Not POWs, thank God, but nice try.

The last sentence is the most relevant in my opinion. Is there a reason we pretend that the simplest explanation isn’t that they were performing reconnaissance? It’s not naughty. Countries spy on as many countries as they can afford to. The US has spies in strong allies like the UK or Israel.

There’s no way in hell those apply when an adversary’s ship ends up in sovereign waters, within 12 miles of a military installation, no less. If this happened 12 miles from Camp Pendleton, there’d be dead Iranian washing up on the beach for a month. This went as perfectly as possible for both parties.

Yep. And that hospital is fully electronic. He couldn’t slip someone ringers without a trail a mile long.

My mistake! I was never at this one. The rest still stands.

Oh, and I did some googling. Andy Jagoda is the chair of EM at Sinai. David Newman can’t be his supervisor, and it seems kind of unlikely they’d schedule a department chair and a celebrity physician to work a Monday night shift together. Is there independent confirmation they were even both there?

Hell, a physician walking into an exam room administering medicine himself/herself, short of a code or intra-procedure meds, would grab everyone’s attention. When’s the last time you saw that?

In emergency? Sure. And there are hospitals that have cameras pointed in ICU rooms 24/7 for remote monitoring, most with microphones, and many with joysticks to pan and zoom. It’s becoming pretty standard.

Yeah, that’s the other thing. Nobody goes straight to that, especially with a nighttime walk-in patient c/o “shoulder pain.” That gets an eyeroll and ibuprofen, at least until images come back.

I’ve been in that ED. It seems hard to believe logistically, especially at night, when things get hopping. Cameras everywhere as well.

Nah, I had my wisdom teeth pulled with laughing gas just 2-3 years ago. As long as you don’t mind cracking noises, it’s the way to go. Medical stuff doesn’t bother me, so it was a no-brainer for me. Honestly, it was kind of fun, I just sat there high listening to 90s indie rock (I have a pretty chill dentist...) while…

Not make everyone wonder where the driver forgot his Confederate flag?

To be fair, Doug’s job is essentially to own those vehicles and make occasional videos and blog posts about them.

If it were coming out of the Red Cross’ budget or something, sure. But this is amoral capitalism at work. Who is this a nuisance to?

Some players skip a draft for that exact reason, especially if they’re projected to be drafted late. And there’s a reason that, as soon as the draft is over, no player ever engages in anything like it again. It’s an incredibly weird, unfair say of hiring people.

Nooooope. In negotiations, all parties are able to use leverage - it’s what negotiations are. If an owner can say “take this massive restructuring, or we’ll cut you,” it’s more than reasonable for a player in their prime to say “I know what I’m worth to you, even if I might not get a matching deal on the open market,…

It’s a list of the shit I skip in favor of better (and sometimes cheaper) alternatives, other than Maker’s. It’s also a list of what a doctor’s son orders on his 21st birthday. Good job, billionaires! You finally made it.

I mean, I know what I’m doing, but I have roadside assistance that includes one tire change per year. I thought AAA did that too. Why the hell wouldn’t I use it? “Thanks for the free drink, flight attendant, but no. I brought my own mixers.”

...why would my wife be yelling at me about a blown tire?

I’m not an SUV guy anyway, but that Infiniti is my least favorite design of any vehicle currently being produced.