Ha, my first thought was that this is pretty short, for a Haisley column.

This is... not true? Surely somewhere in your 25 years of study you’ve become aware of the fact that zoning decisions in Houston are made on a neighborhood-wide basis but enforced by the city? So it’s not zoning only because the decisions are made not at the city level but at an even-more hyperlocal neighborhood…

“it’s not like a mayor or city council could wave a magic wand and change policies enough to solve the problem”...

If you’ve been studying, teaching, and researching urban and economic geography for nearly 25 years and haven’t figured out that restrictive zoning is the main reason there’s a housing shortage, I feel like maybe you should find a new field.

“sci-fi tech opera”

In short, yes, I go out of my way to change it back to gchat. Hangouts has always been a buggy mess for me: chats not coming through, contacts being shown as “available” when they are not (or vice versa) and frankly shitty emoticons. I’m very upset about the change because it means I’m going from a good, easy…

“he Major wonders more about who she was and where she’s been, rather than who she really is and what part specifically differentiates her from others.”

I mean, it’s not out of the realm of possibility. If Rockstar explicitly stated that they would provide story DLC, and if someone alleged and proved that they bought the game expecting DLC, the plaintiff could theoretically recover the cost of the game. But in the real world, I can’t imagine such a case proceeding…

My easy solution no one will ever implement is just to not allow mid-season rule changes. Change rules at the end of the season, tweak until the next season begins, and then stick with them (for good or ill) until the season ends. There’s no rush!

I mean, I’m not about to stan for the Ringer here, I just think it’s better than dismissing it as total trash. Their NFL and NBA writers are good, and I wish they wrote about soccer more because when they do I like it. I can’t tell you how their baseball coverage is because baseball is dull. Their culture coverage…

My take on Deadspin’s hatred for Simmons is the usual “you hate the person most like yourself” thing: Simmons talks out of his ass, is an unrepentant homer, and relies on the same three or four gimmicks in his writing and analysis. So do most of Deadspin’s writers (particularly the ones most vocal about their…

I mean, it’s not? It was rough starting up but as far as providing good information and reporting on sports, it’s definitely better than Deadspin. Also, it shares approximately 70% of the writers with Grantland, so I’m not sure how it could go to being “total trash.”

There needs to be a way to block out baseball content on Deadspin. This site’s baseball writing makes me cringe with embarrassment. I mean, look at that headline. An adult human typed that, signed his name to it, and hit publish. It’s as though the only way they can think to relieve the tedium of baseball is to…

What exactly is it in you that makes you decide “yes, my online commenting persona will be the ignorant, violent guy.”

It’s almost as though having a 24 year-old write cultural and historical criticism will invariably lead to shallow, half-baked results.

Lots of people, they just don’t end up so damaged as to become internet commenters.

I was pleasantly surprised last week when I discovered I could revert to gchat in Hangouts. Every other “messaging” service that Google has put out hasn’t worked as well or reliably as gchat.

I’m pretty sure they’re embarrassing because they highlight how arbitrary and dumb all sports-related traditions and rivalries are. It’s not like NYC FC and New York Red Bulls’ rivalry is that much more logical or time-honored than, say, the Steelers v. Patriots.

God, I hope not. I don’t care about the 76ers one way or the other, but goddamn Embiid is fun to watch.

You know, I think there’s a parallel between the Catholic Church and Baseball. Both have two camps: purist conservatives who want to keep the product the way it has been, even if it drives away people away. And there are people who want the product to evolve in order to stay relevant and popular.