I think my favorite part was when he was trying to make the “classy” and “not flashy” argument about Mike Conley against the *Spurs* of all teams.

Alas, I’m in Los Angeles, and he’s in Austin, where he describes himself as “a strawberry surrounded by blueberries in a further sea of strawberries.” My father is a... strange man. Oddly brilliant in surprising ways and dense as fuck in others, and they don’t always match up the way you think they will.

Hey, pal, an internship isn’t a job, it’s an Educational Experience! *posts ad at university career center job board* *fires office cleaning crew*

If they’re anything like my father, a loyal listener who has twice ended up in the hospital for taking “supplements” from Jones advertisers instead of his actual medication, it will be the last one.

Hey, the man is practically “Taft”-like... in that he’s also a fat guy who didn’t *really* want to be president. Give him a few more years, maybe Ivanka will appoint him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court!

I remember Shane Battier making an ominous comment upon his retirement:

That 0-4 regular season record against the Bulls looks scary until you look at LeBron teams vs the Bulls in the regular season and then LeBron teams vs the Bulls in the playoffs and realize it doesn’t actually matter.

Ironic, given all the Ayn Rand humping currently coming out of the GOP.

Good article, but yeah, after that line it was all I could do to stop myself from heading down to the comments and heaping praise immediately.

I agree with you, but this just ends up turning into the inevitable debate about what “valuable” means: the player without whom his team collapses and withers, or the “best player on the best/one of the great teams.” Barring something remarkable happening, it often goes to the latter (Nash in 2006 over Kobe, for…

Neither is this one. You can see the Donald’s features crawling around behind those cheekbones.

You mean the same Albert Burneko who didn’t once hold himself up as an authority on drafting quarterbacks and instead pointed out that “great quarterbacks with award-laden careers are a good thing to have” is maybe not particularly complex or illuminating thinking?

Same about Mariah: “The Roof”... that song and video were a big part of my adolescent... awakening, let’s say.

Counterpoint: Night showering is fine. I do it all the time, and have caught plenty of next-day whiffs without any offending odor. Your smell is coming from something else, pal.

Yeah, and they’re coming to Los Angeles, too, and they get all pissy that LA isn’t a “real” city, so they’re pushing for development that involves building glass-and-steel high rises along the various faultlines that criss-cross Hollywood, which is a great idea, lemme tell you.

You mean history’s most underwhelming Dracula (er...excuse me: “Drake”)? I remember reading a review of that that compared him to “the big dude Schwarzenegger has to fight before he gets to the *real* villain.”

+1 for any and all Exorcist III references, always

Everyone wants to believe otherwise just to keep things interesting, but yeah: Cavs are coming out of the East. No other team in that conference is going to beat them 4 times in the playoffs.

lol