I would like to see a new ball added after every 15 minutes of scoreless minutes played.

If this isn’t a cry for help from Jürgen, I don’t know what is.

A pretty boneheaded move. Sure, he wasn’t going to injure the linesman, but that doesn’t matter in the slightest. Like in any competitive sport, you do not touch the officials.

I still strongly believe that Wideman deserved a much longer suspension for that. Completely unacceptable, even the claim “didn’t know it was a ref,” or “wasn’t looking” can’t even be valid seeing how he hit him pretty hard from behind after glancing up twice.

Do you mean jeopardizing the health of his best player by playing him a ton of minutes every game?

Oh so close, just missing a t.

Rural Alberta is fairly conservative, but Calgary is quite progressive for the most part. Even that conservative element is fairly center in comparison to US conservatism. You certainly have a religious right but it plays a far smaller role and there’s a long history of multiculturalism even in smaller prairie towns.

Well yes, the thing I left unsaid was that the design/compromise of the Constitution heavily featured “throw bones to the states where slavery is most entrenched so they don’t get huffy”.

California would have 64 electors if it were based strictly on population. 12.15% of the U.S. population is in California, and there are 538 electors.

No place is actually a political monolith. More people voted for Trump in California than the combined population of multiple states (that went for Trump).

Your logic seems reasonable, but do you have any statistics to back this up? I was under the impression that nearly all population growth in CA over the past 20 years or so can be attributed to minority groups- not exactly rust belt demographics.

UMMMM EXCUSE ME BUT SURELY THE EDUCATION THEY GAIN IN THE D-LEAGUE IS EXTREMELY VALUABLE

Soon we’ll all need Coyotes to lead us into Canada.

Do you... do you think you can just cheaply fly from any city to any other city whenever you’d like on a privately owned airline?

I equate that with the postage stamp argument. I forget which comedian I first heard it from about 20 years ago, although it sounds like a Louis C. K. bit, but I think it was well before him.

Society at large’s focus on how bad airports and commercial air travel are has always rubbed me the wrong way because it affects such a minuscule number of people and those people are inherently much more well-off than the rest of us landlubbers if they can afford to fly with enough regularity to even notice these…

Love flying in and out of PDX. There’s always a folksy band or guitarist playing in the concourse. It’s so friendly

Unpopular opinion: Flying is actually an incredible value given that the above-mentioned flying greyhound bus can put you anywhere in the country in a handful of hours and just about anywhere in the world in less than a day. Obviously it would be nice if it were cheaper and more comfortable, but still.

Eh, I prefer these  calls in football

So, this is why we don’t do this. Nothing you just said suggested that dentists are dangerous to others, only themselves, and only in a statistical sense. That’s a huge step into someone’s privacy and is easily abused. Queer people have higher suicide rates, and imagine if a Republican legislature got to decide who…