Long time City fan, and had grown weary of Jesus well before the WC began.  He seems to be one of those where the potential never translates into production.

I prefer to think it’s the kind of play that Belgium could have executed early and often, but just didn’t. I wonder if they took Japan lightly coming in and had to have that 0-2 fire lit under them to actually perform.  DeBruyne was largely invisible until that last run (and sublime pass). Lukaku is more overrated by…

Hot take:  Lukaku = upmarket Altidore.

City fan, can confirm. Never ceases to amaze me that these guys who are paid millions and millions of dollars can miss an open net from six yards.

Meanwhile Trump is tweeting about journalists being the “enemy of the people,” which projects nothing else like 1930s fascism — or 2010s Russian Federation.

I have a ton of Ryobi stuff — wore out the original little 5" circular saw, have nearly worn out the sawsall, just bought a hammer drill, even have a lawn edger — but for any serious work I’d want a corded worm or hypoid drive over a sidewinder. I recently got a Makita Magnesium, and it’s like cutting butter.

I have a ton of Ryobi stuff — wore out the original little 5" circular saw, have nearly worn out the sawsall, just…

Was at the meet. It was even more interesting than just the Georgia/USC thing. Stanford had the meet won until just before the 4x4 started, as its discus thrower had been in comfortably in first place since the early rounds, and 10 points would put it out of reach even though it had no team in the relay. In the LAST…

The picture of Lyin’ Ted is a perfect illustration of your first point. Ted has never wanted to “overthrow” anything, for any point of principle. He wants to suck up to money in order to take over the “establishment,” thus gaining him access to more money. Everything else is window dressing.

How Stevens is not COTY is unfathomable. Loses two best players, likely will make the Finals. Guy voted COTY swept in second round by team that may get swept itself in conference finals, gets fired. It was not even close. I suspect that next year Boston could finish fourth in the east and Stevens will get the award as…

Totally. I needed some specialty flashing tape for a project, wanted to be sure the store stocked it before I made the drive to the nearest HD. Called and asked for lumber and building materials. Mind you, this is 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday — there should be virtually no customers in the store. Transferred to nowhere.…

The most interesting tidbit in the reporting is that Mueller’s team had asked both AT&T and Novartis about their payments, in November. Which means they already had the bank records last year. They also stopped Vekselberg at the airport late last year, which now clearly looks like a follow up to getting those records.…

Also:

Once inside the Pantheon, turn around and look just above the main doors. There is a small rectangular hole in the interior surface of the dome. Brunelleschi cut the hole to investigate its construction when he was planning the Duomo in Florence (which took over the title of largest dome in the world from the…

Add the IAAF to that list.

Admittedly, I am an old, so suspension of disbelief requires a little more foreplay for me, but, as I sat through it with my 15 year old son who cackled and though it was the greatest (because stupidest) thing ever, all I could think was: F-22 with stand-off weaponry firing a tactical nuke on a Stinger or something. A…

“My team is about to turn loose their three starter-quality quarterbacks”

I owned a 79 Ford Fairmont coupe. White, with a red vinyl interior. We named it the Elvis Car. Manual. It was the biggest piece of shit car in the history of the universe. Once, while I was driving it down an avenue in the city where I was then living and going to school, the rear differential essentially…

Ehhhh. If you squint a little, you can tell it’s really just an ‘82 IROC-Z.

The level of cynicism with the Rs in Congress is beyond depressing. They barely even pretend to hide what they’re doing anymore. The HPSCI voted unanimously yesterday to release the Ds’ rebuttal memo, but I’m convinced the Rs on the committee voted that way only because they think there’s at least an even shot that…

Just so we’re clear: The guy who attempted to create a scandal about US citizens under surveillance being “unmasked”....got to broadcast the name of a US citizen under surveillance.