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I'm not necessarily proposing some sort of a violent seizure of all guns, but at the very least, further proliferation of guns can be limited. I often think about this gun issue the way we've seen the tobacco over the past 60 years or so. It's a public health issue. People are dying...

That's a cop out, though. Mental health issues and availability of guns are not related. It's not like Canada or the UK have amazing mental health support systems or no wealth gap. You gotta think that the fact that the US is absolutely awash in guns is a significant factor in much, much...

I was a couple of weeks short of my 16th birthday when the Columbine school shooting happened. It was an important event during my formative years. I remember all the hand-wringing and blame-seeking by seemingly everyone in the society. I remember spending the next day at school not actually...

Remember that any kind of security system like that is one step behind the people trying to break it. I did not realized that one had to pay for video games(on a PC, to be clear) until I was 12. My father stole Dish Network for almost a decade(in Canada, no less). Once a security system is...

But this isn't how the market works at all. Nor did the government create the initial issue. For one, the market may not simply drive wages up, but rather force those companies to leave. In a globalized economy, those factories and plants don't need to be in Springfield. They don't even...

Because of who and what they vote for. And because of what you can see happening all around you, including in Springfield. Look at who won the county, and all those surrounding rural counties in 2020. There was no conspiracy to bring thousands of Haitians to Springfield, Ohio. There was no...

Who said anything about retired? And you seriously need me to go google examples of Trump promising to revive manufacturing, mining, etc? Come on, let's not insult each other's intelligence here. You know exactly what I'm talking about. You may not agree, but you know I'm not talking about...

They don't want the jobs in question. Minimum wage in Ohio is $10.45. I'd be hard pressed to believe that any of the jobs Haitians are currently holding pay much more than that. Look, we can discuss supply and demand and the question of how high minimum wage can be and all those other...

Except those people don't want to work these jobs. They all want magical, fantasy factory and mining jobs from 50 years ago.

Big freaking deal. I went from 200 pounds 7 years ago to 250 earlier this year. Wasn't even that hard.

It's even funnier when the whole thing is translated to Canadian politics. We did not use to have debates because our system is very different. Our head of state is technically an inbred old guy in England and his representative here is appointed. The prime minister is simply the leader of...

Isn't is silly when you think about how so much of a political campaign today is just pointless fluff with no real connection to what a politician is supposed to do? It's all just become a reality show of sorts, which perhaps explains to some degree Trump's success. There are debates like...

But this isn't a feature of a two-party system, this is a feature of electing the head of state directly. And yes, I know, electoral college and all that, but the president of the US is elected more directly than say the president of Germany or Israel, who is simply voted on by their respective...

More like useful idiot, but we're kind of splitting hairs here.

In before the "peace at any cost" crowd.

What really bothers me about this is that context get lost so easily. Hayward was easily a max player in 2017, but we're talking about 2014 here. He did not have a very good season, though I supposed the team as a whole had a bad season. The Jazz won 25 games. If you look at advanced...

I don't think anyone's holding a gun to his head. Also, does this policy include Kirk Snyder?

It is possible for both the Jazz to have been foolish and for Hayward to have been an idiot. And of course he's pivoting now that he's retired and looking for a "home," so to speak. Where else might fans remember him a 5-10 years from now but in SLC?

Throw in a plane crash in which every member of the Lakers team dies(you know, so they can make a movie years later) and I'll need tissues.

I grew up in Zagreb, Croatia back when it was the clear-cut second best country at basketball in the world. Obviously a fan of my hometown Cibona when I was a wee boy. By the time I was 12, I used to take a tram across the city with a couple of friends every other Thursday night to watch...