"Blackwell did not grant Le’s request for a nap"

well, yes, your second sentence must be a huge part of why Cleveland traded him.

I agree that the best version of Darius Garland is a very good player.

probably about religion and philosophy?

Harden doesn't improve Cleveland's chances meaningfully?

Domestic Box Office For 1993

Also a big DVD movie for Gen X and Millennials, I think.

Most important, the monoculture was pretty strong in 1993, whether or not you saw Groundhog Day in the theater.

www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1993/

yes. absolutely one of the most bafflingly widespread popular references in our culture. from a movie that wasn't even among the top 10 biggest hits of its year.

(one of my favorite movies)

People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.

unsure whether this is a joke about the Wizards acquiring AD or the Mavs acquiring AD a year ago

The mission of journalism is not "doing whatever will get us the best ratings."

The men who run the Washington Post just fundamentally are not in the journalism business.

Mackenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates team up!

yeah ... the pivot to national news and politics, business, and health is a) not going to work; and b) a continued abandoning of their journalistic mission the city and region

The most charitable — if politically incomplete — reading of their moves is that they are making the disastrous decision to compete as a worldwide media brand, chasing political scoops, business gossip, and health hacks instead of serving the DMV community. They do not have a journalistic mission.

Absolute truth here. Bezos and his hatchet men are full-on wearing hot-dog costumes, "trying to find who did this," after driving away both new and longtime Post readers since they pivoted to "anti-woke."

But of course, it's never *their* fault.

i win again

Dan, what is all this nonsense about "has produced slightly more through the first half of this season."

It's an all-star game. Put the best players in. Put the stars in. No one wants to watch some anonymous, boring 35th-best player in the world just because he's off to a hot start this season.

do you think

they are unaware that their staffers will eventually tell everyone about this stuff,

or they don't care if everyone knows about it?

yes, Norm Powell's strongest argument isn't that he's produced a lot this season so far for the Heat — it's that he's been doing it for a while now

yes, and that's a significant reason *why* Murray got enough shine to become an All-Star

This specific debate aside, I am really very cool with picking All-Stars based on "who are the best players right now," which is often quite different than "who produced the most in the first portion of this season."

"When in doubt, draw a distinction."

Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.

This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.

I will post them one at a time. Ready?

so mad he made up a date

I'm so puzzled why this doesn't have a narrower focus on the law-enforcement angle. I guess it's being accessible for readers who aren't familiar with his playing career?

YouTube video by mayhew7 Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow

When the veil of dreams has lifted/And the fairy tales have all been told/There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow/More precious than a pot of gold 🌈

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

extremely unfortunate — also because a year-long series with daily/weekly narratives "on this day in 1776" is a pretty compelling premise.

if humans made it.

Also because — Is there a single player in the current Celtics rotation who won't be as good or better next season? There is truly no reason to go all in this spring.

if he has *any* concerns or nagging pains, the calculus is obviously way more "risk" than "reward."

love ya, Jay. sit out the season

boy, Richard H. really is their "good former Nazi" now, huh

literally so what?

"More than a week before federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, he went to the grocery store and watched an old episode of Great British Baking Show."

are we just listing things that he did in his life that have nothing to do with his murder?

Update: She does close by admitting "I realize none of these ideas are revolutionary."