The thing about people like Hayes, and all pundits, really, is that there is great benefit for being proven right and no penalty for being proven wrong

Aw, no, Mark, I’m so sorry. Virgil was one of the best of all boys

Legit LOL

It’s true, my wife and I always bond over the thing we are both really good at (getting high and making snotty comments about reality television)

Y’all are really angling for spots in the Nepali-language version of Truly Tasteless Jokes

Given that he used to be married to biathlete Nathalie Santer, I bet I can guess. Domracheva used to work for the KGB so maybe he won’t be so cavalier with his affections in the future

This has been SPICY BIATHLON TALK, with your host, Leonard “I Have Never Been Skiing in My Life” Pierce

LOL I remember that, hilarious

The remnants of the Nepalese royal family: “Too soon"

Number of nonwhite GBBO winners since 2010: three

Number of nonwhite biathlon medalists since 1960: zero

(@defector.com is all over this stuff, as you might well expect)

It’s not so much that these are behaviors that would be surprising from people who both ski and do target-shooting, based on my admittedly limited experience of both, but it’s still adding an unexpectedly peppery quality to the otherwise bland fare usually on offer at the Winter Olympics.

Which is why this year’s Winter Olympics are so bonkers! One biathlon medal winner had a huge weepy meltdown about cheating on his girlfriend at the press conference, and another was recently convicted of identity theft and credit card fraud.

That said, , I do like biathlon just because I generally enjoy sports that are barely abstracted forms of professional violence (see also: fencing, modern pentathlon, boxing, wrestling, judo, etc.). In this house we respect competence in professional violence

Quote of the Day:

“By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot one’s self.” (Gustave Flaubert)

In history today, the LAPD raids a civil rights fundraiser at the communist John Reed Club and destroys many works of art in 1933.

The noir of the day is 1947’s THE BRASHER DOUBLOON, directed by John Brahm for 20th Century Fox and starring Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, and George Montgomery.

It's pretty funny that they say "but in capitalism you have private property!" But for most people if you're lucky enough to have them your house is an AirBNB, your car is an Uber, phone is an advertisement, etc.

It's hard enough to understand how my parents' generation survived without a screen on their phones that told them to get a divorce

It used to be that getting a product shipped to you meant buying it from the actual company and not a sociopathic middleman and sometimes delivery would take a whole week, requiring you to either plan ahead or buy it from a store. I refuse to be treated this way