Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Shuffle a deck of cards right now and you will do something no human being has ever done before. Not close to it, either. Here’s the question that’s been stuck in my head: what are the odds of shuffling a 52-card deck into perfect order — Ace through King, in every suit? There are 52 …
Donald Trump has predicted the end of the Iran war so many times that reporters started keeping a running tally. As of this week, the count sits at 23. On September 9, he made prediction number 24: “I think the war’s going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer.” …
Congress has spent six years and more than forty separate bills trying to write federal rules for how college athletes get paid, and it still hasn’t passed a single one, zero, since the fight started back in 2021. That’s the tally according to sports law scholar Michael McCann, who’s testified on this exact topic more …
Major League Baseball is on pace for about 0.5 errors a game this season. That would break the record of roughly 0.52 a game set just two years ago, and five of the lowest error-rate seasons in the sport’s 150-year history have all landed since 2021. Nobody got better at catching a baseball. Scorers did. …
I have watched every episode of Cheers more than once, which either makes me an expert or a person with a real problem. Possibly both. Somewhere around rewatch number three, I noticed something the show never wants you to notice: nobody working at that bar has ever agreed on what time it is. Start with …
I sat through a full month of NFL preseason football. None of it counted. Most of it was ugly. I’d do it again. That’s not sarcasm, either. Preseason has a well-earned reputation for being close to unwatchable, third-string quarterbacks throwing to receivers who won’t have a job by Labor Day, offensive lines that look like …
Nine teams got hit with a luxury tax penalty after both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the most in the sport’s history, a level of tax-dodging math that would embarrass anyone else’s business plan. The Dodgers alone paid $169.4 million of it last year. They still won. That’s the whole argument for a salary cap, …
Florida had to write a law telling grown adults not to blow past a stranger stuck on the shoulder with a flat tire. Not a cop. Not an ambulance. Just a person, hazards blinking, hoping nobody clips them at 70 miles an hour. We needed legislation for that. As of January 1, 2025, Florida’s Move …
A base is fifteen inches square. That’s plenty of room for a runner’s hand to lose contact with it for exactly one video frame — and somehow, that’s apparently enough for a stadium full of people who just watched a guy get to the bag safely to be told, actually, no, he didn’t. That’s not …
August’s jobs report came in Friday morning, and it was a good one: 162,000 jobs added, more than double what economists were expecting, unemployment holding steady at 4.1 percent. That’s normally a number worth celebrating. Instead, a few hours later, the president threatened to stop trading with most of the world. At 9:56am, he posted …
In February, six Supreme Court justices told Donald Trump his tariffs were illegal. Two of the six were his own appointees. His response was to call them fools, question their loyalty, and keep charging you the tariffs anyway. Here’s the part that should bother you more than the insult. On February 20, in Learning Resources …
Nobody likes buying a car from a dealership. That’s not really an opinion at this point, it’s just consensus. A widely cited industry survey found 87% of people disliked something about the process, and if you’ve ever spent an afternoon waiting for a stranger to “check with his manager” over a number that was never …