It’s an interesting set up, to say the least. It’s a closed system of elites, where the Supreme Leader has tremendous influence, but that influence is highly structured, so as not to have absolute power. And the President, being directly elected (though after having been vetted by a joint body of religious and legal…

The Titans would be 100% more enjoyable if everyone just referred to them as “The Tits”

Ahmadinejad doesn’t have a good US counterpart. He’s a religious conservative within the context of Shi’a Islam, but he’s on the left in terms of economic policy/philosophy. Like a weird love child of Bernie Sanders and Billy Graham only he’s not a cleric like Graham..

When I was in college I got to meet Senator George Mitchell about a month after the Good Friday Peace Accords were signed. I remember he talked a lot about getting people to refocus from the past to the present/future. So the history matters in that it provides strong symbolism that acts as both motivation/recruitman…

Meth is a helluva drug.

If your observation is true, maybe you should try something called sports gambling, and try and make a little something for yourself.

Niles Crane: “What’s the word in French for ‘light hearted’?”
Frasier Crane: “There isn’t one.”

CLEGANE BOWL CONFIRMED

Johnny Mac was a real grinder, despite none of his time in the Navy being spent on a submarine. 

That’s magnifique. 

This comment speaks to the silent, but deadly, nature of our humanity.

So how many people don’t have Bartolo Colon as their upper bound?

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Also, during their playoff game last year, I switched back and forth between the game and The Lion King which was showing at the same time on Freeform. I do not have children.

It may leave him way-layla’ed.

The only things I remember from Butch Hobson’s tenure with the Red Sox

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Fucking Whoa.

I’ve been to Patriot road games in KC and Buffalo. I don’t know if I could handle the Zubaz Explosion that must be a Chiefs-Bills game. That’s probably 80% of the world’s Zubaz supply in one city. 

Over the summer, there was a Sirius XM channel that was dedicated to U2, as they did their summer tour in the States. There were interview clips with the band members they would play between songs. One interesting one was Adam Clayton talking about the song from 1997's POP, “Last Night on Earth”. The video for that…

Where’s William Safire when you need him?