“Fancy” was originally written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, who also wrote and recorded “Ode to Billie Joe,” the song that knocked “All You Need Is Love” off the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Good stuff.

You can reasonably argue that a big slice of Republican voters are voting against their personal interest, or that the party doesn’t deliver what it promises. But they aren’t being ‘tricked’ into voting for the stuff that the party is actively selling.

I live in catfish country. It’s one of the few fish I don’t want to eat, ever.

I love watching a dog’s gums roll back while it eats a fried pig ear. It looks like it has 167 teeth.

“Everyone but the center” identifies ten specific players. It may not be correct, but it’s specific. “Pretty much everyone” is inherently vague, like ‘many’ or ‘most.’

The ratings this weekend won’t be better than any other games between good big-name teams. The only people who particularly care about the outcome of the Big Ten championship game are the fans of the two schools. There’s no real drama, because the two finalists and the other good Big Ten teams will be in the NCAA…

No, they don’t want to do whatever Trump says.

The total bill for all of the assistants probably is half of what a big-time HC gets, and it isn’t subject to salary cap. If there are a few guys the next HC doesn’t want, it’s not a big deal to pay them off. Certainly compared to the clusterfuck that the Colts are in now, paying off some of McDaniel’s guys is a tiny…

True, it could easily rotate several times in 24 hours. If it’s inside the orbit of Mars, it could be cycled several hundred degrees F.

I would guess it would go through many fewer temperature cycles in deep space than on Earth. Zero humidity.

Unless it were a three man crew of Bill Cosby, Jerry Sandusky, and Larry Nasser, I think a private space program would be pretty popular on Jalopnik regardless of the operator.

I suppose it’s an upgrade from the coal that usually powers them.

Yes, exactly right.

Assuming that it’s the car you want, heavy depreciation is your friend if you’re buying used. The seller takes the hit, not the buyer.

Yes. So is a Ducati Panigale.

How someone would decide they wanted a Mercury Milan over a Fusion is a fascinating mystery, and an understanding of that would make one a wizard-like expert on human behavior.

Grade: Fail

Football coaches/QBs have been deliberately using misdirection and counterintuitive plays since Pop Warner in the 19th century (the actual man, not the association). Either you look like a genius or a doofus, depending on the outcome.

I noticed that the foreign countries called the play in real time as they saw it. ‘The tight end passes to Foles for the touchdown.’ The US announcers got juked like the Pats looking for what they expected.

“I’m leaving you in the game to punish you for being terrible.”