Nowadays the conventional wisdom is that you need to leave some money on the table if you want the couple of stars plus deep bench necessary to win a championship. Lebron is getting max money for four years, so he’s not doing that. Understandable, but how will he get the assets needed to make a serious run at another…

Farscape in HD?

Our system of international relations is more robust and can take more damage than its rudimentary predecessor of 1914. We have established and settled international law, international courts, the UN, the WTO, the OECD, a number of other global organizations and an intricate global economy that enforces a minimum…

He’s the inverse of Chuck Norris.

Cheating and treason are a matter of political survival for the Republican Party. That’s what distinguishes it from actual conservative parties in liberal democracies, parties whose policies are less extremist, appeal to a broader electorate and allow them to gain majorities fair and square.

That’s true. It didn’t make much of a buzz in theatres and among critics, even though it’s one of the best movies of its genre. I wonder why it wasn’t a bigger thing at the time?

I’m surprised they haven’t continued that franchise after the fifth installment eight years ago.

If it really was that easy, most Hollywood blockbusters wouldn’t be mediocre. They’re playing it safe with the tried and true Marvel formula, why change anything 20 movies in, when even the mediocre entries make a billion dollars? Why take any creative risks?

Reminds me of this beautiful scene from Rush.

It’s not any dumber than believing Jesus had magical powers, which is still a consensus belief among a majority of Americans.

The Chinese will soon repaint them in a bright red.

He’s said he wants to play till 40 because it’ll give him the opportunity to play on the same team as his son. Unsure if that’ll end up being the case, but I think that’s his current plan.

She walked out of that burning tent like a T-1000 on a bad hair day.

Reading the title, I assumed you had news about his alleged rape in Las Vegas.

Really, WWI wouldn’t have happened if Austria-Hungary hadn’t sat on their asses for months after the assassination. Which would have likely resulted in a smaller war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia which probably wouldn’t have brought the Allied and Central Powers into conflict.

It’s a fun thought experiment to play “what if Al Gore had won,”

I have a burner because I don’t use facebook/twitter/google and won’t register an account there just to be able to register one here. How convoluted is that registration process? I’m completely baffled why this site doesn’t allow me to register a full account with an e-mail address and a password like every single…

Groovy.

Ned will pop up to solve everything in the last book.

It’s just the thing Littlefinger would do of course, since it further destabilized the realm.