Fall is superior to Summer in every possible category. weather, sports, beer, foliage, etc....

As much as I like Firestone in general, I'm not sure how excited I am for a hoppy Marzen. Part of the reason I like the fall beer season is that it's a break from the year-round bitterfest.

Just sent in another question, for Roger Goodell specifically:

pumpkin beer sucks and is gross. I hope this fad dies quick

Burn your sources. They used you to smear the victim of a violent assault. SET THEM ON FIRE.

Elvis Andrus has a new mission.

Diesels in North America will have to wait though.

When police feel justified in using deadly force it's often said that they "feared for their lives". My understanding of good police training means that in stressful, dangerous situations THEY are the ones with the cool heads and retain the ability to think clearly.

"I bet you'd love a bounce on her falsies" is so quintessentially British, it conquered the world and then fell apart.

It *should* be a non story because people really shouldn't care if a player is gay. But it's still news. Eventually when more of these guys come out and nothing ends up happening these will be non stories. This is part of that process.

You can probably count on your hands the number of "out" male athletes in major team sports. This story does not sensationalize or "tabloidize" Sarafin's gayness. But you can't pretend it's not notable just because you want it to not be notable now rather than 5 years from now. It is notable.

And that they have a biomedical engineering program.

Ok, lets just get it out of the way.... the news here isn't that Sarafin's gay, it's that someone at ASU is pursuing a Master's Degree.

There's actually a method to the way GRRM chooses his POV characters - we never get a POV scene from someone on the throne or with ruling power (so no Robert, Joffrey, Tommen, etc.) or from someone who is more of a plotter/schemer than a pawn (hence why we don't see chapters from Littlefinger , Varys, or Tywin, among…