In rich western countries, people have this idea that stray dogs are all cute little pups just waiting to be adopted into a loving home. In poorer countries, stray dogs are basically packs of urban wolves that prey on pets, livestock, and often humans (especially kids). Last month packs of wild dogs killed six…

As long as he gets on outside the 3 point line, yeah.

I’m in the process of moving away from the the city I love, the first place I ever felt at home, to be with the love of my life, and I feel good about it. It took a while - even a year ago I would have had my doubts, and before that I would’ve dropped the relationship like a particularly heavy hot potato rather than…

This is good. The “mystique” of the Triple Crown meant that was all anyone cared was whether or not a particular horse would get the Triple. Even before the Kentucky Derby all the commentators can talk about is who’s a contender to win the Belmont. Maybe now we’ll actually be able to talk about racing having every…

Why do you bother embedding YouTube videos that don’t allow themselves to be played in embedded pages?

Lame Duck? What on Earth gives you the idea that the Democrats are going to get their act together enough to unseat him?

Nah. Midrange teams (and that includes Belgium, FIFA rankings are shit) have to get lucky every time just to stay in the tournament, top tier teams only have to not get unlucky.

There’s nothing wrong with using PEDs, it’s getting caught with them that’s a problem.

America’s true pasttime is dumb arguments about baseball.

Biometrics are easy to fake and almost impossible to change (hi-res photos can be used to create fake irises to fool iris scanners, any fingerprint you leave can be used to fool fingerprint scanners, etc), which make them terrible replacements for passwords.

It’s a story because the kinds of people who do technology journalism don’t generally ask critical questions about about tech PR stunts like this, for two reasons: firstly, headlines about this stuff attract attention, whether or not the underlying technology backs up the claims made by the researchers/startup…

What if Durant and LeBron go to the same city? Someplace like Brooklyn or Memphis as a logical conclusion to the Decision, with the idea that the two of them could turn any team into a powerhouse.

If Suarez shows up and plays, they have a fighting chance of getting out of the group, but I don’t see it happening. Opposing teams know he can be baited into getting sent off, and without him Uruguay is hopeless.

“buckets” “layup”

That would require the Gestapo Immigration and Customs Enforcement to admit they had made a mistake, which they will never do.

People want the justice system to justify their sense of self-righteousness: “I would never do this, so anyone who would is a monster.” At its heart the left’s crusades against sexual misconduct and guns aren’t any different from the right’s crusades against abortions and drugs, the only difference is the people who…

Since he was fired I’ve gone back and forth a hundred times on whether Klinsmann actually sucked, the players hated him and goldbricked so he’d get canned, or the team just sucked beyond any hope of redemption. Could be all three, I guess.

20 years—five whole World Cups

Marchman seems like he’d be the kind of guy whose mouth writes checks his ass can’t cash all the time.

What kind of a freak bathes and then stands on their piss-mat?