It’s not just the airlines. You should go into a 7-11 in Tokyo. Or a McDonald’s. It’s like being served at Le Bernadin compared to the West.

Soon nuclear war will be over and Alex English can go back to playing basketball.

I was wondering this also. It’s a blog, not a print magazine. You don’t have a deadline to get it typeset in time for this month’s issue. Why did they have to mollify some no-name freelancer that his article would be published “on time”? Were Stout and Arnold good friends or something?

Uh... what the fuck are you talking about? Do you really think the purpose of headlines is to get the reader to access the entire article. No, that is the purpose of hyperlinks in commercial websites. If you have any further brilliant insights into the historical development of newspaper headlines, I suggest you also…

Sigh. No one is saying that the headline was inaccurate. It was perfectly accurate. But it was phrased in such a way as to be purposefully vague so as to motivate the reader to click through to the article. (As an aside, keep in mind that the headlines alone are posted to the site’s Twitter account, with no additional…

Wow, “Mamba” in Spanish is “La Mamba.” Good to know.

I’ve now watched this about 145 times, and I still can’t figure out how the other Houston player didn’t come up with that ball. Did he have a stroke?

Meh, I actually kinda agree. The term “carted off” at least has the connotation (if not the denotation) of a serious head or spinal injury. I clicked the article expecting to read that he had limited use of his extremities, or something. He could have been “gingerly carried off..”, as opposed to Lockette. Oh well,…

Pointing out that he’s not yet old enough to drink seems odd, insofar as that also applies to Jahlil Okafor, KAT, Porzingod, Andrew Wiggins, Justice Winslow, 75% of the 76ers, NBA slam-dunk champion Zach LaVine and essentially everyone who has been drafted in the past 3 years.