Did you seriously just compare the Taylor “73 points-per-82 games” Hall to David “Couldn’t have ever hit 73 points if it it the word painted on a barn” Booth?

“Build, build, build” isn’t calling for the marginal increases in housing stock typified by your example, though—it’s calling for drastic loosening or regulations and permitting processes that would allow for significant increases in housing stock.

Affordable housing means government plentiful housing.

You don’t need more laws to prevent people from buying up scarce housing; you need less laws to stop preventing people who want to build the housing that would no longer be scarce. It’s really not rocket science.

My brother told me I was an asshole, but I maintain that — if you can’t reject the wine — why do they offer to let you taste it in the first place?

A Russian would suffice for these purposes. I’m thinking Kuznetsov against the Leafs, but that would require the Caps to make the third round, so . . .

There’s a pretty significant difference between advanced technology existing in the MCU—which it inarguably does—and advanced technology existing in common use—which it observably does not.

They have a plan, but part of it involve trading away Taylor Hall and using that cap space on Milan Lucic, so, y’know, it’s a terrible plan.

The difference between giving three films to three directors without any guidance on how they should cohere versus three films to one director with his own general sense of the world he wants to build is like the difference between . . . well, how well the original trilogy fit together versus TLJ basically abandoning…

For much the same reason that requiring women to wear burkas in order to protect themselves from those ravenous menfolk is insulting for putting the onus on the woman to avoid being victimized, with the certainly-not-at-all-intended result of absolving the victimizer of his behavior.

The acting was fine, but Killmonger was not as well-written a villain as he’s being credit for. Just because his one dimension had more depth than most Marvel villains, by virtue of drawing from real-world issues, doesn’t change the fact he was laughably one-dimensional.

Maybe I can ride your coattails out of bansville . . .

No-fault insurance—which sets a default rule for who is “liable” based on easily applied, objective criteria that don’t really look to “fault”—already exists to facilitate efficient resolution of similar disputes over auto collisions with humans behind the wheel.

People tend to forget that the Emperor has no backstory whatsoever in the OT.

No one’s commented on it because I doubt anyone reads that clip the same way you do—it looks to me as though Banner, Strange, and Wong are simply holding their defensive positions, not literally frozen, while Stark strides forward to get a better look.

I expressed no opinion on the film itself, as I haven’t seen it. The “turd” being polished is its financial performance this past weekend, which was transparently poor.  

Losing the weekend box by ~$8M to a third-week film, and making only about a third of the production budget in the process, is a disappointing result at best.

It was also a major plot point in the first act of Iron Man II that Stark refused to hand over the arc reactor technology to the U.S. Government.

I took my kid to a Wizards game two weeks ago and, before the game, I took him to a restaurant nearby to grab dinner. This was a PJ Clarke’s-type joint where you can get basic bar food and it’s, like, 35 percent nicer than what you’d get at a Chili’s but also 50 percent more expensive.

Probably!