“You’re going to lunge desperately at the ballcarrier, and maybe you get a shoulderpad right on his hip, wrap arms around his legs, he tips backward, and your coach replays it again and again in film to show the team “Look, THIS is how it’s done!” Or maybe your helmet plows straight into his helmet, you get spun…

Billy,

“As a Dungeon Master and someone who covers Dungeons & Dragons professionally”

I work for the pun department at local company x.  We’re sending you a contract. 

I hear consistency is a good thing.

I’ll meet you half-way. You aren’t wrong. However, folks will just view you through the lens of someone who is heartless (which, I’d wager you are not) and insensitive (which I’d also wager, on a day to day basis, you are also not).

NO! NO ENHANCE!  NEVER EVER ENHANCE AGAIN.

Wasn’t Kelly supposed to be “one of the grown-ups in the room” to keep the world from blowing up?

So let’s say I meet my friends at the local Pokemon Gym and I’ve got Gyarados ready to battle. Assuming it needs to be in water, wouldn’t it just kind of flop around and die? I guess that’s my fault for bringing the wrong animal to the event.

you mailed that joke in.

Great article. One of my favorite things about chess are actually how people write about it. The first half of this piece reminds me of the boxing articles of yesteryear where folks did their best to create the “feeling” of the match through poetic words and clever phrasing.

As a father of two daughters, this stuff enrages me to know that as I type this, there are kids who are trapped. One of my colleagues is a social worker who had done mental health work with women who ended up as sex-workers. The way she describes the fall-out (emotionally, physically, mentally) of being stuck in…

Maybe it’s not the day itself, but Wisconsin in Late October.

as you get older, a touch of gray makes you look sophisticated! :)

I heard/read that too. Maybe on an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast? I can’t recall.

Top Youth Soccer Recruits for Trump? As a former soccer play and general fan of the sport, this is the sticker that annoys me the most. There’s stuff on there at that bothers me more; but JFC, who is he recruiting? I can only hope that parents don’t let kids near this Murdervan.

Always Look. I want to watch what is happening. Not looking leads to a surprise shock of pain. When I look, there are no surprises.

Recommended Reading Prior to Entering an Ikea:

The loss of dreadlocks or the modern take on the barbed wire tattoos?

Until this moment, I hadn’t considered the positives of devastating climate change; your point is well received.