Hot on the heels of appearing alongside zombie animals in Pet Sematary, Jason Clarke is now taking on another creature that has a history of rising from the dead: The Los Angeles Lakers.

Director Adam McKay has cast Clarke as NBA legend Jerry West for his HBO hour-long pilot, Showtime. The pilot (and, hopefully, series) will be about the Lakers during the early 80s, when they dominated the court and introduced the world to Magic Johnson. It was a formidable time for the team and the sport as a whole and a lot of that was due to West, the former player who became General Manager for the team in 1982. West’s time with the team has cemented him as a Lakers hero. West is also known as The(Wikimedia Commons)





Here's some completely irrelevant information. John Maynard Keynes was bisexual and never had any children. His wife Lydia suffered a miscarriage in 1927.





Now, the sexual lives of economists don't usually come up in policy discussions, or anywhere else for that matter, but they did last week. Speaking at an investing conference for individuals with at least $2 million in liquid assets, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson said Keynes was wrong because he was too short-termist, and he was short-termist because he was gay and childless.





You read that right.

The Pity of War that Keynes may have opposed the Versailles Treaty, not because it was a short-sighted disaster, as Keynes argued, but rather because he had a National Review points out in a majestically thick-headed piece, this conservative obsession with