I made the mistake of seeing Joey Kocur’s punching hand while he iced it in the penalty box at JLA late in a season. Think looked like Kilauea does this week.

Marginal tax rates during the Eisenhower administration were 90%. I think it’s time to have that conversation again.

This is how things generally go when you ask the people who benefit the most from the status quo whether things should change.

But why didn’t it crash? Most likely independent and redundant control/safety systems along with a competent flight crew, all of which are the product of a culture that promotes safety.

Freaking amazing. It’s awful if someone died in this incident, but the better question to ask is why isn’t everyone dead? It’s because commercial aviation is subject to fairly rigorous government oversight and a culture of actually solving problems, as opposed to, say, the petroleum & mineral extraction industries.

Unenforceable. They tried it, didn’t work. So now they’ve decided to relax and enjoy it since it’s inevitable (looking at you, Bobby Knight). Most tournaments don’t want to shell out the $$ for armies of security goons, and rely on semi-retired country club members who volunteer to marshal the course in exchange for…

I thought his real name was Freddy Adu.

John Landy was almost certainly the better runner and Bannister pwned him on this, as chronicled by Tim Noakes’s presentation a few years ago and elsewhere.

It’s past time to eliminate the tax deduction for any gifts to schools (primary, secondary, collegiate) that are used for athletics. The arms race going among DC area (I live in Mont Co) private schools is insane, and it’s only getting worse.

Kelly Walsh HS does this annually to psych themselves up for the big match against cross-town rival Guantanamo Bay HS.

Just like with Baylor, just like with Penn State, this horror happened at Michigan State but it could have been any one of ~150 colleges.

The state university athletic departments are public institutions. How the hell do you think we know so much about Jim Harbaugh’s dining habits?

Here’s this obituary in musical form:

Sonny would have understood Donald Trump.

I’m going to be yelling about this every time my wife wants to watch the little dinner-mints at the next summer Olympics.

This buys his friends in the fossil fuel industry a few extra months, tops, maybe. Forces much more powerful than the dipshit president* have condemned coal to the dustbin of history.

Bob Lutz is one step away from lecturing an empty chair.

Somebody in the American League please offer Jeter some cash and a gift bag for Yelich because we Nats fans are tired of his homerun trot.

As a Tesla owner/fanboy it warms my heart every time one of these companies pops up, most likely to set a few hundred million $$ on fire before dying. Sooner or later one will stick (aside from real competitors like VW) and the world will be better for it.

According to Baseball Reference, Jeter made $265 million over the course of his career. Even after taxes and excessive gift-bag expenses, he better be worth in excess of $100 million. Or in other words, these numbers should not move his needle.