Most men are absolutely worthless, unless you need to kill a bear or carry your heavy shit.

In terms of rec sports where the whole point is to have fun, and often get as drunk as possible, take a chill pill weekend warrior.

I think the co-ed leagues are to foster dating or meeting people, but these leagues should be avoided by anyone who is competitive. They are for getting drunk and hanging out. If you want to compete stay in your own gendered leagues.

Couldn’t that question be turned right around on you? Why do you give a shit whether this guy wants to play in a competitive league where his teammates and opponents are also trying to compete?

Quinn quit playing after three seasons of playing in an “open gender” basketball league (where both genders can play, but there are no requirements for getting women into the game). Quinn and her co-captain Giobbi got sick of being on the only team in the league that consistently played women. “I didn’t like that the…

Because you’re obtusely missing the point--these outlets were not sustainable as constituted, so if it wasn’t Tronc or Thiel or whatever, it would have just been something else. 

The culling of perfectly reasonable dissenting opinions from even the grays is how you know Drew and co. have finally seen the light and decided to commit to honest, good-faith debate rather than snarky tribalism. 

I’ll never forget the time Drew went on an anti-gun screed in which he implored police to divert their attention from stop-and-frisk to confiscating guns, completely oblivious to stop-and-frisk’s origin as an anti-gun tactic.

My fiancee basically never uses a knife larger than our paring knives, because the slicer and santoku scare the shit out of her. Watching her try to prep meals can be agonizing sometimes, especially when I’m already hungry.

Because the Lerners probably figured if they’re going to flame out in the NLDS anyway, there’s no reason to pay for quality management.

Thank god they got rid of Dusty for a rookie manager who was totally qualified to handle a veteran team with lots of egos!

Space is more conceptually terrifying, because it could end us in innumerable, unimaginable ways without warning.

Just another data point in favor of my idiosyncratic hobby horse: pro sports with salary caps should have a mandatory gross-up mechanism in their CBAs that guarantees the player the same take-home pay irrespective of local tax code. 

Assuming proper federal jurisdiction, the defendant in a state action has the right to remove it to federal court. So, if the victims sued in Nevada state court and there’s valid federal jurisdiction, MGM could say “we want this to be in federal court” and the victims couldn’t do anything about it.

Last I checked none of the owners were trying to tell any of their employees how they could spend their time off the clock.

On the flip side, giving the ref discretion of when to call time allows the pressing team to play out their final possession, rather than having it end prematurely due to a buzzer. That’s not necessarily better or worse than the precision of a game clock, but it does have its own interesting value. 

Was just skimming through to see if someone had beaten me to this point. Alas, not everyone is so blinded by disdain for the toddler-in-chief as to lose the ability to critique a bad argument. 

It’s the Hall of Fame, and not the Hall of Infamy. 

FS1 and NatGeo may broadcast to audiences outside of Russia, but they still presumably needed certain permissions from Russian authorities to film the segment (and will continue to need to interact with Russian authorities for the balance of the World Cup).

At the outdoor viewing party outside the arena, they turned off some of the screens and all of the speakers after the conclusion of the game; because of where I was standing, I had to watch the presentation of the Cup on a different screen more than a block away, through a massive crowd of revelers, without sound.