I get that, but the end result is so skewed (Latinos living in the border states will be excited to learn that there is no racism there) as to be meaningless. African Americans are not the only targets or racism and to suggest so is bizarre. It would be nice to put some sort of disclaimer in the post.

The metric was specifically designed to detect racism against blacks, so yeah. But one could conceivably do a different study using slurs against other groups.

That’s probably because this didn’t include searches with anti-Mexican terms.

Oh for fuck’s sake. So anti-Hispanic, Asian, Native, or Semitic racism just doesn’t exist.

hmm. All the major cities in Texas are in green except Dallas. Interesting.

This visualization also makes it horrifically clear that Stalin was not even remotely close to speaking in metaphors when he was asked about his strategy for defeating Germany and replied “They will choke on our dead.”

F*#K! I’ve spent years studying and reading about WW2 and the numbers are no surprise to me but to see it laid out like that is heartbreaking. Makes me think of Stalin’s famous aphorism, ‘A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

Because it’s the exact opposite competitive conditions. You hack DeAndre or Dwight because they are terrible shooters, a key skill in basketball. You walk Bonds because he is so much better than other players, a key trait in everything.

Why doesn’t intentional walking get the same hate as Hack-a-whoever? Both feel like gaming the system. They also have the same effect of slowing down the game as the result of a counterintuitive gamble taken by the opposing team.

If you’re trying to clean up blood after the murder, you’re doing it wrong.

Thank you: “The problem isn’t that this episode included a rape, but that it did so in the service of bad storytelling. It told the audience nothing that wasn’t already known, and it didn’t advance any plot lines beyond where they already were.”

I hate you for caring so much about what other people eat. Why do you care?

Three things.

I blame art schools for most things.

Not even close. Cubs.

You misspelled Cubs.

Yes! WITH A LION.

Bring back the games. And have politicians battle it out for their nominations.

Seems like a convenient place for Bears fans to deposit all of their hopes and dreams of their beloved team making it to the playoffs anytime in the next five years. Heeeyoooo!