Greenland, Land of Ice and Thursday Night Open Thread

Aluu!  That's welcome in Kalaallisut (aka West Greenlandic) Kalaallisut is the official language in Greenland, although most people also speak Danish and English since Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark and English is useful to know for all sorts of reasons.  Tourism is actually a fairly minor industry in Greenland

Test Post: Classics Rewritten in Metric

Most of the world uses the metric system nowadays, and even in the US metric is mostly used in science and engineering.  We also don't have as much use for such quaint measurements as fathoms, pecks, or cubits.  I can't remember the last time I was in an automobile where

Hatingly hating the hater hater’s hate: A Tuesday Open thread

Apologies for the lateness of this thread, some idiot decided to drive into some other people's cars on the highway.  While they did generate many negative feelings among the thousands of people stuck in the resulting traffic, which is totally on-brand for Hate Week, it did delay this post. While I

The Landover Snyder’s Team Preview 2018

Alex Smith (QB), not to be confused with Alex Jones or any other leaders with tiny hands Adrian Peterson (RB), in a switch from the 'winning the offseason' days was signed at veteran's minimum WR Paul Richardson, DE/OLB Pernell McPhee, CB Orlando Scandrick (released) Drafted: NT Da'Ron Payne, RB Derrius

The Drunken Trade War Friday Open Thread

This is Dok, filling in for the Friday Open Thread.  This has been an eventful week, US politics-wise, and while I was thinking of doing a piece about John Jay, early Chief Justice. I'm not gonna do that.  Instead, I'm going to repeat an unfounded rumor that the reason there's no

The Kansas City Chiefs : A Bye Week Tale

So, first thing first, the quick stats. Going into the bye, the Chiefs were 6-3. This makes them the only team in the cheeto vomit division otherwise known as the AFC West to be over .500 and consequently the GLORIOUS DIVISION LEADER. They've played exactly half of their division games,

The 2017 Redacteds : We are Not Enthused

It seems that "Kinda like last year, but slightly worse" is not an adequate team preview, even if I tack on "Third in the NFC East." Where is the overexuberant and unrealistic optimism of the typical Redacteds fan, you may ask?  And I would respond that third in the NFC East