I will be honest, I did not expect the first doping bust of the Olympics be from curling. And in a weird way I found my respect for it increased because of it.

Of course scandals like this are nothing new in curling. Last year at the Tournament of Hearts the Skip of the Manitoba team was busted for having a blood-alcohol level under .12. The sport still hasn’t recovered.

Your first point should be a bold headline at the top of the article. Huggins’ teams get away with so much shit because that’s their literal strategy: be overwhelmingly “physical” and foul all the time because then the refs will only call the worst of the worst and you’ll get away with hacking the shit out of your…

Your last paragraph is WVU in a nutshell and really all you need to know about the situation. This is a well-established Huggings strategy. Have your team hack the shit out of their opponent, figuring that if you commit an overwhelming amount of fouls, the refs will only call the most egregious and let all the other…

Didn’t see the game, but two facts to start with:

Some of that disparity we can attribute to a home court advantage, but the vast majority of it is self evident if you watch either of these two teams.

The entire argument of this article is that “if we ban guns they will be too hard for people to make themselves.” That is not true.

Easier than synthesizing ‘ludes. Making a gun, even a rather good gun, requires less tools, less knowledge, and no precursors that could be regulated.

Reloading is a thing and people are able to cast their own bullets.

The problem with your argument is that you can’t reuse a Quaalude. Once you use it, you have to go buy another one. Eventually you run out of Quaaludes to buy. You can reuse a gun.... a lot. So you only need to buy one and it works practically forever. 

Guns are not hard to make, even from scratch with just a hand file.

The Mist obviously belongs on the good list.

Tom Jane was the practical, reasonable guy surrounded by a bunch of crazy people going on blind faith. He got kicked out, and when confronted with a no-win scenario, he did the practical thing. Had he had a little faith, everyone would have lived.

It’s an emotional kneecapping and it’s one of the better twists in genre…

Nope. You have The Mist in the wrong list - that ending is brutal, haunting and utterly chilling, and the film is all the better for it.

She should have been Kylo’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.

Umm, I do. I want to see them save the world with the power of good tunes and being excellent to each other.

I would verrry much like a Bill and Ted movie that is a sequel, not a reboot (sorta getting reboot-fatigue)

I always loved how this crap works. Places like monuments and zoos and parks, which are essentially owned BY THE PUBLIC, are closed because the “government” cant get their shit together. Its been a long time coming, but the whole governmental process in this country needs a major overhaul. This comes second to my…

Deficits become debt when they are not paid back. Our current annual budget is $4 trillion. The tax revenues as of last year was about $1.4 trillion.

Actually it does. Debt incurs interest payments. That comes out of tax revenues. Shit will get real when interest payments start eating into other discretionary spending like welfare, military, etc.