If you accept the idea of reviewing penalties, the idea that a flag has to be thrown for a review to occur is silly and literally half-assed, in the sense of covering one side of the same coin. Analogous is the current supposed standard that “scoring plays are automatically reviewed.” No, all plays in which a score is …

Indeed, Ken Jennings says Alex might be our last Walter Cronkite figure.

Except wine snobs don’t jump out of their seat and howl in derision when some low-rent wine is mentioned in any context. They might say it sucks, but they generally don’t think it’s some kind of crime to drink Yellow Tail. Mention Coors Lite or Bud Lite, and out will come the references to horse piss and the “if I…

Yes, it’s not the grave diagnosis implied here. For instance, almost anyone who has ACL reconstruction and is cleared to play (and feels good) is almost certain to be developing arthritis with time--ie, in a few years.

“Arthritis in the knee” is a rather vague diagnosis. Within a few years of any traumatic injury to a joint with damage to cartilage, some arthritis is going to develop, so this could be a condition that a contact sport athlete like Gurley would have rather predictably. Stem cells are not really the dramatic treatment…

The Office (American) went increasingly flaccid. The boss became an impotent, comic figure, and nobody seemed accountable for anything. Unlike in Office Space, there was really nothing at stake, and in contrast to a soul-crushing place where your work life and hours outside of work were subject to the whim of idiotic…

And now the Cubs are in bed with Sinclair, forming a TV network with a Trump propaganda factory.

Not exactly true. They are still the indicated test for many individuals.

Agree. The procedure itself isn’t bad if they drug you; I don’t remember it. It’s the day of prep. And to me the worst thing about that is not the drinking of gallon of solution or even the evacuation, but the starvation.

One thing that depresses me is that Trump is pretty decent at golf. Whatever you think of golf, you have to be naturally coordinated to be good at it. 

Not really a goon; he barely ever fights, and he has hockey skills to play on top three lines. But he is a dirty hitter/headhunter.

Isn’t it an article of faith that women’s rooms are the worst, especially in regard to horror shows on the walls somehow, in addition to the mess made from hovering.

Something about the showers in fitness centers make men compelled to hock out every last molecule of mucus from their lungs like they are locals on a Shanghai subway platform. Is it the inviting drain? The steam? The illusion of permanently vacating their lungs of phlegm?

And there are some guys who are considered champion-type players and some who are not.

The cool kids make fun of the fuddy-duddy idea that costing your team by not hustling is just the Major League way if you really understood big league players. But the implication here is that there’s a binary choice between hustling on every single play (absurd!) and just as likely as not to be hustling on any given…

Take a breath, socialists of America. She put him on her transition team. She didn’t abdicate and make him governor.

NBA is more opera than sport. 

Midway is fine for convenience and efficiency if you live relatively close or are coming from downtown. But it primarily serves Southwest (nothing wrong with SW, but it kinda limits the airport) and is cramped and undistinguished. Apart from access by transit from the Loop, I can’t imagine how it would rank in the top…

It’s just a rule that every person has one airline of the big three that is the very worst hands down—which they will explain to you in a way that is generally based on one bad incident they had. The distribution of the very worst is generally even among the three. I say Delta’s the pits because they stuck me in…

The Fairness Doctrine was a mandate to provide equal time. That’s a different issue than the grounds a broadcast license holder can use to selectively accept or reject political advertising. There are First Amendment and public ownership of the airwaves issues involved.