I agree, but that’s assuming he doesn’t already know. Apparently he and Van Gundy are on cordial but not particularly friendly terms, so who knows how he would take it. (Beyond, you know, being horrified that someone would want to send him to Sacramento, which you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.)

My favorite piece of just fucking weird baseball trivia: Damion Easley was in the home run derby...in 1998.

Hey, the 2000 team was pretty good. They had a plausible shot at the wild card, and they had Dean Palmer’s amazing brawl against the White Sox.

That game was amazing. But there was no way anyone other than Verlander was winning the Cy Young that year. I went to two of his starts that year, and in one (at home against the White Sox? in July) there was an audible groan from the crowd when he gave up his first hit in the third inning. (The other start was the…

Don’t forget the symbolic value of a black Muslim leading the opposition party to Trump.

The proper response was, “Things are bad, but if you think voting for the party of Paul Ryan is going to help you’re insane.”

To be fair, there are thousands of people in Washington who graduated college long ago and now hold positions of real power who fail to understand the conflict. The just see it as “enemy terrorists/friendly victims”.

You’re not wrong, but I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. To adjust your analogy, imagine the constitution of Oklahoma called for the destruction of Texas, while at the same time Texas controlled the economy of Oklahoma and the movement and political exercise of its citizens, was systematically settling Texans…

It’s not one bus. The current jail site is in the middle of downtown, so there are lots of bus routes that go there, and it’s down the street from the central transit station. Moving the complex anywhere outside of that area makes it less accessible.

It’s been pointed out that the Gratiot complex would also house courts, and that corner is much more accessible by bus than somewhere outside of downtown, which is a major consideration for a public building like that. While I agree that a jail right there is not ideal, downtown needs more workplaces where people will…

Whatever your stance on drone strikes and the killing of Americans abroad, Anwar Awlaki was the target when he was killed. Nora Awlaki was collateral damage.

It’s not gay. Just two men celebrating each other’s strength.

Not quite. The raid was planned by the military, but the Obama administration decided it was too risky for the possible benefit and rejected it as an option.

Think about it this way: if Curry can make at least 34/50 from 3 (which he certainly can), he scores more points than 50 wide open layups.

No. And he considers it a funny story, at least. But their apology did not help.

You’re not wrong.

My favorite story about European racism: a black American friend of mine was in Amsterdam on vacation, and he got really drunk one night and fell asleep on the sidewalk. He awoke to three Dutch guys attacking him. He got up and yelled at them in English, and they immediately stopped. They apologized, telling him they…

Because those attacks are in defense of us.*

As someone whose introduction to Quebec was moving there in the middle of the Bouchard-Taylor commission, I don’t know that you can make that distinction between pro-Quebecois xenophobia and racism.

That’s my point. I’m agnostic on whether rugby or football is more dangerous, but, to use your analogy, in a demolition derby, a guy in the ‘55 Chevy is going to be more worried about his own safety than a guy in the 2015 Chevy, and therefore adjust his own actions.