It’s quite the gem of a post. Not only is there basically no point here (very, very obviously this was coordinated by the USWNT and wasn’t some independent idea dozens of men’s sports teams had to give their dudes shine), they also hilariously somehow spun one of the worst practices of internet #content manufacturing…

Holy shit you guys are tiresome.

This is actually a really nice and elegant solution. Her crazy heel turn makes a lot more sense if you first see that she’s so power-obsessed she abandons Winterfell to take the Iron Throne.

There is no GoT-approved strategy, though, which is one of the things I always liked about the show. Ned was just and noble and got his head chopped off. Rob Stark was decent and principle and got goddamn massacred. Joffrey was an insolent little monster and died. Tywin was a conniving realpolitik cocksucker and he…

It’s not about whether one likes the zombies. It’s about coherent writing.

Goddamn, seriously.

There is no way to get out of the fact that the writers have fucked this up badly.

Then it did a stupid fucking job being about politics, lineage and power by using the army of the dead as a massive plot device to diminish those very things for nearly the entire duration of the show.

The article’s logic is that this show’s dumb fucking writers spent more than half a real-life decade making a very interesting point through immersive character-building and storytelling about how, as Albert put it, “all the politicking and squabbling over hierarchy and rule ultimately is a harmful distraction from…

You guys treated this credulous WaPo garbage rather nicely compared to the fucking conniption you threw about Charlotte Wilder and her dumb hot dogs.

The thing with Tiafoe, it seems to me, is that he thrives most when a match is open and he can be bold and creative and take risks. Whether that’s through an athleticism advantage like against Anderson or when it’s a matching of styles like when he beat Milos Raonic back in August.

If you have a good rim protector and a mobile 4 you can send four to the three-point line and choose your double while leaving Draymond open. Coaches lose their nerve the first time it winds up with Green going to the bucket, drawing the center, and laying off to Kevon Looney for an easy dunk, but I think on balance…

It was one of those things I rejected for a long time. But then it’s like, yeah, I get it.

Look, I’m sure there’s some amount of disappointment not making it in the NBA. But he played for healthy European teams, Khimki is a strong team, Anadolu Efes in Turkey is a strong team. He played pretty close to the top tier of European basketball, probably made close to a million bucks in some individual seasons.

Just remember, we A’s fans are also (mostly) Warriors fans. Which means fuck us anyway, I think.

I disagree with this narrative. We really were a Chris Paul hamstring away from avoiding all of this.

They didn’t play the Clippers that year. The Rockets beat them.

Well, there is the matter that she herself is saying under oath she made it all up as a scheme to take money from him and ruin his career.

I mean, that’s of course true. I don’t think I missed that point so much as I think it goes without saying.

Conservatives still don’t seem to get, or either won’t acknowledge, that they dropped a nuke on political norms. The left gave you Barack Obama, a politician that for however else you might fault him, was kind and patient and forgiving many many times over than he had any obligation to be.