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You go, tough sports talk show guy. I dint care one way or the other about Summons, but he abused this toad with that Tweet and now this dude is removing all doubt as to his stupidity. Nicely done. - Ryan Jerz

"The basic takeaway here will be familiar to most people familiar with public choice economics: If your decision to vote is motivated by the sense that "one vote can make a difference," you are being substantially less rational than someone who never leaves the house for fear of being killed by a meteor. Voting is irrational." Heh. Wow on that one. I guess we all inherently know that, but never rationalize it in such a way. oting is stupid, but I don't mind being stupid. I do mind bumper stickers, though. - Ryan Jerz

I was wondering as I watched the ceaseless scrolling of the Strasburg non-deal on the ESPN ticker last night right up until he signed at, like 8:59, whether the fact that the Nationals would lose the rights to him would somehow make the baseball draft in this form irrelevant. Turns out it doesn't matter. However, I love the end of this post because it details how little baseball players make in comparison to other athletes in the early parts of their careers. Despite having a very effective union, baseball players make very little when first being called up, and that doesn't normally change unless the player is very, very good or the team is very, very stupid. The draft and development of players is a huge bargain, but free agency can be disastrous. - Ryan Jerz

And somehow she still thinks she has a case. The comments on this are the typical RGJ trainwreck. - Ryan Jerz

Who knew it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows out on the playa? Or, more appropriately, seeing unicorns and rainbows while wacked out of your mind on a close relative of meth. - Ryan Jerz

Cool trick. I just set it up and hope to see if it actually works. - Ryan Jerz

Pretty funny. - Ryan Jerz

Awesome idea. I love his point b) too. It really is. I was having a talk with someone today at the Summit in south Reno and she told me her Blackberry Curve was garbage. She was just waiting until she could get out of her contract to get an iPhone. And we both laughed at how iPhones are now the basis for every mobile phone conversation. Now they seem like they're the basis for any mobile applications that pop up. - Ryan Jerz

This hits a note close to home. A couple weeks ago, I was sitting and chatting with "Mike Henderson":http://iamindisposed.com/blog/, Wolfy, and he was saying that too often, arguments (debates, as I refer to them) online were a little too all over the place. I answered back that I thought that was the point of online conversation--that all thought was iterative, and the perfect blog post and the perfect comment didn't necessarily exist--that all debate was based on the last thing said. That's the beauty of the ongoing conversation online, as I see it. Granted, this isn't necessarily "investigative journalism," but it is something that can be equated to what's being said here. All online conversation offers the opportunity to drift off-topic, seemingly, when what's really happening is that the people involved are thinking through their positions and adjusting to what they see as the point of the moment. That's a big deal. Whenever anything is put into print it's over. Either you write... - Ryan Jerz

If you pay attention to sports, you'll probably recognize several of the clips that are mixed together here in this outstanding remix, set to music. All of them are laugh out loud funny in context, especially the one with Joe Namath. It's four minutes long, but worth it, to me. - Ryan Jerz

Excellent work Nevada Soccer! - Ryan Jerz

Dumbass. - Ryan Jerz

This is really funny. Freaks. - Ryan Jerz

This would appear to be Terri's response to her case getting thrown out of court. We can only hope for a book. "I only wish you knew what I knew." Indeed. - Ryan Jerz

The RGJ could do incredibly well reading this and at least taking a step or two toward trying to adhere to it. I think they violate the first two things he says and the third is probably happening. Those things make their site a total joke and make people not believe that comments in news can be useful when they should be a part of every story. I'd like nothing more than for commenters to be accountable for what they say, just like they are here and on other sites. If you say something here that makes no sense, is attacking of others, or whatever, then I will call you out. Authors of stories should do the same on their site. - Ryan Jerz

awesome. This might actually play well in cold-weather stadiums. - Ryan Jerz

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This is what the save category was invented for. A truly outstanding performance, coming in with the bases loaded an ONE OUT in the eighth with a one run lead, and he slammed the door. Listening to this on the Gameday app, I was pumping my fist and even slightly enjoying Charlie Steiner's call of it. "SWIIIING AND A MISS! HE STRUCK HIM OUT!" - Ryan Jerz

I'll take the eventual win. What a night for Kershaw. We who root for the Dodgers have a few years to really, really enjoy baseball. - Ryan Jerz

This is outstanding. While several of the commenters remark that it's going to tough to come up with 55, since most of the real hatred flows the other direction (Dodger fans actually rarely even acknowledge the existence of a championshipless team from San Francisco). I came up with one kind of obscure reason, but it's a reason. - Ryan Jerz

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This is horrible and would be horrible no matter who was involved. The end part about DUI is very interesting and should go a long ways to making all of us keep things in perspective. I said should, though, not will. - Ryan Jerz

This is a cool idea. - Ryan Jerz

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The conversation last week (http://mrjerz.org/blog...) about Yucca seems a bit more relevant today than it did then. I really do think that it will come up again. The idea that a state politician is basically asking for the waste to be shipped here can't hurt the prospects of it coming up, can it? We'd better figure out exactly what we want to do about this stuff, because I think we're going to have to answer the question soon. (Link - http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...) - Ryan Jerz

Jesus hell. I thought he had Lessig working with him on this. What a ridiculous stance. - Ryan Jerz

I'd say that about does it. Estes hasn't been effective in the past couple of years and is probably about to turn 36 if he already hasn't. Usually lefties with any movement on their pitches can last forever, but Estes might have been cut from a different mold. He was a power guy with a pretty slick curve, if my 15-year-old baseball playing mind knew anything. Without being able to reach into the mid-90s, he's got to be done. - Ryan Jerz

"In its submission, Google discusses its experience with "notice and takedown," which allows people to censor web-pages merely by asserting that they infringe copyright -- and they note that this process is routinely abused..." Well, that's telling. It's almost as if I experienced something similar enough to call it the exact same freaking thing. - Ryan Jerz

Let's see here...if you want to make people think you're not crazy, quoting Kid Rock might be a bad idea. If you get what you put in, I think she'll get a giant shipment of CRAZY. Can anyone else think of any? - Ryan Jerz