“The longer this continues, the greater the chances that measles will again get a foothold in the United States.”

It’s extremely difficult to provide comprehensive protection from this kind of trolling. Even if you match “nigger” and “nigga” and all the capital/lowercase variations thereof, there are still tons of ways to trick them: “niggger”, “NIGG€R”, “Nıgger” (using Turkish dotless i), etc. How would you even identify…

1. New York means less to players because New York Teams aren’t very good these days, with the exception of the MLS Red Bulls and maybe the Yankees, and celebrity there has shifted somewhat away from athletes. The draw to New York wasn’t just that it was the biggest city, but also because meant the biggest stage, the…

How long can a club not pay a player before that player’s contract is deemed severed due to non-performance? If players aren’t getting paid, at some point they ought to be entitled to leave and sign new contracts elsewhere - representing not just a free transfer for the players, but loss of those contracts would also…

With the Fyre debacle and now this, can we say finally say festivals have peaked and are on the downswing? If the influencers and rich trend followers all get obsessed with some new thing, maybe festivals can go back to being about music again. 

Everyone won’t be an influencer, because I never will be.

Sucking.

Retrofitting airplanes with new anything is very expensive. Even if you don’t have a videoconferencing feature or service available now, if necessary communication setup gets straightened out in the nearish future, it’s a huge win if you just have to flip a switch to roll it out across your fleet overnight. Look at…

They’re still very funny regardless, but the rabidly obsessive fanbase that wrote zines and went around quoting everything existed pretty much only the UK. For a long time I think the consensus in Britain was even that Fawlty Towers was a better series, which I don’t think any American fan would agree to.

Yeah, but even with Godzilla there’s a reason he happens, a cause and effect relationship. We don’t get any of that with him, no understanding of why or why now or what any of the prophecies have to do with anything.

The Night King’s theme honestly just felt like an echo of The Light of the Seven. 

I think you hit the nail on the head. Yes it’s arch and ironic, but it’s also an artist (in fact, an ensemble of them) doing something they’re jazzed about and I think that’s what makes the difference between good popular culture and dreck. Weird Al is a similar example.

Remember that time when a classic film franchise was rebooted and the result was actually good? No? Me neither.

The only thing I don’t like about the dramatic reboot is the repeated portrayal of Carlton as trying to be white. It’s thematically unnecessary and doesn’t really give him much in the way of dramatic motivation. A better idea is that he’s cut off from mainstream black cultural identifiers and is mostly concerned with…

That’s a really good response to a really, really stupid question. 

I’ve never made the cut to get on Jeopardy, but I’ve concluded that if you aren’t confident enough to make it a true Daily Double every time, you’ve picked the wrong category. 

Who gives a shit? 

Not every Mormon is a joyless creep. A great many, possibly the majority, are pretty normal people.

Did Gettleman forget he was picking for his own Giants, and not Kliff Kingsbury’s Kardinals?

So is there a guy at the Cardinals headquarters whose full-time job is to photoshop up graphics like that at all hours of the day or night? Or is there just ready made template for “inspirational coach’s quotes” that a hapless social media intern just has to generate?