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[Cuzz]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november_december_2012/features/last_call041131.php?page=all&src=longreads&buffer_share=842dd

Could go just as well in the drinking thread. A comparison of the alcohol industries in the US and the UK, and their effects on both societies. 

[theory]

Every week Bill Barnwell makes great NFL recap posts: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8676418/detro-albatross-contracts-rest-week-12-news

[Forge!!!]

I'm surprised I haven't run into any of your posts on r/nfl theory, from the looks of it you post there a decent amount. I'm sure I will at some point.

[theory]

I like this article by Posnanski: http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2012/12/exhilaration-gap.html

Ranking different sports by which are better in person and which are better on TV

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

I like this article by Posnanski: http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2012/12/exhilaration-gap.html

Ranking different sports by which are better in person and which are better on TV

This part was especially great, as I watch a lot of golf on TV:

Johnny Miller can chastise better than any announcer on TV, and TV can slow down a golfer's swing with the Konica Minolta John Travolta Usain Bolta Churchill at Yolta 12 volta It's nobody's folta biz-viz-whiz hub swing vision quest camera. Which is awesome

It is an amazing camera, but it can't write prose like this.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

Damn you, theory. First, Voltgloss makes me cry in the "How old are you" thread. Then I read the Posnaski piece you cited AND I KEPT GOING, so "The Promise" made me cry again, and I KEPT GOING. So "Katie the Prefect" made me cry again.  And I'll keep going. Because now Tim Cahill (Rolling Stone, Outside) has some serious competition as my favorite writer of short pieces.

Damn you, and thank you so very, very much.

[theory]

I'll really get your spigots going, then, with these two unforgettable articles by Gene Weingarten:

Something About Harry: Old Dogs are the Best Dogs

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

[() | (_) ^/]

I'll really get your spigots going, then, with these two unforgettable articles by Gene Weingarten:

Something About Harry: Old Dogs are the Best Dogs

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

You just reposted one of the articles with which you started this thread.  I demand a refund.  Or at least another article.  This one is used.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

Wow.  In some ways, it's hard to believe the same writer wrote both.  The car death piece is great reporting, and the story presented with exquisite sensitivity.  The dog story, more a personal reflection.  On the other hand, they both capture a piece of humanity, that commonality that connects us.

[theory]

I'll really get your spigots going, then, with these two unforgettable articles by Gene Weingarten:

Something About Harry: Old Dogs are the Best Dogs

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

You just reposted one of the articles with which you started this thread.  I demand a refund.  Or at least another article.  This one is used.

Here you go!  Some bonus Weingarten pieces:

Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

The Peekaboo Paradox
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801434.html

[Jorbles]

Vanity Fair has put out two really good articles recently:

One is the oral history of Freaks & Geeks, which is probably only interesting to you if you liked that show:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/freaks-and-geeks-oral-history

This article on the French Foreign Legion (it still exists!) is fascinating for everyone:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables

[greatexpectations]

One is the oral history of Freaks & Geeks, which is probably only interesting to you if you liked that show:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/freaks-and-geeks-oral-history

i saw the photo set of the reunion, didn't even notice the article. thanks for the tip!

[Cuzz]

Forgiveness and Criminal Justice. Powerful stuff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role-in-criminal-justice.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=magazine&

[Ozle]

Why is no one else worried about Helium?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-ballooning-problem-the-great-helium-shortage-8439108.html

[Robz888]

This is a really, really fantastic story. Please read all the way to the end: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Ozle]

Im clicking that link obviously because it says the word Professor in the title, why else...

[theory]

The 14 Most Dominant Performances in sports history

[Ozle]

The 14 Most Dominant Performances in sports history

Wow, who'd have thought 13 of the 14 of the most dominant performances in all of sports history were about the US.......(and even the one that isnt he consider Owens instead of Bolt!)

So to give a slghtly more world view, for your consideration:

Don bradmans ashes series
Theres that disabled tennis woman who won every single game for about 11 years.
Brazil in the world cup
Hungary in football in the 50’s
The british olympic cycling team (mainly hoy in the 2008 olympics)
That swedish canoeist that won everything
Brian lara putting on 500 runs in one innings
That romanian who got perfect 10's in gymnastics

[Eevee]

The 14 Most Dominant Performances in sports history

I skimmed through it, seems awfully america-centric to me.

edit: I usually don't read Ozle's posts, but seems he just said the same thing. 

[eHalcyon]

Theres that disabled tennis woman who won every single game for about 11 years.

The thing that is depressing about tennis is no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.  I played a wall once, they're relentless.

-- Mitch Hedberg

[Ozle]

Also, i'd like to submit to that list my dominating 100% vwin rate over Eevee in Dominion!

[Cuzz]

To be fair, Ozle, Secretariat was not technically a US citizen.

[Ozle]

To be fair, Ozle, Secretariat was not technically a US citizen.

To be fair, Cuzz, i dont believe i said they were. I said they were about the US.....

[Jorbles]

Not as long as we'd usually put here, but this article in Slate on people who have moved to Green Bank, West Virginia to escape the symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity is excellent. It's worth reading to the end for the possible explanations of the symptoms.

[theory]

"It’s completely artificial, we've invented it, and it’s never been on this planet before, so nothing—not animals or humans—is adapted to it,” she told me.

Oh, wait, except for the EM radiation bathing the Earth every single day?