From your lips to god’s ears man. We might just have the talent for it, but we have to blow considerably fewer leads than last year.

A side note, but (as a profoundly casual fan) I thought until this moment that Dante Exum was a fictional character dreamt up by the makers of 2k15.

I did not think I would see a linguistics smackdown in Deadspin comments. Well done.

Right, fair enough. Products that don't actually do anything do, after all, tend to present fewer side effects :)

Oh, of course it could. Which is why we ought to discuss the safety of compounds based on their actual effects, rather than their “naturalness.”

I hate (sincerely) to be the person using Wikipedia as a source, but this is where I got it from

This is particularly funny because, even by the standards of the “chemicals are scary” crowd, there’s nothing terribly “artificial” about zinc oxide. Zinc is a mineral, it's mined out of the ground, either as metallic zinc or as a component of various ores. You heat it up until it vaporizes, and it reacts with oxygen…

He seems like a really good guy. Having him on the team has been great the past few years, and he’s also been really vocal about being an adult with ADD, and done a lot of outreach, which I’ve really appreciated as someone with it. Plus, I blew my savings on a ticket to ALCS game 6 in 2013, and seeing his grand slam…

The NYRB is normally fantastic, I’m really disappointed that they ran this.

Three of us posted that within two minutes of eachother. Great minds think alike apparently.

and someone else was one minute before me. Great minds think alike.

So he’s essentially basketball’s answer to Joe Morgan.

Early man didn’t have steak either (most of their non-vegetable protein intake was insects and rodents) but that doesn't stop them from touting that as health food.

I have a degree in political economy. Paul Krugman has a Nobel in economics. Joe Stiglitz has a Nobel, and a Bates Clark medal, and was chief economist of the world bank. And you know what we all have in common? We all think you’re wrong. Economics is, you might be shocked to find out, an actual field of academic…

They don’t call it the Daily Fail for nothing.

My thoughts exactly!

All the joke missing is truly spectacular.

Now, for an actual fantasy cast, I have only one request: Alexander Siddig as Jafar.

Oh man, Patricia Smith! She is the greatest, I was reading Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah on the train last night. The fact that I have (in the most technical of senses) opened for her fills me with pride.

A related question: is it actually feasible to refuse the field sobriety test, provided you say upfront you’ll take the breathalyzer? I’ve never drove on more than one drink, and would usually wait at least a few hours even then. However, I have neurological problems that screw with my balance and coordination, such…

It’s even better in reverse: