I was in some ultra-hipster craft-brew bar, and it seemed like I was the only one of around 50 or 60 people warching the game. I’m even more certain there wasn’t a single Rockets fan in attendance, being a thousand miles from Texas. Then Harden did this, and everyone jumped up and the place went nuts. Followed by a…

(...and hand Harden a triple-double).

I wish I could rewind the past 25 years and play Wing Commander again for the first time. The “actual screenshots” on the box were flagrantly fabricated, but it didn’t keep me from enjoying those thousand hours I spent spacing Kilrathi. There was no internet. Now we’ve got this bullshit. “The resolution seemed much…

You mentioned the “very good safety reasons not to encourage the men with razor-sharp blades on their feet to kick at things.” Did you miss the part where Shaw’s razor-sharp foot-blade nearly castrates a guy during his uncontrolled descent? Jumping and landing on someone’s foot will get you a twisted ankle in…

So this thing redirects itself with something like canards that can handle seven or eight times the speed of sound? How are we capable of creating and deploying such shit when, on the other hand...uh, F-35?

I’m genuinely concerned that I couldn’t physically handle this in 3D.

And how far down the line should it go? What about the delivery vendors who supply contractors like DNC, and the food service wholesalers who supply the delivery vendors? The Orioles chose to compensate their own staff for the loss of anticipated wages; it’s incumbent upon their associated partners to make that same…

Entertaining AND effective!? Dear Lord, please let the Clippers crush the Rockets by assigning Dwight Howard to defend Matt Barnes, amen.

tl;dr Bill Simmons got fired for that shirt he wore on Chopped

In an earlier post (linked at the bottom of this one), Rogoway said that the A-10 is being phased basically because “it’s not a sexy machine”. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose, because the JSF looks to me like it fell from the ugly tree and hit every branch (nevermind its innumerous inadequacies). The…

Still waiting for the 10,000-megaton take that blots out the sun for a hundred years. Hasn’t Bayless chimed in yet?

“Yes any idiot can buy that stuff online, it doesn’t make you competent.” The same could be said of the amateur jihadists with AKs and body armor who were handily defeated by a pistol-packing beat cop.

Great read, thank you.

So when will they re-re-instate the Blackbird from mothballs (is it even possible at this point)? 50 years later, it’s still ahead of it’s time, still untouchable, and fills a role that can’t be met today by legions of drones, satellites, conventional recon and supporting personnel. Upgraded with a modern surveillance…

The current state of America isn’t any worse than it’s ever been (and it’s been much, much worse). The difference is that it’s becoming increasingly impossible for people to not listen. Or at least tougher to ignore.

“It’s the police, it’s not worth it...we don’t need you to get arrested tonight.” Allowing himself to be arrested live on CNN might have been the most effective thing he could have done at that point. Not much else to do beyond blithely narrating the same angles being shot by the legion of journo crews crowding the…

Could a consensus top-ten college prospect (who’d rather win Superbowls than a fat check from a team that perennially sucks and/or actively tanks) just forego entering the draft, and sign later (for less) with a good team that wouldn’t stunt his development and waste his window of peak ability?

Older Me doesn’t care for Tim Burton’s Batman nearly as much as Younger Me supposedly did, though Young Me’s fondness for Reeve’s Superman still holds up (excluding the third and fourth ones, obviously. Even eight-year-old me knew those were trash).

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I guess that, based on the context and sheer lunacy of what’s being spoken, I imagined it to have well exceeded the average pace of casual conversation