Thank you, my sense of Chinese geography is pretty good, but I was suddenly questioning myself on this one until I looked at a map. In no sense is Dailan the "middle" of China.

We need to contact the creator and have the same type of posters created for airport/airplane etiquitte here in the US.

My mind is pretty obliterated that there are Sox towns in NY and Yankees towns in MA. Granted, all of the offending towns have approximately seven or eight residents.

Southeast Expressway?

Absolutely. The scoring system gives heavy weight to traffic density and socioeconomic factors, and now they're acting as if it is meaningful that the higher scoring areas are poor neighborhoods and highways.

I believe that being rewarded for hits with a trough of grain is the exact training method that made Prince Fielder into the specimen he is today.

Or it could be Sam Adams' Utopia

Oh I'm sorry, did Jerry Remy commit a crime? Or is what is being discussed even a crime? Sorry, I forgot that Jerry Remy is never allowed to have an opinion on anything ever again because his adult son is a roided-out psychopath.

"Sure, I'll give it a try" - Shawne Merriman

I seriously don't remember Belichick ever challenging something that couldn't be challenged, and definitely don't remember him being penalized for doing so. Usually in that case the ref just has a discussion with the coach and encourages the coach to pick up the red flag.

Some serious credit is due here for making me laugh a non-guilty laugh in the comments of an article this sad.

Gree-heee-hee-eeeeeeeassy!

I'm interested to read the whole paper when I have time, but I'm wondering if the simplest explanation is that women in more secular states are more likely to participate in sports, not that the sports cause women to become more secular. Also, women who participate in high school sports may be more likely to attend…

Fort Lauderdale Airport isn't exactly the sort of airport which has flights coming and going at all hours... I'm surprised someone didn't notice that a guy had been in the airport for three straight days, especially if he was in the middle of some sort of mental break.

Oddly enough this triggered one of those "I'm getting old" moments for me. Players I watched get drafted when I was in high school are retiring now...

To be fair to baseball, Don and Jerry are far more prone to this stuff than other baseball announcers. By early August they've usually run out of traditional banter and resort to to some truly odd topics to kill time.

A case can easily be made for the Destiny. A ship that is still in operable condition after millions of years of operation with no hands-on maintenance. A ship that literally dives into stars to recharge its power supply. A ship that has traveled a significant fraction (several billion light years) of the observable…

Had the exact same question...

$5.5 million seems incredibly low.

I'm currently visiting Albany for work, it's mindblowing to consider that this was once the sixth most populous city in the US.