I know—I wish I had checked the betting odds. I doubt the bookies and sharp bettors were “stunned.” It’s TV.

Gee, you really know all the volleyball lingo.

No.

“A Cubs spokesperson tells us that the person who played the song did not do so intentionally, but was acting carelessly when he did so.” What the hell does that mean? How do you play a song unintentionally?

She certainly was, because the dive didn’t give her any extra speed (probably slowed her) and she crossed first.

Well, it didn’t hurt her in terms of not finishing first, but it might have delayed her finish line crossing slightly; in another race it might have cost her first.

You are kind of assuming that a cup of pool water would look as blue as piss looks yellow. It would be clear/colorless.

The Cubs have demonstrated that most MLB teams and many players are fundamentally unsound in comparison. Time after time the Cubs have won games at the end by not really doing anything but let the opponent hand them the game, whether through errors, walks, wild pitches, or absolute failure to execute offensive plays.

They’re not crazy; there’s no risk to them in asking an absurd price and hoping someone fooled by the publicity will bite.

This became a myth that just snowballed. And the media are always just too happy to conflate an absurdly high ebay asking price with actual market value. And the kind of hopeful greed that fuels the awful Antiques Roadshow and the like makes people want to think that they have junk lying around that is worth thousands.

I think you are reaching with this. As commonly used, scourge does not have the connotation as some sort of deserved punishment.

I know; the piece also spoke of alkalinity as if it is a thing in itself. It is simply a relative term referring to the base side of the pH scale, like acidity for the acid side. “If the alkalinity and pH are at proper levels” is rather redundant, sort of like, “if the warmth of the air and the temperature are at…

The government mindset is that government always is or should be involved.

It’s just for part of a day! Is a pond chlorinated? How about when a bunch of folks romp in a public fountain? Sometimes people just take risks.

There are studies addressing that. The “too many vaccines” theory is a way for people who don’t have science on their side to cling to some plausible way to question the safety of vaccines. Ben Carson pulled that one out!

The party’s positions on genetically modified crops and anything associated with them is outside the lines of science too.

But the way she said it basically excluded any adult woman of today. She said a little girl out there will be the next one.

Of course, she didn’t appear last night. I guess a stock photo was the way to go.