Boy you just hate everyone to your left. (Which, incidentally, is everyone to the left of centrist.)

I didn’t know that!

Really enjoyed this piece.

And Bitcoin farms!

Like what you like, and allow other people to not like it if they don’t like it. It’s no insult to you if other people don’t share your tastes.

This has been more or less my position for a long time, but I have real concerns about contact sports, particularly combat sports. Because you can’t take PEDs to make getting punched in the face less dangerous, but you can take PEDs to make punching someone in the face more dangerous.

This is literally the opposite of the case; here, there’s a thousand people saying that you should take whatever you want for free, with no guilt. Including Luke Plunkett.

I agree with you about violent video games and I’m not at all in favor of any kind of censorship of art, including video games.

It’s the middle of winter in Australia.

Don’t forget that if Timmy hadn’t hurt his knee in 2001 they might have broken up the Lakers threepeat.

I wrote that article. The whole point is that the archetype is so loose, vague, and uninformative that it can provide no actual good to anyone.

Which is exactly why it’s meaningless! It gives us no propositional content!

No, the point is that this level of analysis is meaningless. It has no more utility than saying “stories have a beginning, middle, and end!” It’s not that it’s wrong, it’s that it’s not even wrong. It doesn’t rise to the level of saying something sufficient to be wrong.

... what? That article is criticizing John Edwards and comparing this sort of “all stories are the same” nonsense to his style of cold reading.

Name a fictional story that has a unique plot and characters.

No, I’m sorry, I’ve heard this all before. It’s just as trite and unhelpful as the first time. Every terrible novelist and screenwriter in the world is ruining themselves trying to fit these story beats. It’s a curse on narrative fiction.

I mean, if you want to write a formulaic, trite story, sure.

He cuts just like everyone else does. Height does not define a weight class! That’s the dumbest meme in MMA. His opponent walks around at 230!

A 41 year old natural middleweight whose Achilles heel was always physical wrestlers is going to fight Daniel Cormier at 205 pounds on three days notice. Sounds legit.

This has gotta be the most condescending thing I’ve ever read. Dwyane Wade is a grown man. He’s worth millions of dollars. He’s a savvy businessman. I 100% agree with criticizing the Heat. But Wade is not some mark who got played, and acting like that’s the case isn’t showing him respect. It’s the opposite.