ARE YOU READY TO RUMMMMMM BLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEE?
The 66 games in 123 days are over. Linsanity is a distant memory. The Bobcats wish their worst-winning-percentage-in-NBA-history was a distant memory. The Lakers were too old and washed up, and now they’re back. The Spurs were too old and washed up, and now they’re back. The Celtics were… look, there’s a bit of a theme going on here.
16 teams enter and 1 team leaves. Who will be… America’s Next Top Model the next NBA champion?
Welcome to the real football season. The one in which a clash of bodies results in a roar of approval rather than a whistle and a lot of theatrical rolling around. The one in which shoulder pads are reserved for the corporate boxes. Continue reading
Apparently, if you donate at least 200,000 pounds to the Conservative Party of Britain- the Tories- you can go to dinners with Prime Minister David Cameron and “you can ask him practically any question you want”. “Thing will open up for you… it will be good for your business.” Oh, and “If you’re unhappy about something, we will listen to you and put it into the policy committee at number 10”. Continue reading
So. It has come to this.
Plan after plan after plan has gone by the wayside, as has a Prime Minister, and there has been no resolution to Greece’s massive sovereign debt problem. Now Greece is quite simply out of time. After months of hysteria, we have quietly reached the edge. It’s not the end of the Eurozone, but you can see it from here. Continue reading
One of the great things about creative writing is that you get to write the kind of dialogue that sound brilliant but that no one ever gets an opportunity to say in real life. For every “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” or “Marcia Marcia Marcia!” that you can find a way to use every day, there are thousands of fantastic and dramatic lines you can never quite work into the conversation. Continue reading
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Eastern Conference half of the half-season NBA review. The Western Conference part can be found here and I must say that the last week’s results have only solidified the opinions I gave on the West. Especially Spurs over Clippers and the two big wins for Golden State over quality opposition. Continue reading
(A quick note from Bots: Baldwin’s post is only tangentially related to the Denver Nuggets’ old 90s logo but I always liked its Disco Tetris vibe, so we’re using it!)
With all teams having played between 28 and 32 out of the 66 games they will play in the compressed 123 day regular season, and time ticking down to the trade deadline, it’s a good time to take a look at where each team is, the answered questions, the unanswered questions, and maybe take a sneaky peek towards the playoffs. Continue reading
There are so many different ways you can answer this question. You could decide it’s about a philosophical journey, about the change in your political beliefs compared to the beliefs in your parents, the movement in your socio-economic status. You could be a bit more literal and calculate how far you’ve traveled. For example, I estimate that I’ve walked, jogged and run far enough to go around the world at the equator, let alone distance covered in planes, trains and automobiles. Continue reading
Things car companies do not want their products associated with: death and backfiring.
Unfortunately for BMW-owned MINI, what was meant to be a cheap publicity stunt has associated both with the marque’s iconic MINI Cooper across a large swathe of Europe. Continue reading
Norwegian insurance company DNB has found itself on the receiving end of some bad publicity after its draconian crackdown on toilet breaks made worldwide news. DNB installed a surveillance system to track call center employees. If an employee spent over 8 minutes in a day on personal breaks, including time spent in the toilets, a flashing light went off to alert management to the slack employee. Continue reading