Counterpoint: Malort is delightful

HA! Glorious

This aspect of US sports really confuses me. America is so focused on ‘winning’ that draws are abhorred yet “running up the score” or “watching your home run” are considered anathema. Shit or get out of the pool.

Well done, sir. And if there's any consolation in Mudville for this Cubs fan tonight, its got to be hopefully never seeing Daniel Murphy again.

And whoulda thunk that a guy named Chad Ludington would be somewhat on the side of the angels in this one?

It can’t just be ‘Chad Ludington’ though. I’d bet my bottom Euro it’s ‘Chad Ludington III’

PRODUCER: Quick guys, we need a name for Generic Frat Boy Asshole #3 in this teen college gross-out comedy

In Glasgow that’s what’s known as “enquiring after someone’s health and wishing them the best of luck while getting it stitched”

Of course he had a drinking buddy called “Chad Ludington”. Of course he did.

Soundtrack to that closed-door meeting

Is it terrible that I want Mike Schur to quit writing TV shows and go back to fisking awful baseball journalism? Man, I miss FJM.

Foucault would have a field day with this bullshit if he were alive. ‘Discipline & Punish’ covers all these bases.

If we posit that there are infinite Earths across dimensions and therefore everything that CAN happen DOES happen.... then out there somewhere in the multiverse I’m married to Julie Chu. This makes me smile.

The death penalty is an obscenity that any country that wants to call itself ‘civilised’ should have abolished many years ago. That’s it. There are no credible counter-arguments.

Fuck right off

Part of the problem is with the massive corruption endemic in African governments/police/military/rangers. Underpaid and under-resourced ranger units are being asked to deal with heavily-armed and violent poachers supplying an enormous global market. Several former-colonist nations like Britain and France have lent…

Story related by an old British Army friend of mine about the time he looked after African elephants . In the 90s his unit got re-deployed on their way back from the Balkans to an East African country (I’m being deliberately vague) that had started a crackdown on elephant poaching that had got very violent. His unit…

Coming from a country (Ireland) that has been inhabited by humans for at the very least 10,000 years, I love seeing this sort of thing crop up. Our unusally long, dry summer has seen long-hidden structures become visible to aerial photography and has given Irish archaelogy enough material to keep them busy for…

I may be wrong as I’m not fully knowledgable with US law, but wouldn’t a felony conviction prohibit him from even tendering for Govt. contracts? Stepping down as CEO seems inevitable.

Ah, yes. Them. I know exactly the type you’re talking about.