I guess if I was about to turn 50 and my favorite team hadn’t won anything since I was taking my bologna sandwich and astronaut ice cream to elementary school in a brand new Scooby-Doo lunch box I might turn into a reprehensible yelling clown glommed onto by internet content dispersal mechanisms.

Eat, sleep, train.

Best Kotaku article I’ve ever read, along with a valuable life lesson.

The 3 most important words in this piece: “completely privately funded”.

But the thing is, if you’re not a Golden State Warriors fan—or, hell, even if you are one—and you claim that the blowout part of last night’s game held your attention as closely as the first half did, you’re lying.

Just out of curiosity what is K-State and/or Snyder’s record of pulling, or not renewing, scholarships between seasons because the player isn’t playing well, or was injured, the coach wanted to make room for a bigger-better-player, or for no reason whatsoever? Put another way, does he and K-State show the same loyalty…

Bingo. It’s a shitty ballpark. Citifield is MUCH nicer.

I believe the contention here is not that the system is good or bad per se, but that the current commander in chief doesn’t have a clue about what he is talking about, and to make such remarks off the cuff is disingenuous at best.  Furthermore, saying that the new system costs a lot and that you are not going to use…

But to be fair, the other article was criticizing the sinkability of the carrier, not how the planes were launched.

I’m not an expert on aircraft carrier catapult systems, so I’m not in a position to make any judgments on the merits of steam vs EMALS (e-mails?).

But the EMALS!

Isn’t that the whole point of democracy, if your boss is acting like a tool?

Setting my alarm for 530AM to get the full 4.5 hours of Kirk and Callahan on WEEI with the HOTTEST TAKES. It’s going to be great. You’ll get Sully from Carver with his “I have a black friend” take. You’ll get Ben from Manchester who once sat in the out field in Fenway in the 1980s and NEVER HEARD A RACIST COMMENT, so…

Hosting the Cup in the US is an easy win on the schedule for a FIFA organization that has been on a losing streak. It will make the organization the most money of any bid, the amount of corruption involved will be relatively low, and it will give the sport a promotional boost in the most fertile ground for growth. …

So the two guys holding the towel clearly just held it taught enough so Cormier could push down on it with exactly 1.2 pounds of pressure without it giving. How is that a legal weigh in?