Whataburger is better than In-N-Out. Fight me.

These stories never end. It’s like as soon as Diana wraps up some excellent reporting on one sports assault/abuse case or trial, another one pops up to take up another couple months of in depth reporting. It must be exhausting.

Arrested Development is still the best title of all time to me. It has a hundred different meanings that tie into the show.

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OF COURSE ZEKE ELLIOTT’S FATHER WAS THERE!

But does Silver call him Kush?

The comparison doesn’t work though. Personal greatness doesn’t amount to as many wins in baseball as it does in basketball. For Jordan, that would never happen. In baseball, one guy doesn’t generate as many wins no matter how great. Barry Bonds never won a World Series, for instance.

No one is near as good as Mike Trout because Mike Trout is probably the best baseball player ever.

What a fucking hippie.

But that’s the point of what we’re saying. If you’re rich, you can afford to eat the best food, hire professionals who will dress you if you have bad taste, etc. What makes these rich people not give a shit about quality? It’s consistent across a whole bunch of aspects of their lives that they get shitty shit.

Those two fit together perfectly.

Absolutely. I think that’s probably the best possible example.

I didn’t realize Andrew Sullivan was still a thing. I’ve been blissfully ignorant of him for a few years now.

It totally could be. I usually favor stupidity. You may think Paul Manafort is smart enough to organize his life to show contempt for poor and middle class people. I tend to think more that he’s just a tacky fucking idiot. And that most obscenely rich people are also tacky fucking idiots. Their contempt for anyone…

Oh yeah. Now we’re talking.

You could definitely replace Chipper with a more “guy” guy. I’m thinking maybe Joe Randa or Jeff Cirillo, you know?

“Another thing that’s not at all cool? How fast a cheetah can run. I mean, you get around it and you just can’t get away. It’ll run down you down in a speeding car at 3/4 speed and still have the energy to rip you to shreds with its knife-life claws and teeth. Really puts a cramp in your poaching game.”

It’s an extension of what Anthony Bourdain talks about in one of his memoirs. Being rich doesn’t make you an arbiter of style. He talks about rich people eating in obscenely expensive restaurants that serve horrible food. Overcooked everything for hundreds of dollars a plate. It’s not about quality, it’s about running…

I really liked the movie a whole lot. I’m really into weird, surreal scifi though. I thought it did a great job of creating visuals that were beautiful and terrifying at the same time. It was a great example of the literal definition of awe-inspiring. But obviously not everyone agrees.

BOO! I thought Annihilation was excellent!