

As my wife is fond of saying, professional sports has far too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.
Not always true, I’m sure, but not always far from the truth.


As my wife is fond of saying, professional sports has far too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.
Not always true, I’m sure, but not always far from the truth.


I think they meant that they used WWII-era bombers, even though the design and tests were done after the war ended.
You may want to check your sources on that. If I remember correctly, his mother knew someone on the board, through her work with the United Way.


I’d have said the Evangelical base wouldn’t appreciate him having sex with porn stars either, but here we are


But he did say something like, “after I sold my restaurants to a corporation, the chicken tastes like shit”.


Given that she, and her entire band, have been proven to use recorded tracks instead of performing live at their concerts, I don’t see that this is a big departure.
I probably played Max Payne 2 from start to finish three or four times. It’s superb.


I wonder if there are some people on the American right who actually see it as a kind of Darwinian cleansing of their society.
They want to get rid of the week, the elderly, and the stupid, and this is a way for those people to self-select for extermination.
Of course there will be some collateral damage, but those who know better can protect themselves. You think that Trump and those around him don’t have every vaccination that you’ve ever heard of, and probably some that you haven’t?


Yes. That was a quick close of the web browser for me.


I don’t know if you have a website, but my $5/month shared web host allows me to set up a git server, and I think many of them are similar.


That’s discriminatory! Actually it’s because they have dark skin. As a native South african, Musk knows this. Fortunately, he was able to immigrate in 1988 before things went bad. You silly


I love the idea of giving Obama a second Nobel Peace prize, just to piss Trump off.


The former president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) had a Concorde-capable airport built at his home village, so that his wife could charter it to go shopping in Europe.
The CIA assassinated his predecessor and put him in power so that he would do their bidding and that of the American mining companies. It’s estimated that he was worth around $6 billion, $30-40 billion in today’s money.
Out in the wild, the vast majority of animals are eaten alive.


Sadly, I’m pretty sure that the last Peter Sellers movie released was “The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu”.
Being There was brilliant, though.


This makes me think of Inform, which compiles English sentences into interactive fiction.


Batman was a very good movie, but done in an extremely cartoony way. Nicholson’s Joker was fantastic, but goofy. The X-Men took great pains to ground Magneto in the Holocaust.


When I saw it, I felt it was the first time that a superhero movie took itself seriously enough to have a good actors, a good script, and good effects. It put what had been in my head up on the screen, and in a way surpassed it.


The blurb for the VIP section says:
The windows are slightly tinted to enhance your privacy and create a more intimate atmosphere for you and your party.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that they were inviting people to have sex as they go around.
You might want to look at something like Drupal as an alternative to WordPress. Drupal tends toward a lot more open source for its plugins (which they call modules). As a developer myself, I also find it better engineered than WordPress, although maybe that’s just because I used Drupal more.