It’s amazing to me that people who are (presumably) very pro-criminal justice reform in all other senses, are so quick to want to broaden police and prosecutorial power when it would punish someone they don’t like.  The idea that calling the police for what you perceive to be, but isn’t, a crime is preposterous, and I…

Brown quit on the team before a literally must win game. I can’t really fault the Steelers for letting the relationship wither away. Whatever grievances he has with the team, I imagine a whole lot more players have grievances with him too.

Jimenez was a passenger in a car that lost control on the highway and struck a guardrail.

Yeah, especially as they’ve confirmed that drugs and alcohol (and speeding) wasn’t involved. You can do everything you’re supposed to as a driver and still not be prepared for a pedestrian to appear in front of you on the highway.

The quotes are not even reviews, they’re from the “Want to see it” or “not interested” score. It’s acknowledged right in the score that they haven’t seen the movie yet! Which makes the repeated comments about the fact that the trolls are “reviewing” a movie “they haven’t seen yet” completely disingenous.

Last night’s episode in particular was spot on.

You mean the boy band auto-tuning about something they couldn’t explain even 1% of doesn’t push you towards making a major financial decision with them?

A friend of mine started watching LOST on Netflix, but for some reason the episode list for each season loaded out of order, so he watched it that way. The plotlines obviously made no sense, but since he already knew the show’s reputation as being, well, not straighforward, he thought that was just a part of the…

I don’t know that a free agent, at least one who is not all-NBA (and how many all-NBA players are realistically looking at them), would be too swayed to sign with the Pels if they deliberately made their team’s future outlook worse by accepting an awful package just to make an outgoing player happy after he said eff…

Basically Albert disagrees with the NBA’s entire system of personnel management and the idea that players should not have complete freedom at any point in time. But instead of writing about that, he has decided to make the Pels solely responsible for upholding the system that he came up with in his head. And it is…

If contracts were structured in such a way that the team is not able to seek a trade that works best for them, and has to trade a player only to the destination that player wants, then that significantly decreases the value of the contract (especially long-term ones) for the team. Which means they will be less willing…

Not only do you TAKE IT, you have moral obligation to do so!

I’d argue it is not even contingent on that. If a better package doesn’t materialize, they can still almost definitely get the same package from the Lakers.  They literally lose nothing by waiting.

Yeah, but somehow they deserve AD, while the Pelicans being better than the Lakers the past few years without any of the draft pick or market advantages you mention above mean they were morally obligated to trade him wherever he wanted to go for whatever was offered.

“Petulantly stonewalling Davis’s destination of choice” by, uh, declining a lousy offer for a bunch of shitty players who can’t even get LeBron to the playoffs this year?

There is no single aspect of the human anatomy, even at its most natural extreme, that has as much of an impact on ability level in sports than the normal difference between males and females.

The point isn’t that a $1 trillion deficit is a greater problem than the environment. It’s that if the $1 trillion deficit is already a potential issue, how can a plan which calls for increasing it by 700% annually be remotely practical? There are no amount of corporate and upper tax cuts that can be undone, which…

I don’t know that you can really blame Republicans for not coming up with viable alternatives when the bill’s own sponsors didn’t come up with a viable plan in the first place.

Yeah, Keanu being able (and willing) to do like 90% of the stunt work in John Wick is the reason they could film the action scenes as wide shots. As much as the director(s) and choreographers deserve credit for how awesome (and fresh) those scenes are, their vision only worked because they had an actor capable of…

The title is at least more clear than the first paragraph which somehow takes 1,000 words and like four awful and obfuscating jokes just to get to the damn release date.