I enjoy the GOT series on HBO immensely, but after tonight’s episode I’m really hoping that GRRM a) actually has the pages he claims to have, b) will publish those pages sometime soon, c) isn’t going to just crib from the show on major points.

Viserion the Wight blasting through the Wall was, for me, very…

Since Mayweather won, does that mean he faces The Bag next?

If Robert E. Lee had not fought against the Union for the right to own and sell human beings, would there be any statues of him?
If George Washington had not owned, sold, profited, and benefited from enslaved Blacks, would there be any statues of him?

It’s a false equivalence because the most notable thing about Lee’s…

For what it’s worth, Dean seems to have pulled out the actual statute language and persuaded you that knowing it was false is crucial to the lawsuit but that’s what I was referencing with discovery and private documents. Is there some malicious e-mail from ABC saying “We know that pink slime is perfectly safe. We’ve…

Well. You settle for lots of reasons. The continued PR problems that a drawn out trial and appeal likely would have been more damaging than whatever settlement ABC had to pay, if any. Plus, legal fees would only mount. Also, it was threatening to really throw off their employee schedules. Jim Avila would have had to…

Just out of curiosity, what’s your metric for “run a little better” in this case? Engineers would make journalists tell more or deeper truths? Engineers would hone lawyers’ arguments more precisely? Court dockets would be cleared faster if engineers sat in judgment or organized case loads?

And engineers are those experts? I don’t get your objection. Reporters and other journalists talk to people who are experts and then condense that information down for easy consumption (yes yes critiques of capitalism and entertainment are totally valid but that doesn’t mean we get rid of journalists). Experts are…

Nope. It should take a trial, which the two parties agreed to avoid. The article to which you’re responding suggested that ABC likely would have WON if not in South Dakota then almost certainly on appeal. I’m going to assume that you haven’t been privy to all the discovery evidence of the case and that you don’t have…

Man, thank goodness engineers obsessed with efficiency aren’t in charge of journalism or law.

Where are these “extreme rural confines” that you’re discussing? I grew up in South Dakota, in a town with fewer than 800 people. The next town over had 12 people (and a grain elevator), ten miles the other way and you had 43 people. I consider that pretty “extreme rural” and what you’re implying just doesn’t happen…

But what if my house has plumbing issues because Al Davis moved in (temporarily it turns out) and forced the neighborhood to build a really huge upper deck that nobody ever uses when they come to see me but still drains my maintenance budget?

This has to make Beane a frontrunner for Minor League Executive of the Year, right?

Maybe if you’d called it “One Weird Trick For Understanding The Hypocrisy Of Today’s Bigotted Transgender Announcement” then the commenters would have better understood its place on Lifehacker. It’s about ethics in lifehacking journalism after all.

Come on Hamilton, you’re better than this (or maybe you’re not). You can indict the Democratic Party apparatus without mentioning HRC. She’s not the candidate. She’s not the leader of the party. The election is over. She lost. We lost. [Would we have won if she won is a meaningless question open for meaningless debate]

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Any hint as to whom Spurs will target with that 110 million?

Also, thanks for an excellent article that almost totally avoided mentioning Arsenal. Please share your secrets for writing about Tottenham as writing about Tottenham with the rest of the staff.

I think fan apathy is tied to the feeling that we’re cheering for laundry and that any player we love is likely to get shipped to the Cubs or Yankees or Red Sox or some other team with ownership willing to spend. If Fisher put money into the team to keep the players around, then I think we’d see a lot more fans…

When has he last consistently been in the playoffs? 2012-2014.

I think you’re right that Beane prefers the lower profile job in Oakland, but he’s not a fraud. In the last six years, the A’s have made the playoffs three times and the Yankees have made the playoffs three times. Is he the best GM? No. Maybe. He does a lot…

Is there a good governor in the United States? Particularly, is there a good Republican governor? Daugaard in South Dakota doesn’t seem to do too much to actively damage the state, even as he doesn’t stand against the legislature’s bigotry and political opportunism.

And before anyone trots out Jerry Brown as an…

You’re saying that you think Jeffrey Loria is not a necromancer? That is a hot take.

What other athletes generally have access to their wallets during competitions? Is this something unique to tennis? I don’t recall any baseball players offering to pay off umpires, at least in MLB.