but it’s the Lakers; they’re supposed to be one of the NBA’s flagship teams, not just another “tank to win next year” franchise. they charge insane ticket prices and have movie stars show up at their games. they’re supposed to be the cream of the crop every year.

Lessig is clearly brilliant, and clearly uninterested in actually being President. now he gets what he really wants: the chance to continue complaining about the system without the risk of actually having to govern within it.

hi: welcome to the NFL

a couple of other points: there is quite a rhetorical distance between “racist” and “vulgar,” and the lawyers’ strategy seems to be to drown the counter argument in tidal wave of pointless comparisons. it’s a lot easier to get a consensus on whether or not a racial slur is or is not racist than it is to get one on…

the inclusion of “Baked By a Negro” on their list strikes me as unintentionally illuminating of the mindset of the lawyers who wrote this.

this comment is all the more impressive considering you wrote it while trapped under a soda machine

exactly. the Royals don’t seem to be complaining about Cueto and Volquez.

not the first thing ever hanged, however

never mind the tweet, what the fuck is up with his avatar?

I love this comment very, very much

some context: in last year’s NCAA basketball tournament, SMU had the highest tuition of any school participating. other schools participating included Harvard and Duke.

it’s not problematic because the point of the sketch is that people who are otherwise exactly the same with the exception of the color of their skin are treated differently by the police, and the way the sketch hammers that home is by having the same actor play both a white man and an African American man. this is a…

yes absolutely, but it’s calling attention to the absurdity of censoring dialogue rather than the absurdity of the situation itself. the original line is funny because it’s these two grown men bullying a kid and saying something completely over the top to him. the replacement is funny because it’s silly, but it also…

I mean, other than the fact that it makes no sense, and the original lines does, but I agree that it’s really funny.

but look at the bright side: at least Simmons is probably marginally less dissatisfied now at HBO, so it’s worth it.

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Raiders fans can’t be suckers to this extent, can they?

if this was your kid, well, you’d be dead. the child recently lost her mother and was living in foster care, but go ahead and project your anger onto her... bro.

Cam Newton’s costume was exactly the same as Wilson’s /lame fantasy football reference

dude, no one’s doing any name calling. TheNSA made a joke in which he used the idea that, when taken out of context, having to sleep with beautiful women does not seem like much of punishment, and turned that idea into the setup for a pun about ski lifts. you responded with your lecture, then TheNSA literalized the…