They can.

Though I agree with you, a caveat on cutting military spending. I've been following politics for about 35 years now, and every single time people want to spend money on something they say, "cut the military budget," like the Military Budget Cutting Fairy will wave a magic wand. Public education stinks? Cut defense…

Are you aware that these particular union people make an average of $147K/year and have health care with no deductibles, copays, or premiums out of pocket?

The PMA video above says the average ILWU worker gets $147K/year. Healthcare is fully paid: no premiums, no deductibles, no copays.

Coincidentally, this is a milestone for me, too: the first Duke-UNC game I'm watching with the volume unmuted.

I don't know about the long term history of Chelsea, but I've followed them long enough to know that (a) three UEFA referees - Ovrebo, Hauge, and Frisk - all received death threats from Chelsea fans, and (b) nobody within Chelsea indicated that they had any interest in figuring out which fans did it, holding them…

I about 7 or 8 when it all happened. I don't remember it firsthand; I've only read about it.

How did Da Sweet Blood Of Kickstarter Funding do?

The house, and surrounding land, were on the market for $21M and he sold for $15M, taking a 29% reduction. That sounds like someone desperate for money.

I didn't see this as insulating Sanders. I thought it did a good job as balancing the sincere (he wasn't starting the school for money, he's not an absentee father) with the insincere (blaming everybody except himself) with the self-aggrandizing egomania (drawing dollar signs in the dirt, multiple "takes" on his…

When was the last miserable failure of a public school shut down and all its teachers and admins fired?

Yup. Hope this comment makes it out of the grays.

The Ilitches did, however, agree to a mayoral executive order that demanded 51 percent of construction jobs go to residents and 30 percent of construction contracts go to local businesses.

Because it was better than working the day shift at the graveyard and the graveyard shift at the Day's Inn.

With all of the Super Bowl stuff last week it has gone largely unnoticed that Deion Sanders's Prime Pimp Prep Academy was, finally, permanently shut down last Friday.

I can't decide what's better: the goal or the fact that Ray Hudson was not announcing.

Will Chelsea go for the win tomorrow against City? Or will they try to Mourinhize the game now that Costa is out?

What a great guy: chivalrous, funny, brilliant, banned by the SEC for life due to illegal stock market transactions...

Not that I'm disagreeing, but there must have been times when some people were more on drugs than others, right? Like those Greek sprinters in 2000 (Thanou and the guy whose name I can't remember), or the Chinese female runners in the 90s who trained with Ma Junren, or that Irish swimmer in the 90s.

I was about to defend JJK - I always thought she looked like an incredible physical specimen while FloJo looked like a goon (skull size, jaw line, braces on teeth, breadth of shoulders, etc). But when I looked it up, nobody has beaten JJK's heptathlon record since 1988.