Blame TV.

Does he owe the Russian Mafia money?

I manage to go with the worst of all worlds when I eat tacos and hold it at one end, thus ensuring that half of the taco grease will end up in my palm as I eat.

Stoudemire’s only 33? Damn, I would’ve guessed he’s a lot closer to 40. Must be those old-man goggles he wears.

I was listening to some of the local sports yakkers talk about a Butler-to-Celtics deal and had the same thought: how do Butler and Thomas co-exist in the 4th quarter?

I can’t visualize a world in which the majority of what are currently-employable skills are performed by robots/AI and in which the VAST majority of wealth (not income) isn’t concentrated in either a very few hands or in the government. Don’t know if that will necessarily be better or worse than things are now.

I come down squarely on the “Santa wraps his gifts” side. Half of what I remember from Christmas mornings as a kid is wondering what was under the tree with my name on it.

Yeah, but when you buy cut-rate TP like Drew does (that is just not the place to save money!), 2 squares ain’t gonna cut it. You think you can get away with two folded-over squares at a public toilet? Not a chance in hell.

If the D-League players aren’t part of the NBAPA (and god help them if they are, because the dues would probably really cut into their take-home), I don’t see why the latest CBA would have dealt with the D-League in any meaningful sense. Are the owners going to throw something in there just because they’re nice?

Hey, Crabman!

I am so glad I passed up on the chance to buy one of those things when I was saving up to buy my current residence.

Well, they’ve got a game against the Bulls coming up, so that oughta right things in a hurry. Or at least it’ll paper over the team’s problems for another night.

Boy did I misunderstand how many of your relatives were in the UAW at my first glance through your comment.

That’s what kills me about these “sugary-beverage control” ordinances you guys in the NE have going on right now: frappucinos and whatever other sugar bombs Starbucks sells are totally exempt.

I’m wondering why they can’t make those intersection bumps sturdier. Chicago uses a bunch of plastic-like inserts, and they wear down really quickly.

Chances are (and this is a mostly-uninformed assumption) any insurance policy the owner could have gotten on the R8 would have been a commercial policy as a result of its intended use as a rental vehicle. I can’t see Allstate or whoever offering the owner a standard policy knowing that some unrelated jamoke will…

And somehow they managed to make it worse just before the Super Bowl.

I still use Yahoo on occasion for movie times and other movie-related ephemera when I’m bored, and their sports blogs are generally worth reading, but I can’t remember the last time I used it for a real search.

Look, emailer of the week, there’s no reason to verbally acknowledge someone 100 feet away from you unless you’re debating whether to have cracked crab or lobster for lunch after committing massive securities fraud. Just go about your business until they’re within normal conversational distance and then acknowledge…

They’re just screwed.