Recent content by superrific

Yeah. What do you do when you need agents between your in-between guys and the public. Maybe he thinks he is talking about riot control when actually he's just talking about agents being assholes. It's like a Simpsons episode, all the time with these fuckers. Even Homer would realize how...

You didn't fail. There's no "right way" as you are using the term. You are telling someone, "I prefer someone else to you." There's no getting around that message, no way of saying it that will make it innocuous. She has no right to expect you to live in an odd semi-relationship state...

If she didn't want to get married, then she doesn't get to complain about wasting those years.

That new map is a calamity. We need to do a lot of things in 2028 to mitigate the effects. For one thing outlaw gerrymandering. Of course I'm advocating more radical structural change, but at a minimum we need to fix supreme court and gerrymandering.

What happened? I don't need to watch something "hard to watch" today

I suggest that many fans would have been turned off a few years ago. Would they still be turned off now that the players are pros? I would say the emotional bond between institution/team and fans has already taken a huge haircut.

OK. Didn't know that. I associate the name Bremmer with the movie Trainspotting. I knew they weren't the same person but it's what would come to mind.

Good point. There are other examples of what I'm talking about but yes, far afield.

Not a divorce, but maybe they could live separately. What would be lost if UNC basketball was divested into an LLC? It would retain all the intellectual property -- i.e. uniforms, logos, history -- and facilities (lease or ownership, I don't know), but the players wouldn't have to be students...

I think of that strategy as more like hedging than betting. It's like buying oil company stocks if you have a long commute. I've owned stock in Pepsi and its various corporate owners for a long time. I drink lots of Pepsi. So if Pepsi raises prices, then my stock goes up and that compensates...

I guess that's a difference between us. Your position is, I think, more common than mine. I don't believe too much in dirty money. A little, but not that much. Not enough for this hedging strategy to make me feel bad. It's a standard Hollywood trope for the hero to be offered money in order...

pretty sure we do not have attack plans for the Maldives.

The best win-win is to bet against UNC when we are the favorites. Three possible outcomes: we win the game by the spread (and you're happy); we lose the game (and you gain some $$); and we win the game by less than the spread, in which case you make money and get happy. My ex-wife complained...

This is weak. There's no bright line between first and second round in terms of player ability or pro prospects. So you're drawing an artificial line AND relying on a data outlier -- which is what I would expect from Zen or the bumblebee but not you. The obvious takeaway here is that Duke and...

Church groups who volunteer do not necessarily lean right. My wife's liberal churches do a lot of community events and assistance for the needy. The evangelical churches, not so much. That's an anecdote and not data, but when you look at the content of the services between the churches, when...