Wow. Good thing you are here to tell people what they ought to call themselves and others. Self-identifying expats typically intend on going back to their country of origin. They are working a specific gig, in (what they hope to be) temporary exile or something like that. I’ve known a few. Happens none of them were…

And let them bring weapons to meets, kill all of their opponents, and swim alone, gloriously, to victory. No. Limits. On. Competition. Let needless punctuation rule over needless limits!

“Speculation and rumors that the Warriors, by the way, encouraged by creating an information vacuum about what was going on with Durant’s injury.”

You are, I suppose, familiar with the Iliad. But consider most of your readers aren't. You might, say, post an explanatory link about the Iliad being mostly about Achilles sitting out.

People honestly *like* these bs celebrations? There about as fun as an executive producer acceptance speech.

If you feel you’re in mourning, you mourn. If part of that is making a public statement about it, you do that. You don’t have to go through life always, everywhere making the maximally appropriate decision vis-a-vis the internet busybodocracy. Sometimes you act according to your feelings. If you don’t feel the same…

With all these advanced metrics it’s amazing that every team doesn’t win the championship every year.

Nothing weird about it. Can’t shoot for known, addressable cause is better than can’t shoot because ????!

Not a very good article, but lots of good comments. I’d say all of these things are true:

Are you sorry *and* we get to eat your ass? Or is ass eating off the table now?

I entirely agree that a standing o is totally the wring thing to do to express forgiveness gor some pretty awful public statements.

Yes, this is inherently a story that needs to be covered.

Kate: Just stumbled on this piece. I’ve been a fairly avid reader of beer writing since the 1980s. While there’s a lot more of it now, the typical quality has fallen quite a bit imo.

a number of fronts, this story is a load of hooey. The Raj soldiers you are talking about would have been ale drinkers, not lager drinkers. And how is cheapness the sole criterion in a beer that has *more* of both the costly ingredients—namely hops and malt—than what these soldiers would have been used to drinking?…

There’s all kinds of unexamined assumptions behind this discussion. Are young players’ salaries artificially suppressed? Yes, we all have known that for quite a while. That’s what the CBA is built to do.

But how in the world does that change what team management pays a mediocre crop of free agents right now for their…

Actual evidence that TV money is “walking” and there is no fairly obvious replacement revenue stream for what gets lost from TV? I know it feels great to make apocalyptic proclamations about technology, but the vast majority of them turn out to be wrong.

Fishy+Fascinating ought to equal leave it alone, or lead with fishy, NOT just run with it anyway.

Not sharing everything with the press is “weird shit?” I guess in your rather narrow horizons world. To me and most other folks I imagine hostility to you guys seems pretty damn normal. But whatever.