I keep thinking that defunct shopping malls would be good for this. They’ve got lots of small, divided spaces, restrooms, food service, delivery areas, plenty of parking, usually decent transportation access, power, etc. Would cost some money to transform them, but I would guess most if not all metro areas have a…

I cannot begin to tell  you the number of times I have been shocked to discover that what I consider to be basic math, basic information, basic understanding about the world is actually foreign to many people. For example, if someone told me to just tell the bank I wouldn’t be making anymore payments on my loan of…

Or her friends do.

He’s not very smart. He also misspelled “Al Qaeda” some months ago.

I’d bet just about anything that the contractor they hired kind of hurridly went around the crew on hand that day and said “uh, so the President wants experts to climb this thing, any of you ever climbed before?” and they took the two dudes that once hiked up a hill and said “ok, climb it!” and gave them no equipment,…

As we learn more about CTE and other forms of trauma with neurological consequences, I think saying that “willing participants know said risks” might be inaccurate. Was Patrick Day capable of assessing his own physical condition shortly before he was knocked out? Does a 40 year old boxer with 50 fights under his belt…

Yeah, Josh Marshall has said that when you read Trump’s comments more than anything else you’re left with the impression that he’s a guy who believes he is constantly being wiretapped. 

While we’re on the subject of pieces of conventional wisdom that make no sense, I’ve never understood why coaches ALWAYS call a timeout to avoid a 5 yard delay of game penalty, even when it’s midway through the 1st/3rd quarter and it wouldn’t kill them to lose 5 yards. Yet announcers are always like “gotta call a…

Yes. 

I made good (well, decent) money the first few times I did it as well, it’s almost as though the app gives more/better rides to new drivers to convince them it’s worth it. The second week I drove (probably 20 hours total), I spent more time waiting for rides than I spent driving. 

“Ensuring you earn a minimum of approximately $21 per hour when driving with a passenger or going to pick them up”

I was “that one kid” growing up in the 80s who didn’t have a TV, and *that* made it harder for me to connect, socially. And TV had nothing to do with communication between friends, so I can’t even imagine how difficult it must be, socially, to be “that one kid” at the school who doesn’t have a smartphone. Doesn’t mean…

My wife pants’d me a few years ago and broke her finger doing it. (Hooked in the elastic waistband of my sweats.) Worst injury explanation EVER. 

For some reason I find that gross little slicked down bit of hair over his ears to be one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen. 

I guess that’s the answer to the question “how can I get my Saab’s transmission to go out twice as fast?” 

The most underrated thing about the Portland airport is the Port of Portland policy that requires restaurants in the airport to charge the exact same prices they charge outside the airport. This means that not only is the food super good, but reasonably priced as well. 

“Foray,” “masticating,” “venture,” “dissipated”... it’s hard to see how this guy isn’t absolutely swimming it, given the sexxxy way he writes about bonin’ and bangin’. 

People also cling to POC in their lives as a reason for why they are NOT racist. “I can’t be racist, my sister in law is black,” etc. 

I’m ambivalent about him *for President* but would fund the shit out of his campaign if he quit tomorrow and announced he was running against that absolute fraud John Cornyn for Senate. 

My random Matt Nokes story: he went to my junior high school, probably 10 years before me, so when he had his great rookie year, I naturally figured that a book in our library that had his name in it would be worth money, so I went through *every book in the school library* and looked at the table in the inside cover…