While that is being done, I would also like to see a diminishing returns factor input for teams that are repeatedly in the bottom 5 to discourage “The Process” from ever happening again. Reduce their chances each consecutive year even if they are still the worst team in the NBA.

Your comparison is inapt: the non-acronym plural of run-batted-in is runs-batted-in, but the non-acronym plural of quarterback is quarterbacks, not quarters-back.

No. People can’t not do illegal drugs. And having an unpopular opinion doesn’t automatically make you some ultra-rational speaker of plain truths. Sometimes opinions are unpopular because their fucking stupid, and holding them just makes you a naive idiot. 

....If only everyone who ended up doing hard drugs was raised in a nice, level-headed environment which engendered high amounts of self-confidence and esteem and imparted myriad stress-reduction mechanisms aside from substance abuse.

....if only.....

Nowadays at movie theaters they actually card young-looking people at R-rated movies.

It was a weird time, the Dixie Chicks were almost forcibly deported

I’ve had the same problem with the Dolezal story — why is everyone so angry and mocking of a woman who seemed to be reacting to (a) her white parent’s ill treatment of her black adopted siblings, and (b) an art teacher who told her that her art about the black experience was inappropriate because Dolezal herself was…

And I bet a lot of people could have gotten a lot out of her story if she just chose to be honest about it from the beginning. Identifying with another culture is fine. It makes perfect sense she felt more accepted by the black community. So just be that, be a white person who feels accepted by the black community,…

I don’t think she is being accused of being a white supremacist, so much as she is a product of institutionalized white supremacy, whether she is aware of it or not. I think the back story you’ve referenced here actually reenforces that assertion.

I don’t know what he was TRYING to say. But what he effectively said was “I’m from Hialeah, and like a great number of Hialeans I am deeply racist.”

Holy shit, commenters are putting you on blast and I think it’s completely undeserved.

I just feel sad hearing this.

On a normal shot(*) that puck is going to hug the boards, go around, and come out the other side. Both teams know that and so they’ll target the other side boards to try to get to it. A goalie will therefore go back there and intercept the puck so they can pass it out to their own teammate, which sets up the play…

Because he was expecting the puck to follow the boards around the back of the net like it does every other time. He collects the puck and gets it ready for the defenceman to get it as he skates around the back of the net (theory being that if the puck is placed centrally behind the net the defenceman can collect it as…

He’s going to end up dead, either by cop or by self.
This isn’t someone who’s planning on going to jail, and he’s not a skin color that will get a McD trip and kevlar vest.

Is Ramzan Kadyrov saying that the LGBT community does not exist in Chechnya because family members of LGBT persons would have killed them already? Because... I don’t think that’s making the claim he wants to be making.

Right. He knew that the crew knew, he knew he would be in situations where he might accidentally tip his hand, he knew there were cameras everywhere, he knew he was taking a risk by confiding in another player. And this is his SECOND TIME. It very much sounds like he accepted that there was a risk of it coming out and…

No, Varner wouldn’t have known during filming, because Varner never saw Zeke’s first season prior to flying to Fiji. Zeke is one of very few players to film 2 seasons back-to-back without his first season airing beforehand. Varner had literally no idea who this dude was when they stepped on the beach. He put it…

Remember, he was a returnee castmember: I think the fact that CBS chose to not use it as a dramatic tool in his previous appearance (can you imagine another reality show doing that?) suggests that they were pretty much as Zeke has outlined. 

I don’t think Kim would agree to it because he knows it would lead to the collapse of his regime. If the sanctions were lifted, there would be more contact with the outside world. This would lead to mass defections when people see the economic opportunity of the rest of the world, without the propaganda of the state…