Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets

the knee-jerk nature of so much WNBA discourse really sidelines fans from leveling legitimate criticism at the most gendered disparity in women's sports — the *extreme* lack of bureaucratic aptitude within these front offices and ownership groups

Do we ever actually see any other ships of the Millennium Falcon's class?

it's weird because the implicit frame of "no one asked for this" is that markets transmit information with perfect reliability, and most of the people who say that will deny that markets transmit information well at all in other contexts

I want to see Mike Tomlin build the stadium for each week's Sunday night game in Minecraft

Not really a fan of going down intentionally when you've got a clear path to the end zone and don't actually have the lead yet, that field goal isn't guaranteed.

It's crazy that learning styles, which are basically astrology, are treated as completely legitimate by everyone, including many education professionals

A rule change I'd like to see is that holding by an offensive lineman on a passing play should be a loss of down in addition to the yardage penalty, for basically the same reason that intentional grounding is.

"Kyler Murray gets those Fred Flintstone feet going" is a legendary line

3rd and 33...

TAYLOR IS GONE!

Part of it comes from a very modern internet-era left-wing notion that our only sins are that which we do, not that which we leave undone. Inaction is always morally neutral, which is awfully convenient.

I first knew Bob Uecker from Mr. Belvedere

Damn, not a good week for Indianapolis team front offices.

Some staggeringly daft responses to this one along the lines of "you can't expect everyone to understand convertible notes accounting", when the actual point is "if you don't understand accounting, then why not shut up instead of posting something stupid"

I want the fire department, not the slop department. Horses are alive and have a soul, firetrucks just mimic movement and perform their best guess based on your steering.

“We were out there protesting and then the elections changed things and a lot of the people protesting got seats at the table and began the long process of changing things and then all we were left with is lifelong malcontents whose strategy was protesting & not voting to upend the duopoly.”

There wasn’t enough there there to sustain momentum when the novelty wore off & it got chilly out There are serious police reform activists still plugging away at the problem & we do really need deep reforms to policing; but that requires sustained, boring, thankless work, not chants & vandalism

Really not thrilled that Renee Montgomery is part of the coverage for this game.

I guess this is my main hobby horse by this point, but the “not my job to change any minds” part is consumer thinking or classroom logic, you’re not thinking like a citizen or neighbor, or any way like a member of a body. You being right, someone else being wrong, and waiting on a third to fix it.

Long time coming, but I'm not sure what the point is of firing the GM mid-season.

Does Caleb Williams think John Wick is a real person?

just now realizing the Titans are wearing Oilers throwbacks

Mo' Alie, Mo' Cox.

Terry Bradshaw never ages (interpret that as you will)

'Murica (laudatory)

"You'd Better Sit Down, Kids"

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS

INTERCEPTION

My hot take of the year is that we should implement a reverse progressive tax for for-profit businesses, with the highest tax rates going to petty local small-business tyrants and the lowest to competently, professionally, bureaucratically-managed megacorporations.

If UCI wanted me to care about cyclocross, they'd do it over open country.

Watching NASA press briefings is weird as hell because you've got the WH saying/doing all this deranged and fucked-up and degenerate shit wrt Canada then Jared's up here gushing on and on about how much he loves working with the CSA and how awesome they are and how much cool stuff they're doing.

Historians are the reddit field because every monograph has a several pages where the author very specifically defines a term and acknowledges there's other definitions but says those are irrelevant because if someone cannot engage with you intellectually on those terms they're just a troll

The honor of a front-stabber vs. the depravity of a back-stabber.

"Parents' Rights" is code for legal permission for child abuse. It's really that simple.

Society is in fact justified in making demands on you and placing affirmative obligations on you, even if it's inconvenient or requires sacrifice on your part. I realize you learned something different at the Ron Paul Thatcherite convention, but that was wrong.

College Gameday going to Provo instead of Bloomington when Ohio State @ Indiana could have been an opportunity to bring back Lee Corso as a guest picker is a generational fumble.

Why do I keep thinking this guy is Ken Bowersox?

Give us this day our daily Apollo 13 reference

The flag prints on the warmup sweaters the US athletes are wearing in Chariots of Fire have the wrong number of stars.

The music video is severely underrated and underappreciated as an art form.

There really shouldn't be top-level road cycling in October. The season is too much of a sprawling shit-show as-is. End it with the World Championships like a normal fucking sport.

At a restaurant in Panora, IA on a bike ride. TV showing Des Moines local news. So far it's been an entire ad break of campaign advertisements for Democrats, a local news segment about Caitlin Clark contract rumors, and another ad break entirely of ads for Democratic candidates.