Or you could just stay home and watch Planes, Trains & Automobiles instead...

My earliest memory of watching a sports event was the ‘85 Bears-Patriots Superbowl, so I guess I’ve been at this dumb shit for 36 years now, and never at any point in all that time have I wanted an athlete to succeed as much as I do Jordan Love this Sunday. I think I would probably give up a kidney if he could post…

The median income for cooks in the US is just $27,290/year. Which works out to $13.37/hour

The whole thing is suspect, “baked potato” for Wisconsin? WTF? I’ve been to close to 40 Thanksgiving dinners in Wisconsin and never has a baked potato made an appearance, ever. It’s just a normal thing someone would eat most any day of the year without a second thought; the laziest, most dissolute bachelor on Earth…

As De Gaulle (ever the source of a great quip, be it real or apocryphal) supposedly offered, “the graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

I’m on the fence about this.  On the one hand, there are laundromats everywhere, and especially nowadays it’s pretty easy to just keep around enough clothes that you only need to go every three or four weeks, and can do it all at once by using multiple machines.  On the other, paper cups and Solo cups can render a…

Anytime you hear a Republican whining about people “dropping out of the workforce” or the mythical “labor shortage”, what they’re really saying is “the serfs are getting uppity so it’s time to grind their faces a little harder.”

I guess that means DeSantis is no more than 18 mos. away from snagging some more star free agents.  

They can also huddle there in fear, which is what they’re going to spend a huge proportion of their time and mindshare on, if my time living in South Africa was any indication. Setting incredible wealth just across the expressway from shanty towns that wash away in the rain is brilliant public policy, assuming you…

Oh, you still could, it’s just a question of dosage...

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me they’ve also restricted themselves to guys who are maybe upwards of 170 lbs or so, various middleweights, basically, whereas Tyson is another proposition altogether, he’s at least 50 lbs heavier than that. Even setting aside everything else (much of which lies in his favor…

As much to the point, he’s a great driver but he isn’t even close to being a “definite” Top-5 “most famous athlete”, considering there are almost certainly five players more famous in soccer alone; I don’t even really watch it except during World Cups and can easily imagine Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Zlatan are all…

Definitely, though as you note at least the current one is reasonably restrained. Compare that situation to Wisconsin’s awesome old black on yellow plates (some of the best in the country) vs. the stupid modern design with a silhouette of a dumb farm (of course) aaaaand...a sailboat (WTF? Why? Why!?).

Actually, one could argue it existed since the Dragon’s Lair arcade laserdisc came out, so 1983?  

Yeah, no quite, the information is easily discerned by anyone who can type. Here are the top reviews for the $18 heatsink I bought last month:

Seeing Dexter and The OA place but The Expanse completely absent is like being told Surfer Rosa sucks by a collective of 311 and Kid Rock fans.  

Yeah, well, call me crazy, but I don’t see the expectation that a big-budget adaptation of a classic sci-fi story, written by an American author, made by an American studio, should treat American audiences like something other than an afterthought as really all that radical. Back when I lived in Chicago there was a…

“Now”? Bob Larson was filling entire books with exactly this shit forty years ago...

I sympathize; WB has completely botched this release schedule. I liked the book series a lot, and Villeneuve as well, but I’m specifically not going to a theater to see it just because I’m annoyed that the U.S. release was pushed back five weeks (so only half of what you have to deal with) relative to so many other…

Agreed, I fucking hate the chintzy, half-assed included stand, it is beyond abysmal for horizontal placements. It’s bizarre, the console is basically the exact size/shape as a stereo component (preamp, cd player, tape deck, tuner, etc.), a rough physical standard that has existed for well over half a century now and…