The racism is assuming that white receivers are slow just because they are white. The Patriots have drafted and played black receivers every year, and have had more black receivers than white receivers on the squad every year. White WRs are good value because so many coaches seem to think, durr, white kid, too slow to…

Probably because of Kap’s light skin and straight hair. He looks Middle Eastern, not African.

For better or worse, Van Halen II, Cheap Trick Live at Budokan, Rust Never Sleeps, and (especially) Highway to Hell are still more popular than all those great 1979 post-punk albums put together. Not to mention Get the Knack, which seems to refuse to die. And Regatta de Blanc and Candy-O are also “rock” albums, if you…

“the dumbest citizens”? Au contraire, les gens qui ne parlent pas anglais sont souvent plus intelligents et plus intéressants que les Québécois déracineés.

Week 5 will be Bill Burr.

Yup, that was my impression. Definitely sounds slurred.

You must be American. Yes, the CL works differently than the US system, but it is still a “playoff”, and on the continent the Cup is generally more prestigious than winning your league. The EPL has grown so big that it is kind of different, but certainly Bayern München’s main goal every year is winning the CL, and to…

No, the CL is very literally a “play off”. It is an elimination tournament to pick the Champion of the various UEFA leagues, just as the NFL playoffs pick a champion from the winners of the various divisions. The Champions League is simply on a very different scale, and probably less meaningful. Is winning the Premier…

They do have a playoff, it’s called “Champions League”.

Very happy for Cleveland. Maybe in the future they can afford a decent announcing team. Who are those clowns? I would have expected a little more excitement and verbal flair after a 52 year drought and a 3 game comeback against a “historically great” basketball team. Maybe fly Al Michaels in just in case, Chicago.

Wine was widely consumed in Al-Andalus, as it was for centuries for centuries in Islamic Persia . It is actually debatable whether the Quran really prohibits alcohol, and it took many centuries for societies that converted to Islam to go dry. The cultural decline of the Middle East correlates pretty well with their…

Setting aside the fact that Putin is still worse than Trump’s worst is likely to be, and no one is proposing taking the Cup from Russia, what does Gulati think making threats accomplishes? I assume the number of dedicated US soccer fans planning to vote for Trump would barely fill a mini-van, and most Trump fans…

Those annoying helicopter parents weren’t millenials, they were boomers/early gen X-ers. More or less Hillary’s generation. That’s who we are voting against.

Yes.

Yes, the DC flag was everywhere when I lived there. Very noticeable.

Yes, a Joel death would be horrible. He is young enough that it would feel unexpected, like Prince, and he has solid fan bases among boomers and Gen-Xers. I would have to avoid social media and the news for a month if he dies.

But who would care?

Tatoos correlate pretty well with poor judgement and poor impulse control.