Fair enough. I think Portis is an awful defensive player, and I’d be genuinely surprised if he ever finished an NBA season with a positive net rating. But he’s still young!

First of all, I read that article. Second of all, nothing in it excuses punching your coworker in the face hard enough to send him to the hospital. If it turns out Mirotic also threw a punch, or said something bad enough to deserve one, that will change things. But the fact that Portis grew up in a really tough…

I think that’s a real thing! Like, reports have it that both guys were involved in the altercation, but I think sports fights between teammates almost always are settled with shoves and/or grappling. I think you just don’t expect your teammate to sock you in the face! I don’t know if that makes it a sucker punch, but…

I’m guessing video of this incident (which is sure to exist) would make this even more of a no brainer. There is almost no way it wasn’t a cheap shot.

Face caving, jaw breaking, concussion level punches usually aren’t landed on 6'10 athletic adults who are actually defending themselves.

You and your facts... how ever well people be able to create false panic with you running around telling people that the sky isn’t falling!

I have submitted my DNA not only to 23andMe and AncestryDNA recently but I have also submitted the raw data to GEDMatch, promethease, and DNA.land. I have clicked “yes” to participating in research, and have answered all of the insight questionnaires to the best of my ability.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Trump is crazy, but just as the conservatives did to Obama, there is NOTHING that Trump can do that will please the left. There are things Obama did that I like and there are things Trump is trying to do that I like. Not everything has to be so partisan.

Google also is not a monopoly. Once upon a time that actually meant something. The breaking-up of Microsoft, when they had anywhere from 40-60 market share, only let Apple grow into a beast when they were growing organically already. That isnt competition and it isnt an excuse to call something a monopoly.

Heh. “One of the largest web browsers is going to disable one of our revenue streams! Here’s why you should be afraid...”

This article reeks of your advertising department exercising unconscionable control over editorial. Auto-play video is a cancer to the internet and ANY step to stamp it out is a welcome one. I don’t give a shit about any other opinion, particularly not bought and paid for FUD like this.

Thanks to Gizmodo and its sister sites I’ve already had to install an HTML5 video blocker so I won’t be seeing much of a change. Stop doing obnoxious shit like that and maybe I can put these sites on my whitelist like they used to be.

Yes - unfortunately the entire thing is a race to see who makes the most money.

Read: Gizmodo Media Group will have to pick a different, less fucking annoying advertising strategy.

I don’t have ad-blockers on my browsers, because I know it hurts the sites I like and that it’s a small price to pay to support my favorite sites.

Im not Jewish but the American-Jews story is a hell of a thing. Even wealthy Jewish bankers coming from Europe were excluded from banking so they simply became loan sharks to their own people until the gentile banks could no longer ignore their power.

They used to call the Catskills the Jewish Alps. Before the Jews moved in, it was mainly about cattle and leather production. It’s good cattle country and the right kinds of trees with bark for tanning leather grew there. I gather that in the 1930s it was wild and crazy, a great place for a young person to work for…

Go to Wisconsin. When the Poconos and Catskills had resorts, Wisconsin had supper clubs. Most of them are still there and still popular.

Yah, and this:

This is heart breaking. :-( I have a soft spot for mid-century modern architecture and furnishings and this is really tragic.

My god. That gorgeous woodwork at the pool! A fucking crime to let that go into neglect!