These moments of silence following shootings are fitting. They perfectly exemplify all that those in power do to prevent these tragedies from happening again, which is absolutely nothing.

He’s bad defensively and not efficient on the offensive end, where he needs the ball in his hands, which makes it difficult for him to have a positive impact. But I’m willing to be patient when judging his offensive ability simply because he’s still just 23 and has had one healthy season out of four.

A hot dog is just a hot dog because nobody would ever say, “Hey, let’s go to that deli around the corner, I feel like a sandwich,” because they want to eat a hot dog.

People really have some issues if they can’t at least enjoy a bunch of Duke frosh ripping the souls out of an arena full of Kentucky fans. If there’s one result Duke haters should be able to at least stomach it is what transpired last night.

I’ll just be over here cackling at the thought of people who believe this Duke team won’t be able to handle Kansas or make it past, like, TCU in the Sweet 16.

I’d rather someone be motivated to vote because Rihanna or Taylor Swift posted a tweet than because a candidate strongly appealed to their insecure/racist/homophobic/entitled/selfish/oblivious/victim-playing nature.

I’d be much more excited to see Ava2r, Ava3r, Ava4 and 5atar.

A lot of people here are assuming she’ll get kicked off the cheerleading squad, but that’s not gonna happen. It’s the Bay Area and the team had Kaepernick’s back when he took a knee. It may be the NFL, but not all franchises, owners, fan bases, etc. are equally terrible.

My Finnish surname has double L’s and ends with -ää, so at least you’re not butchering Jesperi’s name like those who’ve pronounced mine as if it’s Spanish or Hawaiian.

I just found it streaming on some website called SolarMovie, but the show doesn’t have any official U.S. distribution.

My nephew chose to be a banana for Halloween. If he showed up at your house and you didn’t find a handsome, smiley, two-year-old banana delightful, that ain’t his problem.

Yeah, but maybe he’ll turn down that fourth-year option because he’ll only be due - let me check - hahahahaha!

Yeah, last season couldn’t have gone more perfectly for the Rockets until Chris Paul got hurt. I’m not sure the Rockets front office fully acknowledged as much heading into this season. I can’t blame them for banking on getting the same from last season’s standouts, though.

For me it’s as simple as this: don’t walk up to a stranger, invade their space and command them to do something. It doesn’t matter if the person is famous or an entertainer, just don’t do it.

Huh. I was pretty certain it’d be short for Crewchebag. Time will tell...

I love J.J. Redick, but I don’t think the Sixers planned on having him shoot almost 16 shots per game this season. Simmons is taking as many shots as Covington, Saric and Fultz, which isn’t a good thing.

It takes me ~30 minutes just to fill the bath (with me in it) because that’s my favorite part, slowly letting the tub fill while I relax to the sounds of running water. The bathtub is also my favorite place to read.

My head is larger than average and I’ve never found it difficult to get into a t-shirt even after my hair is spiffied for the day. Some sweatshirts present more difficulty there.

You’re right about Berkeley not being a big city on its own, but it literally borders Oakland and is all of eight miles from SF, which you can see without squinting. The Bay Bridge toll plaza may be slow, but eight miles to SF and zero miles to Oakland makes Berkeley pretty damn metropolitan.

The only time I’ve ever left the stall door open (or seen others do it without thinking it’s weird) is at a ballgame when there’s a line of people waiting to piss. When I saw a guy leave the stall door open at work while pissing last week I just thought, “What the hell is he doing?”