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The stars are aligned for the Warriors this year. Dodged the Spurs, came up against a tired Clips team and exposed the sloppy "What's defense?" Rockets. Very surprised they've made it this far. I think Cleveland's chances depend on what version of J.R. Smith shows up.

I've bought both. Years ago went with an electric (1,800 PSI) for a lot of the same reasons you guys have stated. Then purchased a gas-powered one. (3,100 PSI) The big difference is what's creating the pressure. Motor vs. engine. Motors on these inexpensive pieces of equipment are mostly plastic. Use it rigorously and it just wears out and as time goes on the pressure will begin to fluctuate. Engines, properly maintained (non-ethanol gas (no crappy additives) and the aforementioned pump starter) will last much longer and provide consistent pressure year in and year out. It's like anything - what you're comfortable with in that up front investment. I will tell you this - the world's strongest pressure washer remains no match for the artillery fungus. Not even sure a laser would get that stuff off a piece of siding.

I'd suggest The Shield if you already haven't watched it.

This reminds me of the heyday of daytime talk shows where you could run Phil Donahue, Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse Raphael, Geraldo, Jenny Jones, Ricki Lake, Maury Povich and Montel Williams for literally eight hours a day. If you count Carnie Wilson and her show, you're now working overtime.

Letterman was a comedian for the boomers when in their prime pre-Internet. Now that most don't even stay up past 11pm and the Internet over-saturates us with celebrity news, there's just no market for it anymore other than nostalgia.

This never happened on Sons of Anarchy. Perhaps Charming was not fond of chain restaurants and there were few places to eat and then brawl.

Spikes is a linebacker built for a different NFL era, stopping Christian Okoye/Jerome Bettis types from running all over the field. If this were the late 80s/early 90s, Spikes would be a full time starter with 100+ tackles every year. But it's not like that today. Ironically, he's the type of linebacker suited for stopping the the 2015-2016 Bills offense. If we don't bring him back, I see a team we play this season signing him. If our run forever offense does well, teams are going to need Spikes-like linebackers to stop it.

You'd think a $14 million/2 year deal would be awesome, but I'm sure that after doing the job for 27 years, you probably think you're due for a raise. He's not getting a raise for the last two years of the contract. In 2008, the actors were making $400K an episode. In 2011, Fox wanted to pay $250,000. Actors agreed to $300,000. And that's where it's been. No raises since 2011. Actors don't get any royalties on the back end. Never did. I know Mr. Burns said it's not about money but about the opportunity to pursue other work. Well it's often about the money.

A sign of the end of the show. Production wants to go cheap on talent in the waning days of the show. I see this more like when the producers of Dukes of Hazzard tried replacing Tom Wopat and John Schneider with their generic cousins during a royalties dispute. I'm sure they will find a new voice for all his characters but audiences will know the difference. Talent has a price tag. Good talent is X price. Lesser talent is Y price.

Reminds me of the scene from the 1993 movie "The Professional" where Gary Oldman tells his guy to bring "everyone".... You wonder if the modern NFL defense, designed to defend the pass, could stop the Rolling Thunder formation. (7OL/2FB/1RB)

I collect: Handguns and knives from each country I've visited or have otherwise spent time in. Odd rocks I've found abroad. Patches. Probably 5-6,000 at this point. Most interesting ones are retail and commercial establishments no longer around. I've started giving complete sets (like Apollo space program) to family members as gifts. I inherited it from my dad when I was a kid, and I've built on top of his sets over the years.

A year long suspension for both coach and player. I don't see this any less of an offense than what happened in New Orleans.

Tip of the hat to the Clips. To be the man, you've got to beat the man. And they did. That game (Game 7) was one of the greatest NBA games I've ever watched. It was a prize fight to the very end. Came down to who threw the very last punch.

Two Marmalades and a Tuxedo.

That's a macroeconomic and demographic question and answer. The baby boom fueled a lot of the retail spending. Lots of boomers, lots of money, especially in the high times of the early 1970s and 1990s. A lot of it was financed through debt like mortgages, loans, credit cards, etc. Now that boomers are retiring, they aren't (shouldn't be) buying the houses, cars, boats, televisions, vacations, etc. at the clip they used to during their prime earning years. Instead of spend it on retail goodies, it's going towards healthcare. Healthcare is a determined, consistent, hungry little monster of consumption spending and overall portion of GDP. And it only goes up in the future. Another factor to consider - jobs "back in the day" were "better" than they are now. Current generations, already smaller than boomers in number, are faced with stagnant or declining wages....on top of unprecedented amounts of credit card and college debt. Makes it very hard to buy a house and first time homebuyers are incredible generators of retail spending. In short, people aren't spending because they are forced to. They either have to save for other things or simply tapped out due to debt load.

Way too much emphasis on retirement investments and not nearly enough emphasis on lifelong debt management. I get a kick out of baby boomer couples who "want" to retire but still have the mortgages (sometimes multiple, sometimes upside down), HELOCs, multiple car loans, credit card debt and kiddo college debt. There is no way they can retire and be financially secure. They do it anyway and find out they need to go back to work at an X rate because they are hemorrhaging cash or they run into some very expensive healthcare. They think they can maintain the very same lifestyle with their income restrained (retirement is like a parent with a strict allowance for 30 years) when they were making good money. Too many people say "well my parents retired when they were 62!" Well your parents probably had their house and cars paid off and the credit card spent most of its time in a drawer. And they didn't have the life expectancy and the expensive non-employer subsidized healthcare you're going to have to navigate. They may have retired during much better economic times than the present. My advice is consider debt first, retirement second because if you have a lot of the first thing, there is no way you're going to do the second thing.

No alcohol sales inside the stadium once the game starts. Contract the league by two franchises and discard the idea of a team in London, Mexico City, etc.

Philly is going to burn if he trades away both Cox *and* Kendricks. If you thought McCoy for Alonso was crossing the Rubicon...

Death, Taxes, Spurs. You're going to start to see the liability of a weak bench in the playoffs. I don't know if you watched the game the other night but Griffin, Paul and Jordan were utterly gassed in the 4th because Rivers plays them the entire game. Now they play a game every other day.

That Pelicans loss was such a Bills loss. Felt like it, and I'm not even a Pelicans fan. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

This movie looks tired. Isn't it really the same story about us creating dinosaurs that feast on the tourists? This movie series is in a tough spot - somewhere between Godzilla and Planet of the Apes. I saw a trailer for Iron Sky where Nazis are not only riding dinosaurs but underground. Now that's a concept.

A fundamental question - why is Batman fighting Superman in the first place?

"She'll be lucky to be broadcasting games on the Ocho." Dodgeball is a classic movie. Up there with UHF in the amazing amount of one-liners.

+1. If you play a modicum of decent, consistent defense against Golden State, you at least have a 50/50 chance. Everyone likes GS because it's fun to watch 3s rain down from all over the court but teams like the Spurs, Grizzlies and Hawks will close on Thompson and double Curry and make guys like Bogut and Barnes beat them. Spurs just blew the doors off GS at Oracle with both rosters at full strength. A note to Clippers: I'm not offended by your post. It will be a good series but your team has no bench and that's what's going to end the Clips season. Even if Manu goes completely bald during the series. He really should just shave it and give up that battle.

Long time (pre-Admiral) Spurs fan. Spurs will do it the hard way and come out of the West. They will have to pull a 1995 Rockets to do it. I think the Hawks will beat the Cavs and come out of the East. FWIW, the Pelicans are going to give the Warriors a competitive series. Pelicans, for the first time this season are at full strength. Wouldn't be surprised in the least to see the Warriors get bounced. I'm glad the Thunder didn't make it. Loathe that team like I loathe the Pats.