Well, many other athletes are just as competitive but manage to keep their composure when they lose, so it’s hardly unrealistic to expect Newton or Beckham to do the same.

Blows how mind how anyone who has been retired 15 years in professional sports couldn’t hang with “The modern athletes” according to some.

Short shifts means you have to worry less about stamina

It can be a little bit of Column A and a little bit of Column B, though. If Gretzky’s career had started 10 years later, would he still be the best ever and own all the scoring records? Sure. Would he have ever hung 200+ on the rest of the League? Probably not. Most of those HOF goalies you mention weren’t playing…

Fuck Jagr.

Draisatl is also barely treading water in possession, and the Oil have given up more goals at even strength with him on the ice than they’ve scored. McDavid is pretty much single-handedly dragging that team to the playoffs, courtesy a garbage division.

Is it that three first overall draft picks aren’t quite enough to get good, but four are, or is it that the fourth was Connor McDavid? I have my suspicions.

Because clearly, the best way to drain the swamp is to make its inhabitants even more dependent on federal largesse for their livelihoods.

Bingo bango.

If you want better Christmas songs, people need to fucking write them. Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You is the last original Christmas song to get any traction, and that shit is 22 years old.

And I’m saying that the administration’s MO has been to feed pliant press outlets a series of half-truths and outright bullshit every time an uncomfortable story emerges, that those same press outlets then uncritically parrot to their readers. One need look no further back than the torturous progression of Clinton’s…

This willing of the press to get less than the story rather than the whole story is not new, but I haven’t seen this many high profile agencies willing to accept this arrangement.

Holding journalists to a higher standard is fine; describing their job as approaching that standard, or faulting Trump as some kind of buffoon for taking them as they are, strikes me as giving them far too much credit. 

More precisely, each branch of the Government is supposed to check the other, but partisan cheerleading by “journalists” has degraded that norm to a point where civil society needs to pick up the slack.

what the actual job of real journalists is (enforcing checks and balances, reporting facts, investigating, providing transparency).

Considering Glenn Thrush just got a promotion to the NYT after being outed as a partisan flak (which shouldn’t have even been necessary considering his transparent bias), I’m not optimistic about the institutional press’s ability to reform itself.

I always felt that certain technical limitations to effects and choreography in the Original Trilogy hampered Lucas’ ability to show Vader at his most wantonly brutal. It started to develop in the Duel on Mustafar in RotS (seriously, pay attention to the fight choreography after they step back outside—it’s probably…

donor-minded adults trying to rein in the organized musical id of too-smart-for-their-own-good college students. 

The dynamics of a Bernie-Trump campaign would have been quite different from those of the campaign we got, because Bernie’s message was much more well-tailored to the disaffected white working class types who swung the election for Trump. Given how much I was wrong about this year, I’m not confident in saying who…

Eichenwald is a delusional hack with a very questionable past, but I have little doubt the RNC would have burned Sanders to the ground without even trying.