I miss the days when a movie was a movie and not an entry in a “franchise.”

This was one of my favorite episodes of this show in a long time. It managed to clarify the battle lines of what has been a confusing plot, brought the larger stakes of that plot back down to the relationship between Elliot and Darlene, and nodded once again to the way in which Elliot’s psyche can complicate the…

Norms as “pleasant fictions” is one of the scariest aspects of our current situation. When you begin to work out in your head how this is all going to play out, and what the avenues are for checking Trump when he truly strives for the authoritarian power he craves, you find little in our system to truly stop him. The…

The sports press insists that what people want in their coverage are dramatic storylines and it turns sports into a soap opera. Meanwhile, there is so much strategy and technical know-how going into on-the-field strategy that we almost never hear about. These guys work and study their asses off to execute their game…

Is it too much to hope for a semblance of a happy ending for Jesse?

Stick to sports. [sarcasm]

This Clue reboot is super gritty.

I thought I was having de ja vu reading this story, but no, this exact thing happened just a few years ago. https://jalopnik.com/man-and-car-missing-since-2006-found-in-lake-submerged-1742646530

My favorite Remember Some Guys episode ever. All of these cards are from my prime years of baseball card collecting/Mets fandom. In the 1986-87 off season, I saw Tim Teufel at a public appearance somewhere. I remember even then thinking, “Really, Teufel is the best this place could do?”

This season has basically said that this thing that brought all these women together and gave them purposes and second chances actually kind of sucks. It’s said that they’d all rather be doing something else.

Count me among those who sees absolutely zero purpose for even entertaining the idea of sending people to Mars. 

You have to define what a “non-simultaneous touch” is for us non-swimmer types. 

Is there a way to ensure that whenever someone Google’s the names of these letter writers that this post lands right at the top of the results?

After all these years, I still want to know what the deal was with those keys up on the table.

Update: Harper’s WAR on baseball reference sits at .5, about half of Juan Soto.

When a reader learns more about a subject from the comment section than the article itself, that’s a problem.

I’m also grandfathered into a cheap plan—5 gb of data with 100 minutes of talk time for $30 a month. There is no data plan available that can top that (and I rarely use 100 minutes so the “unlimited talk” plans are not much of a draw). I will be so sad the day they take it away from me.

Baseball Reference has him at .1 WAR right now. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harpebr03.shtml

When Drew turns his sights on something you enjoy...the hurt is just too much.

The Nats may be struggling, but let’s not pretend that Harper and his .1 WAR so far this season would have made any difference.