ESPN NBA draft insiders Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo tackle these questions along with what to make of Kentucky's inconsistent freshman class in the latest draft notebook.Is this shaping up to be a relatively
But my favorite demo from which to see “Slow Horses” through is the working class. Slough House consists of a bunch of blue collar workers who’ve been thrown under the bus by the white collar executives above them. Sure, sometimes their demotions are warranted, but that shouldn’t ...
are more liberal than other Americans because a higher proportion possess advanced educational credentials, exhibit a disparity between their levels of education and income, identify as Jewish, non-religious, or non-theologically conservative Protestant, and express greater tolerance for controversial ideas...
I’ll never tell you that the travel life I’m living is so unbelievably amazing that any other lifestyle you choose is just a waste of time, a waste of life. I’m not going to tell you that everyone with a blog is living it up on the beach either, working 2 hours per day, ...
Spend any time on “crypto Twitter” or Reddit, and you’ll quickly run into the term “toxic Bitcoin maximalist.” This term refers to anyone who feels that Bitcoin is the only worthwhile cryptocurrency and that all others are scams—not “altcoins” but “sh*tcoins.” I didn’t understan...
for the pollster’s failure to predict the 2019 Argentina election, which involved a controversial candidate (Cristina Fernández) who was heavily under-predicted in traditional polls. All these peculiarities together make them difficult for traditional polls to correctly predict the results of elections...
As police work has become more visible with the advent of portable video technology it has become more controversial and as those controversies have escalated so has the rhetoric from police supporters as to why police are necessary. This has resulted in the concept of the “thin blue line” ...
If I describe one of my protagonists as chubby with a large pyramid-shaped nose, fat eyelids and thin hair, I believe I’ve indicated she is not attractive. So, she is not deluding herself when she says she is ugly. However, I’ve encountered people who assume she just doesn’t know...
The incident has passed intoInternet legend. It seems almost beyond parody. But it happened. It continues to happen. The degree of consensus largely forced on game reviewersby their audienceis shocking. Imagine if Roger Ebert had nearly been harassed off the Internet for giving a controversial re...
The subject is controversial to the point of being taboo. Several people told me they’d never had a conversation about climate change until I came around asking. Others, like Yellow Hat, had anti-climate-science arguments locked and loaded. “It’s propaganda,” she told me. Like …...