Whats strange about soccer: It employs absurd mathematical precision to police offsides, a rule that mostly matters in spirit rather than in strict application. (You just don't want cherrypicking) But its extremely casual about timekeeping, whose literal application matters a ton
Yes we cheat, yes the refs only call fouls for Shai and nobody else. Yes we play football on defense. Yes Dort is trying to injure your star. What are you going to do about it?
As the clock runs out on 2025, it's time for my 6th annual "What I Read This Year."
52 books, in no order until my top 10 at the end.
Send your recs for 2026, and Happy New Year!
"hey man I know you're worried the trucking company might lay you off soon and you're behind on the mortgage, but Kalshi is offering 3 to 1 on 46,000+ trucker layoffs in Q1 so you might want to hedge that risk out"
I know we joke about stuff being incomprehensible to the European mind but 105,000 people giving a standing ovation to a 90-year-old man in a tuxedo after he puts on a mascot head is probably really hard for them to understand.
It's even worse than that. The 89 year old Caro has written 4 books in his series about LBJ totaling over 3000 pages. First book was completed in 1982.
Book 4 (2012) ends with.... Johnson being sworn in on Air Force One in 1963. Give us book 5 before the clock runs out!!
@Three_Cone Cone, where are you in the city? Fellow Thunder fan down in Tribeca. Let's get something going for western conference finals upon your triumphant return from G7