Understood. But still, the Panthers lost not only because of strong defenses, but also because of missed opportunities (not scoring touchdowns instead of field goals). The Falcons also proved last year that Carolina is beatable; the Broncos learned well from the Falcons’ win late in the regular season. In football,…

What I can imagine happening with the advent of autonomous trucks is that we move from truck driving (simply being able to drive a truck from one place to another) to the higher-skilled role of truck operator (a mechanic with some driving skills who is also tech-savvy and can address what is going on with a truck on…

The Raiders are becoming a better team and may compete for a playoff spot. The Bucs and Saints, on the other hand, are crap. But Carolina isn’t playing like NFC champions, so there may be another good win there, and Seattle is no longer an elite team. The problem will be Denver. The Broncos will decimate the Falcons…

Quarterbacks are paid too much money and are too valuable to be blocking. So Ryan did the smart thing.

Da-yummm! If not for the Volvo we just bought, I would be all over this Jeep right now.

In the Bring Your Own Device age, your personal phone is your work phone. Big problem. Back when I ran one organization’s communications department, I successfully lobbied for a corporate phone (the executive director was the only one who had one) because I didn’t want my personal social media mixing with work.…

Buyout is the answer.

Exactly. Pat Riley wants to win. But not at the expense of having a key player die Hank Gathers style on the court because he cares more about playing than about his health. The Heat made a smart and humane move in this case, something that my Knicks would have never done.

Pretty much. A luxury car customer doesn’t want his glory car to be in the same showroom as the car he sniffs at, and doesn’t want his top badge vehicle to be serviced alongside the lower-tier badges. This is true even for seccond-tier brands. The Mazda dealership near my home (part of a chain that sells other brands)…

Let me add this as well: The fear of Hillary Clinton winning office is greater among Republicans than their hatred of Trump. The thinking in their minds is that once Trump wins office, he will have no choice but to work with them. The problem with that thinking is that Trump has proven over and over again that he…

1. On policy matters, Cruz isn’t different in substance from Trump. Both support more-restrictive immigration laws and are not exactly supporters of civil rights. As a Republican nominee, Cruz would have been the sane-yet-Nixonian version of Trump.

And life is a series of almosts. We know that already.

Goodell’s dad was a U.S. Senator who lost his job to William F. Buckley Jr.’s brother (who was running as a third-party candidate). So incompetence runs in the family.

She’s feckless because black people didn’t vote her into office. White people did. So she feels no need to answer to “those people” save for asking them to be “peaceful” and not angry about being reminded once again that they have no agency or ownership in their own city.

I am. I also work with kids in schools as a volunteer. Believe me, children are more-capable of understanding the world around them than you give them credit.

Just because you “live in a smaller city with a highly integrated school and... no history of racial violence amongst the police” that you know of doesn’t mean that there aren’t cops engaged in racial violence and bigotry against black people in your community. If anything, because cops are good at hiding what they do…

Really? The guy throws a pie in Johnson’s face, then comes up to talk smack afterward. This guy was violating the first rule of good conduct in public life: Disagree without being disagreeable. He was not only disagreeable, but downright disrespectful to a fellow human being. You may dislike Johnson and disdain his…

Wrong. That shows we are human beings. Certainly it is nice to always think you will be in control of your emotions. But any given day at any given time, you can lose control. Stop being such a self-righteous prick.

Exactly. Throw pie in someone’s face (assault), expect beat down. This fool won’t throw another pie at anyone else.

Exactly. If they sue, they would be among the first to be paid if VW went into bankruptcy, after bondholders and preferred shareholders and before unsecured creditors.