It is bizarre what the establishment chose as its purity test.

At some point you'd get somewhere or they'd be bankrupt. It's a huge company with a lot of people making good salaries and a lot more people making below a living wage.

Arguing over the average of an individual CEO compensation package (especially Walmart's!) pretty much misses the point.

The extrapolation is how the entire profit payout has moved upwards over the last 60 years.

The top six executives at Walmart are making $99M. Think of what the top 60 executives are making.

Extrapolate.

The "I was misquoted" follow-up will be fun.

The new lie detector test.

This was always going to happen.

Let them eat mini puff pastries.

15 counting layovers. 12 actual "time spent".

That was really confusing. For a minute I thought MLB was about to force them to sing God Bless America.

Is that song some kind of seventh inning stretch song in Toronto, like Sweet Caroline in Fenway? It must made no sense.

The home plat stat was the result of ... more cameras! And numbers that add up! Literally had nothing to do with AI.

Freedom fries back on the menu.

Mars Attacks

I have been in stores in Portland recently. They exist. Have windows and everything.

I'm sorry, what was the question? All these insurrectionists across the country? Who literally are made up?

I have tried to not just react to that, but that's part of it. I also have always felt that he's a piñata of colorless canned phrases He actually could not tell the story of the game in front of him. And then there's that tedious yodel at the end of games.

Speaking of John Sterling, you know who never won the Ford Frick award? Bill White.

I will also point out that John Sterling is the single worst baseball broadcaster I have ever had the pain of hearing. The Yankees chose mediocrity there and when you're terrible for enough years, people nominate you for awards.

I think the more basic problem is we need to overhaul how broadcasters get noticed. One (small and relentlessly attacked) benefit of efforts to get more women doing broadcasts is that is breaks up the legacy admissions.

Well they voted in an Italian once.

I am I the only one hoping they get their wish?

Some people live in epistemic bubbles. Other people have their head up their ass.

One more reason we need rigorous anti-trust. Turns out the biggest businesses are the biggest quislings.

Fascists celebrate violence, then use violence as an excuse to be violent. It's core to the ideology.

Cleary that's Kim Jong Un's signature.

Well they did after war crimes trials.

Check out G. Elliot Morris and Jeremy Ney if you want to read data journalism that actually drives from data.

Talking heads are like kids playing APBA. If you a button exists you have to press it.