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Given that you've implicitly called your critics here (metaphorically) "dogs' and "swine" who are "unappreciative" and "uncaring," by what principle would you expect, in turn, that these dogs and swine treat you and your ideas with respect? A regular annoyance for me is the implicit or explicit...

Ah, Stephen Miller, Exhibit #1 of the kakistocracy being installed under the #Trumpsterfire Administration.

The term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has been hi-jacked by the Right, previously used to explain the Right's hysterical, irrational frothing at the mouth about Hillary or Obama. The irony was when my Teabagger brother threw this term at me; the same guy who spent each day during the 8 years of...

From a purely strategic perspective, I wish the Squad (and Bernie) would STFU and play the long game. True, the Republicans would find some other boogeyman to give them night terrors, but why hand them something that so clearly resonates and which can be co-branded as the Right's ultimate...

AOC and the rest of the "squad" are legislative backbenchers who, albeit outspoken, have relatively little influence within the party. Nonetheless, they have become the new boogeymen who hide under Republicans' beds and go bump in the night. Given that the Republican message is largely fear...

I'll never forget a few years ago when the Jazz were eliminated from playoffs by the depleted Clippers team when Crawford went crazy and Green made one (or more?) crucial threes down the stretch to finish the Jazz's playoff hopes. He's capable of good play, and in a limited role, may be a good fit.

Just popping in to say that IF you can get Harris, but it requires letting Favors go, this is an absolute no brainer. You do this. Favors is a center, and paying what we're paying him for a primarily back up center is too much, particularly when there are any number of replacement level...

It's almost as if there's some large clamor for the Jazz FO to do something, but once it does, clamor for action transforms into whining about the cost. As if accomplishing any significant upgrade to the roster was NOT going to cost some combination of money, players, and draft picks. And...

You and others are overvaluing picks in the 20s, which is what they're likely to be. Besides, if we want to get into the draft at the 20s, there are ways of doing it (see Gobert). Giving up two picks of players with less than 25% chance of becoming a rotation player for someone who is possibly...

Agreed, mostly. Grayson may have been good but never anything more than decent rotation player and certainly expendable. I'll miss Jae but not his 3 point chucking. He was Rodney Hood lite, shot us into games and shot us out of other games. Didn't rebound much, didn't go to the hoop much, and...

I'm not saying this as a Jazz homer, but as someone who has a deep and abiding lack of respect for Stephen A. and virtually every nonsensical, poorly reasoned, and bombastic utterance that comes (always loudly) out of his mouth. Who the f*** cares what he says? Stephen A (and his partner in hot...

It wouldn't surprise me, the movement is full of unmitigated kooks, but I would suspect even there it's among the fringe and not representative of the mainstream. Could be wrong, though.

This is what we've come to, the Iranian Mullahs are more credible sources of information than POTUS, a man who lies as easily and nearly as frequently as most of us breath.

Elements in the Republican Party have long had a hard on for going to war with Iran. Think the Iraq war but with a larger, richer, better equipped country with a larger and better trained army. Then there's the morons like Senator Cotton who publicly state that winning a war with Iran would...

THIS (Drake) is the burr up my behind on this issue. Why is Drake allowed to get away with behavior that no other fan would? Because he's a celebrity, that's why. Celebrities enjoy enormous privileges not afforded to other people, and while I understand why that occurs (humans have always been...

Well said. You are correct, requiring "extra-ordinary" evidence is perhaps overstating it as a general rule. It does depend, however, on what constitutes "extra-ordinary." For example, does requiring a p-value of .01, with 95% confidence level constitute 'extra-ordinary' evidence? If not...

One doesn't have to be an authority on anything, per se, to render sound advice. Still, if I HAD to judge who between Bill Nye and you to trust on the basis on acquired knowledge and insightfulness, it wouldn't be you. The advice that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is...

Just watched Trainspotting sequel (T2). Great movie, not as good as original, but I still liked it a lot. Like the original, it had a great soundtrack. I especially liked the song "Silk" by Wolf Alice:

I don't get why the hell we'd want to replace a non-floor spacer with another worse non-floor spacer who essentially duplicates Gobert's skill set?