Checked out The Outside based on this article and it’s not a BAD book, but it it isn’t all there either. The author was more concerned with setting the stage for the series as a whole than writing one good, complete story.

And the Saints, as always, were willing to offer picks they didn’t have and couldn’t afford to trade. DC partly saved them from themselves

No, I remember the game. But I also remember that everyone outside of Minnesota celebrated the strategy at the time. Favre was an older, less mobile quarterback who held onto the ball too long, QBs were not yet a protected species, and refs tend to hold onto their flags in the playoffs. It wasn’t a NICE strategy, but it was a viable one given the state of the NFL at the time.

Here’s the real deal though - the only reason it really mattered is because the NFL, after YEARS of denial, finally had to admit that concussions were bad in 2012. The Saints and NFC championship game, until then viewed as “this is what the NFL is about”, got flipped to “this is everything that’s wrong with today’s game, stop it now.”

The internet has ruined my brain, and I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.

Saints took a pretty big hit on Boutygate when the whole damn league was doing the same shit.

Scrubs > Grey’s Anatomy and any other medical show on air

Also heard from an ER doc that scrubs is the only medical show he’s ever seen that remotely resembles reality. Most medical shows have 1st-2nd year residents doing more exotic procedures in a month than real doctors see in a career.

What are your feelings on rape as a plot device? Or MASSIVE deus ex machina? There’s a non-zero chance that rape is actually used AS deus ex machina at some point, I can’t really remember all of the details anymore.

OP is a few books away from where it goes full blown Ayn Rand.

Just stop reading 3/4 of the way through the Stephenson doorstops and you’ll enjoy them a lot more.

Probably would have eaten less if he ate more slowly. There’s signal lag between when your body gets full and when it tells your brain this information. The slower you eat, the less lag there is between consumption and satiety signals to the brain. That’s why a lot of weight loss advise is “drink more water throughout the day” and “drink 20 oz of water 20 minutes before a meal”. It goes in the tank and sits there long enough for you to register it’s there.