Man, what a bad bunch of lawyering by this dude's legal counsel.

I presume the goal was to avoid the millions in fines and forfeitures with the hung charges, but once you have clemency on the table, the lawyers should have dismissed the appeal, let the USAO attempt to retry him, strike a plea deal and waive all rights to appeal, (maybe) negotiate the fines down, and then sit and wait for the whole thing to be commuted. Especially knowing Trump would possibly not be President when the appeal was over. But instead, this dipshit took a grant of clemency before his proceedings were over. Not sure if they were just that convinced they'd win on appeal (a unanimous circuit decision says it clearly wasn't a slam dunk), but this is just bad lawyering.

I think he means "Gladwell discussed this phenomenon, except the sport was hockey instead of soccer." Outliers specifically discussed Canadian youth hockey.

Someone made it up to the Sky Pond. Talk about an incredible hike. So worth the effort though.

This wasn't recent, was it? I heard it's been snowing up there. When my buddy and I hiked this a month ago, Timberline Falls was already freezing over, so the scramble was pretty interesting in a few places. I cannot imagine getting up there in snow and ice.