious to our democracy.

If Biden sincerely believes this shit, he’s either incredibly stupid or incredibly naive. The GOP was intensely obstructionist years before Donald Trump ran for president. We know that Joe Biden is not capable of talking these people into compromise, because he didn’t do it when he was Vice President. What’s changed…

Playoffs are necessary if you’re not going to run a true round robin. If you run an unbalanced schedule, some teams will get screwed (e.g., the Rays have to play the Red Sox and Yankees 18 times each, while the Indians have to play the Tigers and Royals 18 times each). The only way a no-playoffs structure works is…

And obviously the set of people who apply to be on the show is going to be incredibly biased towards single people. Someone should’ve taken intro to stats in college.

At one point, I do think the answer to that question would have been “racism,” but the past 11 years of US politics, I think, have shone the GOP the strength of basically never compromising. As a result, I think the answer to “what separates you from President Obama that will allow you to create a compromise that…

Ha, Korematsu is no longer good precedent. The Court overturned it in Trump v. Hawaii (of course, the Trump precedent is basically the same, but the opinion says Korematsu was overturned).

Without leaving the realm of what actually happens in American constitutional law, the most the Supreme Court can really do is announce that there is no Constitutional right to an abortion, which leaves it up to the individual states. The reason here is twofold: (1) the Supreme Court has a “case or controversy”…

Yeah, I mean, I think spending a lot of time in the wilderness did some good things for him. It’s a lot easier to like a role player than a star.

Remember when JJ Redick was the most obnoxious Duke guy since Laettner? The guy with the abortion contract and the terrible poetry? Crazy he’s beloved now.

Lots of parents frantically looking for nicknames for “Khaleesi” at about 11pm eastern last night. Like naming your kid after Idi Amin or something.

$5 says it comes out that someone senior in the NRA was banging the summer intern.

Weekend at Bernie’s-as-a-gritty-drama Jonathan Silverman.

Buddy looks like allergic reaction David Schwimmer.