Stay on the easy bracket? And dishonor their Viking ancestors feasting and battling in the halls of Valhalla? This is peasant speech. In the hearts of every Englishman and Frenchman beats the ancient fear of longships spotted on the horizon, coming their way.

Washington D.C. (Politico): After weeks of debate and a deadlocked Senate President Richard Sherman finally passed his stadium reform bill by having VP Marshawn Lynch cast the deciding vote. “When it came down to what to do it was a no-brainer to have Marshawn carry it across the goal,” the President said afterwards.

Fighting in baseball is dumb. Fighting in hockey is dumb. Fighting in any non-fighting sport is dumb...and I love it so, so much.

The best part is when the bullpens run to the brawl from the outfield...right next to each other

Slight correction. Semenya is XY but due to the 5-ARD gene condition discussed in this article does not have male genitalia. She was raised as a woman. I don’t think this makes it any less murky (arguably moreso), but I do think it is a distinction worth noting.

It is definitely not all testosterone based. The biochemical events that lead to intersexuality actually can affect the body’s ability to make use of the testosterone inside it, so it’s very complicated.

If he were young, and could handle the training, he’d probably have a similar ceiling. Her ceiling is well above 99.999% of women, and most low-T men.

This is a hard thing to quantify. Semenya is obviously the best 800m runner in the women’s field. She runs an 800m far faster than the “average man” regardless of his testosterone levels. But so do all collegiate women runners.

Testosterone levels in men, in general, do have similar performance implications. This is…

I think both of your statements are correct. She’s running times in the 400 and 800 that only really fast young guys are running, so I’d be shocked if many low-T men could post her times in those races.

I hope they get them printed on canvas with little led lights

I like that. It’s like the guy who spends weeks leaving the factory where he works hauling wheelbarrows full of dirt every night. Every night the security guards search the dirt, but they don’t find anything. Turns out he was stealing wheelbarrows.

Men don’t do that.... they have to spend 3 hours working out, trimming their beard, and oiling up their abs.

The most important question of the day.

If a woman didn’t do makeup, they’d say “she needs to look presentable.”

If she did, they’d say, “she just wants to use her looks.”

naw it’s not uncommon in showbiz. just the other day i was watching an episode of the good wife where they made fun of an actor who put make-up on her breasts. of course some people don’t know this is a thing precisely because of that culture of normalizing lots of make-up to seem “natural;” people think nicely…

I can’t remember exactly who it was or what blog post it was, but recently on Deadspin a writer wrote something along the lines of:

To add a bit of detail, it’s essential that the ball hit the bowler’s face. If it hadn’t touched a fielder before hitting the stumps, it wouldn’t be a run-out.

This is all the proof you really need.

They officials aren’t any worse. There are just more camera angles.