Are you by any chance familiar with Sturgeon’s Law?  Basically, most movies of any kind are trash.

I remember reading an interview with Chris Webber back in the 90's. He said when he was traded from Washington to Sactown as the plane approached Sactown he looked out and saw nothing but farms and empty land, started the cry and called home telling parents he’d rather quit than play there. His mom told him to suck…

The thing that sucks about teaching (I am married to a teacher) is that it is assumed you will work for free. And they do. They are contracted for a specific number of hours per year, but everyone knows that the number of hours are insufficient for prep, professional development and instruction time. So they work a…

Fuck I miss Splinter.

Camille Paglia

Daryl Morey, notedly averse to information

So a 45 year old dude in the front office had a 27 year old member of the team paying for drugs which he muled for the two. What is the over/under on employees in the Angels organization who knew this or heard rumors of this? 30? 40? 

You win.

one who’d like to preserve the perception of themselves as brave truth-tellers, but would prefer not actually having to engage in any of that risky truth-telling business.

I disagree with a lot of what you are saying here. I do wish that Kerr said more, but you can’t just jump from “he didn’t say what I wanted him to say about this issue” to “stick to sportzzzz!”

“I’m always super surprised by people married to predators who don’t seem to realize it. How much interalized misogyny must someone have before they accept some behaviour is beyond the pale.”

She originally filed for divorce in 2006 and accused him of “cruel and inhumane” treatment in the divorce papers. She also said he exhibited “extreme anger and hostility” toward her.

I agree with you (and Scocca) and I think it’s important to continue hammering the point that the NBA absolutely can and should pull out of China. But I also think it’s instructive to understand why it likely won’t: Because Silver, for all that he poses himself as the benign neoliberal CEO of the league, is actually…

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.

Gladwell: It’s just dumb to assume people who are really good at one thing can know anything about another subject. Anyway, buy my new book “I Know Everything,” available wherever books are sold.

I’ve often maintained that both him and Steven Pinker intentionally maintain their ludicrous hairstyles because it’s all part of their cosplaying as an intellectual, and they’re both so dumb to think that “well, Einstein had crazy hair, so obviously crazy hair is necessary to be a genius!” It’s like when Rick Perry…

The Paterno/McQueary conversation as it plays out in the fevered imaginations of Gladwell, Jenkins, et al:

Simmons: Right.

This is not the “Western Conference Finals.” There are, in fact, no conference finals in the WNBA; all eight postseason teams enter the bracket together, seeded from 1 to 8.

This was a softball that any competent candidate would have knocked out of the park and yet Biden demonstrated just how incapable he is of even remembering to say the right things when it matters. Whether it’s on healthcare or climate change, Biden at best sounds like he is exhausted and at worst like diet Trump.