I’m not 100% on it, but I think it means they have something like 23 million in cap room instead of 30-32 million in cap room. It’s a combination of timing and Anthony Davis not waiving his trade retainer (he gets 4 million for being traded, I think). They need a minimum of 25 million to sign a max deal with a free…

Board man gets paid.

So is Fred VanVleet like my favorite player now? People speaking matter-of-factly and intelligently to reporters is a crazy low bar, I guess, but that’s where I am.

“Favored” only refers to the betting lines. Basketball-knowers thought that the Raptors were favored for a long time:

The only response is: “Would it kill you to play some fucking Fog Hat?”

Great prompt for an interesting thread. One of the things that is missing from the films is the overt internationalism of the 2nd generation of X-Men, as well as the loss of Cyclops as the “continuity character.” In the comics, the shift from the original 5 to the new ones really did lead to an incredible boost in…

It’s just so fucking weird, though. I didn’t really get beat up for playing D&D as a kid, but we weren’t exactly popular, you know? I still can’t wrap my head around how mainstream it is.

The national broadcast in the States on ABC explicitly claimed that the crowd was cheering for the injury, but that they kind of stopped when the Raptors players showed some solidarity with KD and gestured for the crowd to stop. So these guys you’re responding to are following the media’s lead on this. I’m going to go…

I don’t know Albert Burneko from Adam, but I’ve probably read every one of his columns in the last 5 years at least. There’s an element of satire in each one, even when he’s being earnest. It’s a tough line to walk, and he (mostly) pulls it off. Satire belongs in ephemera like these blogs. I know I’m a self-serious…

Ross Stripling, eh? I like the cut of his jib!

I totally agree, except it happened to me, which is why I hate my Honda Pilot. My old car didn’t turn on the lights on the odometer, etc. until the exterior lights were on. The Pilot doesn’t give a shit, so the thing that let me know my lights were on or off doesn’t matter any more. Stupid f-ing car.

Boston bostons Boston Boston Boston boston Boston boston.

Your lights and your signals are *not about you*. They are for the other drivers, so that these other drivers will know your location and your intentions. Fucking turn your lights on when it’s appropriate to do so, and fucking turn your signal on before you actually start turning.

I thought that, too, until I saw the replay. Klay’s legs were straight until Green’s hip contacted his hip.

Oh, God. Burneko's article the day after he recovers from the day after that happens will be glorious. I totally agree with all his diatribes against Hinkie, but it would still be funny. 

Just don’t eat the fuckin’ croutons. They’re a stupid food.

Jacqueline Bouvier wasn’t a foreign heiress. The whole foreign thing came after her first husband was killed, remember. Onassis after Kennedy. Her dad was wealthy, but I wouldn’t put her in “heiress” territory.

As long as that public didn’t have gays, blacks, women, communists, leftists, conscientious objectors, or anything else that smacks of left-wing politics, yes, Nixon was interested in public service.

Well, the tweet that the article is using a source says “The Clippers were fined,” but the article says “Rivers was fined.” So, we have some great reporting here.

He is a computer scientist, not a linguist. Unlike, say, Larry Wall, who is both, and didn’t fuck up the name of his invention. My point being that he can say what he wants, but nobody gets to own coinages or neologisms. Also, “come” is fine as the spelling of many different words. It happens all the time that two…