His shtick gets on my nerves, too, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call him overrated. A couple of seasons ago when Paul was out with an injury, he was a legit MVP candidate, showing great ball-handling skill, and his shooting has improved tremendously — so much so, in fact, that I think he fell in love with being able…

Fair point.

Yeah, Chris Paul gets too much hate, as if the only measure of a great basketball player is his ability to drag a team to the finals by himself (which is particularly absurd in the case of a pass-first point guard). The real mistake is in the assumption that the Clippers have three superstars; DJ just isn’t a…

One thing I noticed this year (and that you pointed out in an earlier column, I believe) is that Griffin just doesn’t dunk anymore. It’s like he took so much shit for “only [being] a dunker” that he decided he would never dunk again. I remember that short-lived weird comedy program with Griffin and Paul in which…

I have spent more time than I’d like to admit collecting editions in various media formats of non-Ozzy/Dio Black Sabbath albums. Why? I’m not even sure anymore. It’s just something I do, when I stumble across one — add it to the pile. I’m sure there’s a similar eBay auction in my future.

Yeah, honestly, as thoroughly against everything coming out of this terrible administration as I am, losing the Correspondents’ Dinner didn’t exactly make me shed a tear.

High political IQ and a good motor. Like a general’s son out there.

It absolutely is, compare it to his actual mouth in the picture if you can stand the horror.

Yeah the 90s were garbage style-wise, but the hard and fast rule is that after twenty years we all need to relive our youths through the new youths, regardless of whether or not anything was worthwhile. I for one would like to remember a bunch of good music and some brighter aspects of the Clinton presidency and leave…

It was originally done so the factory workers could have their entire lunch in one handy go so they could race back to work rather than taking the extra time to sit and enjoy their damn meal. It’s essentially a monument to the “your breaks are a waste of the company’s TIME” mindset. American as apple pie.

I once read an interview with Gavin MacInnes in which he said “‘socially liberal and fiscally conservative’ is just another way of saying ‘punk,’” which struck me as just about the saddest kind of “aging punk clinging desperately to anti-establishment cred” statement. Then he shook his decaying fist at younger people…

I make it a part of every conversation I have with out of state relatives and friends. “No, no, you don’t want to come here... er, I’d leave, but I can’t *afford* to, that’s it...”

I hate Eric Garcetti. I hate him so much, and yet in the last election, there was no viable alternative. I voted for a joke candidate. I am not proud. But good god. This fuckin’ guy. I’d vote for Jerry Brown’s rotting corpse before voting to put him in the Governor’s Mansion.

Yeah, exactly. I read this, nodded at the mother’s post, then got confused when all of a sudden the writer was telling me that I was wrong to agree. Seems like a bunch of randos demanded Carson’s toys, and he didn’t want to play with them. That’s not “a failure to socialize,” that’s protecting your boundaries, like…

Well, he did specifically say “See you in the Supreme Court” this time, rather than fall back on the hilarious “see you in COURT!” like that other time one of his EOs was halted in a court, so maybe he’s capable of some basic reptilian learning, at the very least.

Same. It is the one thing that crosses all boundaries, races, colors, and creeds. I love her for it.

The book Days of Fire is a really good look at the Bush presidency, and covers a lot of this ground.

Oh, absolutely. I know he’s correct in the other details, but I just thought that particular moment was amusing, as he was using that argument against literally the one team where it doesn’t fly.