Boy did you get that wrong. Bono's inspiration for Bullet the Blue Sky was his awe at the wide open spaces of the American West and the sight of fighter jets overhead-about as different from the Irish landscape as you can get. It's actually a love song to America. I think older Bono would not be penning that song…

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Your "buddy" either flies a 747 or a 777, or doesn't exist. Captains for major airlines fly one type of equipment. Also, a major airline captain flying a heavy is at the apex of their profession. If you want to compare apples to apples you should compare a 747 captain to a cardiologist, not a general practitioner. …

Can I think about it? There's this thing called "reducing the public confidence" that is a punishable offense in my job. I am retiring in a couple years and would have no problem doing that afterward.

It sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. If you consider flying a CRJ for a regional " making the grade" you're a very easy grader. It would be easy to get lured into a dick measuring contest here. But all I was trying to say is that you don't fuck around with safety. If a pilot deliberately misses…

Accusatory tone? Allow me to explain myself. When a pilot slow taxis, or misses the high speed exit, or does anything outside of the expected, he or she is reducing the margin of safety in the system. I'm sure your friend "Mike" is a great guy. He probably has a lot of fun stories. I'd probably love to have a few…

Well, it's no Grand Rapids!

Do me a favor "Mike." I'm a 31 year air traffic controller. Cut the shit. Be professional. Get your passengers where they're going as safely and quickly as possible. This business isn't a game.

That was a fascinating story. However, I'm left wondering why some foreign players are allowed to bypass the amateur draft while others-and American players-are required to enter via the draft? This seems wrong. There should be no draft or everyone should have to enter via the draft. In a weird way we are…

The full mnemonic is ""'I before 'E' except after 'C'; and don't you dare put a motherfucking 'K' after that shit either or I'll murder the fuck outta you-unless it's to say fuCK or any of its derivatives, or sounds like neighbor or weigh."

Lighten up Francis.

BMW employs a chap by the name of Michael Scully, who has a bit of experience in making things go fast. Not only is he a designer with BMW DesignWorks USA, but he's also a former race car driver himself. Scully went through 69 different designs before settling on the one the team is using in Sochi, so he seems like…

The average time between pitches for MLB in 2011, (I'm lazy, that's the first result that I got from Google), was 21.5 seconds. I listened to this play-by-play for about 10 minutes. During that time the quickest pace was 10 seconds between pitches. The slowest was 19 seconds after a foul out of play with a man on…

I've written, and deleted prior to submission, a ton of comments on this excellent remembrance. I'll just say this. I've know so many people who have thrown away their talent and their lives because of drugs and alcohol. What I've learned is that there is no rational response when this happens. I mostly just shake my…

"That's right, voting committee, you're lazy. You're indolent, slothful, petulant, ignorant, and flat-out stupid. You perpetuate the same small-minded "Oh, he's just a kicker" stereotype every single time you refuse to acknowledge that Ray Guy belongs in the Hall of Fame, because YOU'RE UNWILLING TO LEARN."

Oh, wait a second. For some reason I thought he was an offensive lineman. He's actually an offending quarterback. Let's go with "intentional grounding, loss of down, loss of scholarship."

Ten yard penalty for holding. Replay the down.

Well said. Not only did i have no problem with his adrenaline rush; not only do I think he's a heck of a CB; I find this guy to be pretty damned likable.

"Drug dealing just to get by/Stack your money ‘til it gets sky high.” “As a shorty I looked up to the dopeman/Only adult man that I knew that wasn’t broke man.” “This dope money here is little Tre’s scholarship/Cause ain’t no tuition for having no ambition/And ain’t no loans for sittin on you’re ass at home/So we…

Full disclosure; I am a life-long Patriots fan. That said, shut up Tom. LaDanian Tomlinson and the 2004 Chargers may disagree. And just like it wasn't classy for LT to say that he was classy it's not gracious for Brady to say that he's gracious.