Is there some embedded psychosis that makes some women desecrate public stalls like they are angry chimps? It’s not just the bowl and seat that get wrecked.

A lot of business people choose to fly Southwest because it is often a better experience than on any of the “full service” airlines, which increasingly strategize to get every extra dollar they can out of you for things that used to be included in the ticket price, especially with the Basic Economy scam, which is…

I am wondering if the agent was so unused to infants with passports and used to parents showing birth certificates that she was unaware that a passport = birth certificate-plus

Oooh, cool.

It effectively was not called. For one thing, it was missed at first. For another, it could have been five minutes. And Perron’s penalty only happened in response to the hit and noncall. There was no power play, so Wilson and his team paid zero price for the hit.

Reaves’s crosscheck definitely should have been called, but it is something that happens a number of times a game; as things go, it’s not on the dirty scale of Wilson leveling a guy who wasn’t prepared to be trucked. Your addition about the crosscheck leading to the goal—that’s up to the ref. Reaves is going to do…

Maybe an uncalled cross check? It was an uncalled cross check. That allowed Reaves to score the goal. The NHL still clings to its infuriating “let ‘em play” mentality and absolutely terrible and random refereeing. Consequential fouls like that one go uncalled, but if a player accidentally hoists it over the glass, off…

It shall be struck with a flaming arrow.

When you declare he is the “best goal scorer ever”—whatever that actually means (is that what you demand the announcers call him?)—you cause me to ignore the rest of what you’ve got to say.

Timing and location play such a big role. In Minnesota, almost nothing is more popular than high school and collegiate hockey, yet the North Stars finally struggled and moved due to indifference and a suburban location (in part—the culpability of ownership is always a variable).

Maybe play every other week under one or the other name. Everyone would just figure the other one was just having a bye that week.

I don’t think they would have fared much better had they been in a downtown arena. It was a time when downtowns were shunned, and Cleveland downtown was especially forlorn then—much different from now. Even in much more vibrant Chicago, teams were eyeing the suburbs when contemplating new homes.

Overt bias makes it much easier to dismiss the perspective of people who call cops pigs.

On Mackinac, all the summer employees live in employer-owned dorms, and therein it’s pretty much as you say. Absence of automobiles drives up the alcohol consumption even beyond the standard of college student summer workers.

I know people love Tony Romo but listening to an excited puppy guess plays for three hours isn’t my thing.

I’m not missing the point. Do you believe that point shaving is common in NCAA, where you can bet on some pretty piddly games as well as the big ones, played by amateurs? My disagreement with your original point was the comparison of what goes on with low-level professional tennis matches to what theoretically would…

It is easy to do that at that moment, assuming that moment comes predictably, to the player you want it to. Gamblers fixing games and betting big on it want sure things, and it’s not necessarily a sure thing that you can get to one or a few players on a football team who you know with near certainty to do things to…

Partly because fixing outcomes in team sports are harder to fix, since efforts by some on a team to throw a game might be exposed by all the players and coaches earnestly trying to win. In matches between two individuals, throwing a match is easier to do and harder to identify. Why anyone would bet on or take bets on…

OK, Hamilton. Now tell us more about bespoke suits.

That seems to be the standard line, but I look at the lineup now versus what it was and I’m not believing it. Maybe some guys who left were bigger names than valuable players. The primary loss was probably Schmidt, and the Caps weren’t using him. Their current lineup is better suited to the current NHL, and it…