(1) Relative to men, women are going to tend to have a weaker bench vs. their squats and deadlifts. Just look at a well-muscled person of each gender and it’s apparent that the difference in muscular potential in the upper body is bigger than in the lower body.

Maybe, though there’s a decent chance of one of those guys moving anyway (or it seemed like there was, with people knowing or thinking Ainge was looking to make another trade). I mean, you don’t want to get buried, and there are coaches that would bury you. But if you’re confident in your abilities, going to a team…

Didn’t get enough sleep last night apparently, re: Stevens/Stevenson.

I heard some folks speculating that maybe this is because Jackson, or people around him, preferred him to go to a team where he’s likely to get a lot of playing time right off the bat so he can get more publicity as a rookie, maybe contend for rookie of the year (though if that happens, everyone was REALLY wrong about…

Chicago fans know the Bulls are a garbage organization at the top. I feel like we’ve hit the point where the rest of NBA fans know this too.

2 minutes off a half marathon? I think Paul Ryan shaved like an hour off a marathon (there was some kerfuffle over whether he inflated his mountain climbing exploits, but I believe he was vindicated there).

Heisman Trophy winner and PJ Brown chewtoy Charlie Ward!

I watched this clip last night, but now I can’t remember if it was here or on a podcast yesterday that I heard the fact which blew my mind yesterday:

I think it was a great thing for Terry Crews that he got the chance to be in a super emotional, dramatic scene with Andre Fucking Braugher, and CREWS was the guy who had to do the heavy lifting, and he delivered.

I’ve acknowledged that I consider myself a partisan Democrat, but I’ve avoided actually saying “I won’t budge on this position or that position” because this conversation is happening on such abstract terms. So I’m curious what it is you think I’m so inflexible about. Is it that I happen to think you’re wrong? I’m…

Yeah, man, what ABOUT using the private sector to combat global warming? Why don’t you ask John McCain about it?

But politicians need to answer to, you know, voters. And the most opinionated and dependable voters don’t APPEAR to be the ones who favor the kind of tit for tat you suggest. The most passionate Republican voters, averaged out, don’t appear to be people who can stomach “abortion concessions”. I suspect there MAY be a…

I’m not sure the party that eagerly elevated Jeff Sessions to Attorney General is actually on board for the ideas you suggest would be an easy pass if it weren’t for people tacking on poison pill amendments.

The political parties in the middle of the 20th century were weakly aligned relative to the most pressing political issues of the day. By the last quarter of the century this had largely ceased to be the case, but because long-held political identities spread across millions of people don’t usually turn on a dime, it…

I agree with this to an extent. I assume Joe Manchin knows better than I do what it takes to get a Democrat elected in West Virginia, so I try not to get too annoyed with Joe Manchin.

You’re begging a question here: the supposition that most people actually share your collection of policy preferences. Or have your perspective on the issues. More to the point: most VOTERS, since they’re the people who matter here. I’m a voter; let’s say for the sake of argument that I’m the median Democratic voter…

What is your concept of a universe in which a politician of one political party votes 100% of the time with the issue preferences of the opposed political party?

But you haven’t identified bipartisan attitudes to the issues you name, you’ve identified what are currently partisan attitudes to the issues you name, it just so happens that the collection of issues don’t add up to the platform of a political party at the moment. Republican congresspeople aren’t going to spurn the…

If I’m Boston and Butler and Porzingis are both available for prices I can swallow, I go for Porzingis, because I have a slightly higher preference for “try to stay good, but try to crest a few years in the future” vs. “go all in right now”. If I’m the Cavs I’m not so sure. I’m more locked into “win now,” but…

Thanks for the clarification, I clearly clicked on the wrong results pdf on the IPF website. (Which, given that they’re the premiere organization, and they’re pursuing this quixotic attempt to get powerlifting into the Olympics, you’d think they’d do a better job of presenting their results?)