If you actually read Kipling, he had an affection and respect for the cultures of India that was remarkable for a man of his time. This is Mabbub Ali, an Afghan horse trader (and a Muslim), speaking to Kim, an Irish orphan. This is the most moving expression of fraternal love I have ever read.

It’s trendy to bash Kipling these days. As you know, he had great affection and respect for the various cultures of India. This is Mabbub Ali, an Afghan horse trader (and a Muslim), speaking to Kim, and Irish orphan. If there is a more moving expression of fraternal love in English literature, I am not aware of it:

As far as I know, this is the first case of a sportswriter not predicting something which had never happened before. Inexcusable.

I was all caught up in the Cinderella story. Now I want the Caps/Lightning winner to sweep them. Sports fans suck.

Having read these letters, all I can say is thank God for that. Sports fans suck.

I dunno, man. Mathematically speaking, they are infinitely better than they were last year.

Are you too young to have suffered through the Bad Boys and Riley’s rugby teams with the Knicks? As painful as a Harden iso is, it’s got nothing on a Shaq iso: bulldoze the defender, dunk, miss your free throws, complain to the refs.

“I fail to see the problem.”

Oh how I wish one of his Suns teams had won a title. It was so fun to watch an actual point guard running this offense.

A 41-point loss is an off night? That’s kind of you.

Lost in all this is the fact that Curry, while perhaps not a great defender, at least tries, which is certainly more than you can say for his counterpart. Curry will make Harden work for his points. Harden is not a poor defender. He chooses to not play defense, which is far, far worse. You can win in the regular…

Yeah, the sports media hive mind has been parroting that narrative all season, and it’s nonsense. They’ve got two superstars, and can shoot a ton of threes! Unlike the Warriors, who have two better superstars and shoot threes better. Because of this nonsense, James Harden was given the MVP before the season even…

“I think it’s funny.”
— my 8 y.o. nephew

Since we’re all in agreement, I would prefer that we move on, and stop reading and writing about Rudy. Save me from my need to read the “Rudy train wreck” post du jour so I can do something productive.

He’s busy trying to send a text message on a pocket calculator.

Remember when “the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity’s sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government”. This book was actually a big deal when I was a cub reporter in Washington in the 1990s. Amazingly, Fukuyama is still getting paid to thinkify.

Lost in this discussion about party lines is the fact that most of the US Senate is ok with torture.

We laugh at the crazy old man, but Brooks is on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He is part of the legislative body which makes decisions on, um, falling rocks.

But... but... if he does that, then he can’t feel superior to the rest of us suckers. What’s the point of watching a movie if you can’t condescend to readers?

I don’t know. The Monkees/Beatles discussion was pretty deep.