The sheer randomness of their inception, though, means it would be totally fine if we one day decided to change them, too.

Oh come on! http:www.Sketchy.Virus.RU always has the matches you need.

A very good friend of mine passed away yesterday from cancer. He was a kind, hilarious man and a great father of three young children.

He was good, friendly, affable, generous man. With a family. A small daughter. Who tortured and killed animals to entertain a mob.

I think you have to defend on a thing on its own merits. Invoking cultural relativism means you also have to accept things like genital mutilation, sharia law, etc.

This argument hinges on the definition of how you define the “best” confederation. The top 3 teams in CONCACAF are probably slightly better than the top 3 from either Africa or Asia, but the quality dries up so quickly after that. Martinique has managed to be good enough relative to the competition to qualify for 2 of…

Eh, I’d say it is. UEFA and Commebol are clearly the top 2, Oceania is clearly 6th, so ranking 3rd, 4th and 5th is the question. Asia maybe has a case to make, but their typical best teams are Japan, South Korea and (now thanks to the wonkiness of FIFA) Australia. But I don’t think those nations are generally better…

There are anti-dog trolls now?

I hope they don’t actually plan on spending time explaining the Force and balance and whatnot because it is all thoroughly silly and they could spend that time with lasers and shit.

The media jumped on the reporting about Dao because the info is available and they need to keep a steady stream of related articles out there to get the clicks. They’d have to do actual legwork and put in some time to track down the officers who dragged the guy off the plane.

Snicker all you want, but if he can create an extra roster spot by competently covering 2 necessary roles on a big league team he’s worth his weight in gold. What if, in return for having a light hitting backup C and a capable mop up man, you could have a good pinch hitter from both the right and left sides? I think…

If Mark Davis doesn’t want fans to be overwhelmed at the new stadium, he should insist on a simple bowl design.

Tom Hamilton is a gem. I desperately want to hear him call a World Series clincher before his time is through.

k9 on k2 hangs 10, film at 11.

“These people have awful names.”

Enjoying the Knicks in their “purest form” is like a bad strain of heroin; no one wants it, even if they think they do.

Canadian Barbara Bush.

This guy definitely walks away from explosions without looking back.

“Game over, man!” is his most famous line/delivery from Aliens (and deservedly so), but my favorite Paxton line from that movie is when Ripley is yelling at him about how “this little girl survived longer than that by herself!” and he just goes “Well why don’t you put her in charge?!”

RIP. 61 is way too fucking young…

Seems like something an irrational person would say. I mean what nut job thinks Chicago deep dish is pizza is venerable. It’s about as pizza as olive garden is Italian food.