Well, only one of those teams has been relegated in recent memory, but of course Juventus is still a historical powerhouse.

Nice to see both survivors of Group H rewarded with easy draws.

There’s too much variety everywhere to make this workable. At first, this can seem like an urban / rural divide. Sioux Falls is a relatively liberal enclave within the Republican dominated South Dakota. What does Minnesota look like without the Twin Cities? Illinois is Indiana and Missouri except for Chicago. In New…

All of them, Katie.

These are the kind of up to the minute takes that make me turn to a George Carlin special from 1992 Splinter.

If you’re using a non-western style toilet, then the whole stand and pee before you squat thing makes a lot more sense.

(Spoilers?) They could always sort of pick up where the British series ended for the final season. That’d present some solutions.

Now if only MLS would adopt relegation, we could see that kind of top tier play here in the US.

So, Spurs are doomed because they are really good but also Spurs. Arsenal aren’t doomed because they are not as good as Spurs but are Arsenal.
Got it.

Interestingly, yes, not all real estate professionals engaged in the racist practices that helped embed residential segregation. Realtors? Yep. But, decidedly not everyone. The NAREB actually formed to fight against racist segregation.

Yeah, New Mexico has great food. While every major metropolitan area has some good Mexican(-style) places, I think it’s fair to say New Mexico offers the best, especially per capita. BUT other states, particularly Texas and California, have great Mexican too and keep in mind that Mexican isn’t monolithic. Does New…

I’m from South Dakota and two things really surprised me about Thune’s comments: First, he criticized people at a country music concert. Second, he didn’t suggest they should have had their own guns to fire back.

Yep. It’s no coincidence that the greatest expansions of the social safety net in the United States found ways to leave Black and brown people out (like not encompassing agricultural labor) and came during eras of the most blatantly racist immigration restrictions.

A local public radio station just covered this here in LA (Take 2 with A. Martinez) and they had on an apologist who did give a couple interesting insights.

I think we do at least know the Night King’s position on climate change.

Complete with an allusion to how the 3-1 ‘loss’ shows that Arsenal are better than Spurs, I hope.

When she was about two-and-a-half, my daughter slapped me in the face--I was holding her walking around the kitchen—and screamed “Bacon!” at me.

A few months later, she said “Yay! Daddy made bacon!” although I had not in fact made bacon. She continued saying “Thank you for the bacon, Daddy.” Within two minutes, I…

[In addition to Soylent Green’s reply]

Is “so you don’t die before you can go out and get* stuff” a good enough reason? Maybe the storm hits. Maybe it’s really bad. Maybe you can’t leave your place to get* what you need after it hits.

How about “If you can afford to buy before the storm, then you remove your need to…

Forget the store owner, imagine you’re the person who wrote the insurance policy for that store. Man. Can you even comprehend how thankful you’d be for Llamas calling the cops?
The insurance companies are going to be the true victims of this so called disaster and I’m just glad there are fine, upstanding citizens like…

Yes and yes.

I didn’t really care when Ed Sheeran showed up in a group of Lannister soldiers to sing a little song (and allow a little bit of character work for Arya), BUT now, looking back, those five minutes could have been used to do away with so much potential aggravation.