Am I the only one who thinks of Jules as Danny Green 2.0? Seems like there are a lot of parallels there.

It would be interesting to know, though, how many points the defense is giving up with Jeremy at center, sans Wemby, Biyombo or Olynyk. It has seemed — again, eyeball test — like the Spurs have been much better with Jeremy replacing Wemby.

This validates the eyeball test. The interior defense has looked awful without Wemby, especially when the Spurs were relying on Biyombo at center, but also with Olynyk.

Love it! And love, love, LOVE the new City Edition uniforms!

Like, would we consider Sam Walton’s heirs great investors because they held on to their Walmart stakes? I don’t think so.

I don’t think most people would say that makes him a great investor. Maybe it shows he’s a Microsoft true believer — which is more or less what he says on the podcast

The thing is that they’re saying what I was saying, just with a different spin. Ballmer’s fortune comes from holding Microsoft stock that he got as an early employee. They’re saying he’s a great investor because he chose to hold on to that stock rather than diversify.

The Acquired guys themselves made that assertion: www.acquired.fm/episodes/the...

Belatedly, now that I’ve finally listened to all of the Pablo Torre podcast about the Kawhi deal and part of the follow-up with Cuban, I understand where you (and Pablo) got the idea that Ballmer was the best investor of the last 20 years — from the Aquired podcast episode this summer with Ballmer

This is evocative of the Cultural Revolution.

This is a good creed for journalists

In case you or anyone else is interested, Forbes has the story of how Ballmer made his fortune here:

Ballmer was an expert business operator (although not a particularly great CEO). I don’t believe he’s known for being a particularly “savvy” investor.

Nice piece, Mike. One quibble, though. Ballmer made his billions by being an early employee of Microsoft and agreeing to exchange his profit-share benefit for an 8% stake in the company that he subsequently helped build into a corporate behemoth.

What she said (and I’ve said before, that this has been a known phenomenon in media studies for at least 30 years, that the more attention the media puts on crime, the more crime viewers will believe is occurring in their area, *regardless* of what is really happening).

The Alamo looks like a four-year-old made it with clip art on Print Shop back in the day, but even so, San Antonio's isn't terrible.

These were all *lies* meant to dehumanize and stigmatize this group of people.

and "But Mrs. Rinvil was alarmed by Mr. Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about Haitians — they 'all have AIDS,' he said at the time — and moved to Canada."