I know this plays into all the existing off the shelf narratives about Beckham being a whiny cry baby (which he is unfortunately), but the officiating in that game truly was abysmal. He actually has a point here.

Um. Its both of them. He shuffles his feet like whoa, and double dribbles. It doesn’t defy the laws of theoretical physics that both happened on the same play.

Its both. Switches his pivot feet / shuffles his feet, which is tantamount to taking a bunch of steps, and then he dribbles again after already having picked up his dribble. Both should be automatic turnovers.

you’ve cut to the heart of the matter here

Right nobody is saying these are “all encompassing solutions”, but if someone whose comparative advantage is in engineering engineers something that’s helpful, why is that a bad thing? That doesn’t stop politicians from doing their thing too.

You’re assuming that these things are somehow mutually exclusive. but of course they’re not. that’s innane.

HamNo’s argument is completely inane. It assumes that trying to fix the politics of poverty and the technology of poverty are somehow mutually exclusive. They’re not! Obama is in the last months of his presidency, with a Republican congress. He can’t change the politics of poverty in those few months he’s got left.…

To be fair to Chuck Pagano, humans as a species are pretty bad at understanding cause and effect. That correlation =/= causation is one of the trickiest conceptual things to get your head around. Our minds are *incredible* at confidently inferring causation that doesn’t exist from correlations we observe. We’re…

I think the media (a) doesn’t know how to handle the sheer volume of Crazy being unleashed; (b) has significant institutional survival / profit incentives to try really hard to act like nothing that unusual is happening

Except that he promised to visit Pakistan. Which actually is an important diplomatic act. Obama refused to visit Pakistan to show his discontent with the inability of their leaders to control the Taliban and their continued aggressive acts towards india. Did he consciously mean to reverse long-standing US foreign…

So... what does he say to people he actually likes?

Yes. Agree completely. And these things all feed into each other. If your passing game is all quick 2 second throws within 5 yards from the los, the defense can crowd the box without any consequences. If defenses are crowding the box, you can’t run. If you can’t run, you can’t create openings for WRs down the field,…

Watching the Packers last night was such a weird experience. We apparently are running the same basic offense as McCarthy. But oh boy did that look like something *completely* different. So much more variety, innovation, rhythm, pacing, consistency. Everything was happening faster. Getting a 5 yard completion was…

Now if only their offense wasn’t playing like complete butt.

Why wasn’t the dog freaking out though? My dog has seen bears when hiking and he freaks the fuck out barking. That dog was chill like the bear was just another human. Maybe he thought the polar bear was a person?

Are we really sure James Dolan can play the guitar? Have you seen the youtube videos of JD and the Straight Shot? He’s uh...... really fucking bad at music. Not clear he made a deal with anybody. He’s just a doofus.

You could stop reading the website.

Right. And if its just a syncing thing, the only way these emails are different at all from the emails on her other devices she already handed over is if she had a secret plan of “conduct all nefarious scandal related business on my husband’s laptop!”

If only this were true. The problem is that the proverbial carrot doesn’t really exist any more. Its not that Obama was bad at building relationships compared to say, LBJ, as much as it is that decades of (well-intentioned) ethics reforms means that LBJ’s carrots don’t (legally) exist any more.

That is *literally* the only reason they posted this.