“The use of the word ‘franchise,’ we don’t take lightly. . . . We’ve studied the best. Some have been around 30, 40, 50 years.”

Yeah, there were a number of moments that seemed to hint at something more to him, but nothing really came out of any of them, so his role (at least this season) is just “teen dick”.

There are three possible outcomes for the 49ers in this:

Why wasn’t no. 94 “Getting hit by a bus driven by a Christian”?

The NCAA almost had to do this to perpetuate the myth of the student-athlete upon which the entire multi-billion dollar enterprise is built. Its not the games the athletes play that matters so much as its the classes the students attend that matter. Horseshit.

I’m not sure how I feel about Eleven’s growth. On the one hand, its a natural progression for the character: puberty is always where superpowers begin to first manifest. But she’s about to run the show into the Superman problem for Season 3: how do you have an interesting conflict when you have a god on one side? …

Germain, I disagree with your assessment of Paul Reiser. I think the intention of the character is to keep us guessing as to the current nature of Hawkins Labs: while we know it was evil as fuck before last season, now we’re not sure. They seem to be trying to help Will, but maybe they’re not? They seem to be…

I’m not sure why even false claims of death threats are sufficient to justify firing for cause. I’m sure there is a conduct clause in his contract that allows dismissal for besmirching the reputation of the program, but I don’t see how seeking sympathy via lies does anything but besmirch McElwain’s reputation. …

In Benjamin’s defense, once he had his eyes on the ball (and then turned backwards to recover his own drop), he couldn’t know that the Patriots’ coverage guys had outrun the Chargers’ blockers. So picking up the ball and starting to run (rather than just going out of bounds) is a somewhat defensible idea. From that…

“ESPN shit-for-brains Stephen A. Smith.”

To crib from io9's recap entries, a few assorted musings:

Which is the problem. As long as you continue to treat every insane utterance and blatant lie as if it were something an actual, responsible adult human would say, you normalize the Trump administration and assist it in its mission of destroying rational analysis of the world. ABC, CNN, the New York Times, NPR; I…

Please. No. Just . . . no.

Smoltz brought this concept up last night during the game. Dave Roberts has received a lot of credit for his team’s success, in large part because of how good the Dodgers’ bullpen has become over the season: they had difficulty getting to Jansen early in the season, made some moves, moved guys around, and then become…

In order to actually utilize the anonymity promised by the Dark Web, don’t you have to use it only on a dedicated device? Like, here’s my Mac for emailing my grandmother and reading Lifehacker, but here’s my PC which I only use to discuss The Anarchist’s Cookbook on Jotunbane’s Reading Club and hire assassins.

Two years ago, my son’s girlfriend had an Italian girl living with her for their junior year of HS. I am one of those parents that talk to their kids’ friends and she was nice enough to put up with it and smart enough to be interesting. I joked with her that if the Republicans ended up being stupid enough to…

Only if the intention of all intercollegiate sports is, like professional sports, to make money. You are accepting the status quo that “unless the championship game is on one of the ESPN channels, its not a real sport” argument the pollutes all this. Who benefits from this perspective? Certainly the coaches and…

This show was never on the air.

Because I like the concept of Whiterose being the omniscient, omnipotent villain, I bought into the Trump thing. Everyone tries to ascribe various rationales for Trump’s behavior, but I think he really boils down to one simple, guiding force: people must think I’m the best. Everything else serves that simple idea,…

Watching Negan parade around without anyone taking a shot on him was bad enough (I mean, they shot a whole bunch of look-outs from distance; where was those marksmen?)