No. Baseball is better when the Red Sox and Cubs are bad (i.e. most of the 20th century). The NBA is better when LeBron is in the playoffs, regardless of team, and college football was good when Notre Dame was good simply because when the money and under the table payments were slightly less and mid range teams could…

Nimrod is Hebrew and Shmul is Yiddish, so I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s probably not all that uncommon.

Oh they complain about it all the damn time. Undermining public primary and secondary education is like #3 on the GOP priority list. And it’s the one their likely to get the most success with (see: NCLB, vouchers, charter schools) because if there’s one thing radical centrist white suburban families can get behind,…

The target audience for porn is skewed like the target audience for many other things (big budget video games, fashion, etc), by the fact that a relatively small number of really obsessive people spend an outsized proportion of time and money on it, so the overwhelming majority of what’s produced caters to their…

This study doesn’t say anything about diet drinks, because they don’t contain sugar.

All I find myself concluding from this is that the admissions incidents at these schools were not one-off incidents or a single bad actor working unbeknownst to the university at large. The fact that a journalism instructor feels free to disregard professional ethics when it concerns his paycheck, and no one else on…

They use GMG’s copy editors now.

I used to think that way, too - he’d had a fucked up childhood, grew up too fast in all the wrong ways, and didn’t realize the enormity of what he was doing. But, over time, more details have emerged and I’ve seen more cases of abuse, it’s clear to me that this perspective, too, was something he cultivated as part of…

No, but having seen some archival BBC footage from the 60s and early 70s, it’s not easy to differentiate from Monty Python. One “man in the street” segments I saw featured a guy going on at length about how people complaining about not having enough food ought to just shut their mouths and drink more tea instead of…

The bubble is already here and has been around a while. People don’t realize how much teams in the Premier League, Champions League, and NBA are subsidized by overseas fans, especially in Asia. When their interest drops off or shifts, you’re going to see a major contraction.

So this builds into my theory of humor that the best satire is satire where you aren’t familiar with what’s being satirized. A lot of shots in Airplane that are iconically hilarious are simply mockery of specific shots in Zero Hour, and the movie is unfortunately a little less absurd when you know this. It’s the same…

I wonder if this, and not cost, is the reason for switching Pyrex to lime-soda glass. Someone figured there was potential for a lot of nasty lawsuits from people cutting themselves on large, sharp borosilicate glass shards.

I mean, the media at large is also hugely responsible, because they turned the investigation into a circus. I remember a similar situation a few years prior with the OJ Simpson trial: it occupied such a huge proportion of daily reporting for an extended period of time that there was practically nothing else in the…

Public shaming is fine as long it’s people we don’t like!

Reminds me of West Side Story.

Johnny (Sucks At) Football

What’s that? Alec Guinness in Star Wars?

Fox Sports headline: “Black Man Caught Laying Back & Drinking on the Job”

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Glad to see Ponce de Leon has at least found the Fountain of Bad Strike Calls