No, but I admire his form when he claps; certainly an example to aspire to.

A QB who doesn't protect his fingers would be a complete idiot.

I play guitar for fun, and it's important to me. I've got one permanently busted pinkie and a few months ago I badly jammed another finger on my fretting hand while playing with my dog.

And here I was, keeping MMA at merely an arm's length from my attention. I'll need to push that out a little farther; thanks for the heads up.

God I hate your stupid fucking numbered paragraphs. You write fine, but it's like you're wearing a neon LOOK AT ME sign across your neck.

That is one of the most amazing photographs I've ever seen. Transformed this waste of time into something else entirely.

Yeah, I was going to push my point and then I saw that other dude going off, and I had to check myself. Self checking isn't such a bad exercise. Enjoy the game.

Are you really offended, or are you only offended because you think somebody might theoretically be offended?

Hard to tell, and there's really no safe speed. You can creep along at a speed that would make a collision survivable, and then somebody rear-ends you. I don't know, we've all driven in conditions that we wish we weren't driving in. You grit your teeth and hope.

Who I can't imagine needing to lose weight. 1800 is a magic number for a lot of people to lose; charts be damned, just count actual calories going into your body, and not what you imagine it is.

I don't know about muscle tone and weight—I'm separating my thing into three phases. Weight loss first, easy (my experience) to do without needing exercise. Having lost the weight and maintained it at my target for a quite a while, that makes muscle building easier—you can see the results. I'm currently into that…

I went from 227 to my current 170-neighborhood, and my wife went from 175 to 150, on 1800 calories a day. A 300-calorie smoothie in the morning, 300-400 calories of nuts for lunch, a 100-calorie V-8 juice to sustain you through the day. That right there leaves a 1000-calorie dinner, IF you didn't put milk in your…

I don't have a lot of dog in this fight, don't really agree or disagree. But. Without any sarcasm or snark, I respect your balls to come in here and add productively to the conversation, as you definitely did, with a "that dead guy acted too black" angle. Consider your brass balls respected.

Disagree on Jemelle Hill and Michael Smith. They are a generation later, and if you detect in their work the kind of grandstanding and posing that you're discussing, I'm not sure where you're getting that. They are natural and unforced, sort of obviously.

Well done; appreciated.

Instead, it's like you have a thoroughly unique body that works differently from anyone else's. Do you know how many calories are in the cooking oil you cook with?

I don't believe you. If you were really eating 1800 calories a day, you'd lose weight. I lost 50 lbs doing exactly that.

Calorie reduction is healthful, period. Though I don't think it's been demonstrated in humans, it's been shown in a wide range of mammals that reducing calories makes them healthier in many measurables—better fur, more vigor, etc. Of course, the same is true for exercise, that its benefits go far beyond weight loss,…

Yep. And as implied in a comment out in the black, you take offensive possessions off so that whatever you've got left you can use on the defensive end, if they can't get you out. Hands on the knees like that, he's basically just asking to come out without being explicit about it.

How about sports commentators who quote advanced statistics without any understanding or discussion, the way all sports commentators who quote them do: