In my hometown in the Frozen North (the one that uses US of America money and doesn’t want to have a University system any more), three of the seven high schools are named after people. My high school was named for a writer of doggerel who passed through the 49th State on the way to get that sweet Yukon gold—and to…

Getting r/watchpeopledie off Reddit would be a badge of honor. 

This is a $2500 car on offer for $4800. CP all day long. 

The world you’re looking for, Bill, is churlish. And it’s meant to apply to this “analysis,” not to the Canadians.

Rapinoe almost scored on a decent delivery to the GK’s right in the second half. If we’re going to pick on Rapinoe I think we need to ask hard questions about how nobody was making good passes or creating opportunities.  Maybe it’s harder to get s flow going when Spain played the hack-a-Shaq defense for most of the…

I suppose these terms came into use when the men were moderately successful (in American terms) and the women were very good and they needed to distinguish the two, particularly in social media. I’ve long argued that we should simply refer to the team playing now as the US Team, because the men’s team is clearly the…

Help me out with this play because I’m still hardly knowledgeable about all the rules in soccer. Is the offsides call only made with respect to the player who plays the ball, or to any player in an offside position when the ball is received by a player who is onside? Because England had a player in an offside position…

I love seeing Louisville lose in just about anything. 

I love the EMB 135-145s just because of the 1-2 seat configuration. Of course, everyone is wise to that, and those one-side seats fill fast! And while small-ish, the E-170/190s are my favorite plane. I used to fly ALB-DCA and back on the regular, and the southbound flight was always the 170, and the northbound was a…

This is the correct take. What am I supposed to do now at 8 o’clock in the morning, when I get to my office? Work?

That sounds about right. But a bigger plane doesn’t necessarily mean more comfortable. I flew an Airbus A380 from JFK to CDG years ago, and economy class was just as packed as any plane I’ve ever flown. But it’s a fascinating airplane. 

Ever fly coach in a ‘47? It’s not much different than a 777 now. 

+1 unpaid speeding ticket by a Quebecois driver. 

tl;dr: everything in sports and tv and the world is bad and wrong and if you’re experiencing any joy right now you’re wrong. 

I’m watching the game now. It didn’t look like an OG in real time, and really didn’t in replay. In any case, calling a deflection off a player like that an own goal gives little credit to Heath, and tags the defender with having made an error that she didn’t really make. But I’ll never understand FIFA.

We do. There’s tons of transoceanic cables.

Twenty four hours to fly to Australia? Sounds bad until you consider how people used to do it—measured in days, not hours. Like in 1935, when the trip from London to Brisbane took 12.5 days by plane and cost the equivalent of over $17k in today’s money. We’ve never had it so good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo…

Since you invited some knowledge: the US dropped its supersonic program (the Boeing SST) because these planes are loud, fuel inefficient, and annoy the neighbors at the airports they fly into/out of. The feds—which were subsidizing the program—saw that the future was cheap subsonic flights made possible by planes like…

Twenty-two grand for a car with an uncertain provenance, 180k miles on the clock, and a future spent with one’s favorite mechanic? I know there’s a market for these, but these aren’t very good SUVs in any form. Meh. CP.

A good ol’ aileron roll is a 1g move, but looks cool as hell, viz.