Didn’t Mercedes start as Mercedes? In 1934?

So your point is that because athletic teams aren’t separate from universities, the way they are in the rest of the civilized world, the US is doomed to leadership from people like Donald Trump? I just want to make sure I have that right.

Popdog. heh

How am i ‘proven wrong’? Every point you’ve made has to do with NASCAR. If you look a bit more closely at what I actually wrote you’ll see that I never said she had been good in that series - ‘it remains to be seen.’ My point is that calling her ‘unsuccessful’ is, by any measure, a mistake. Her IndyCar results prove…

I have heard from a well-connected friend that many top tennis players use performance enhancers. When you consider how important fitness has become in the sport (Nadal), how it can change career trajectories (Djokovic, Murray), and how it can lengthen careers beyond their normal life expectancies (Federer), it’s not…

Or when Luis Suárez and Daniel Sturridge almost danced and scored Liverpool into a shock EPL title, only to (literally) stumble at the least opportune moment and blow it.

When I said taxing inheritances at all I am not talking about the inheritance tax per se - I’m talking about income tax. No matter how large the inheritance it is treated as taxable income and is taxed at whatever your resulting rate is. This is in addition to the estate tax where applicable. For example, if you…

1) My income is taxed. But then I have to pay taxes when I spend it.

It’s a cash grab pure and simple. The rate is exorbitant - 40% at the moment - and has no rational basis.

I just don’t see how the fact that our money has ‘already been taxed’ in all of these other areas makes it imperative that we accept the estate tax.

That’s the point!

I’m as anti-Jeb as the next politically literate liberal, but I’m starting to think you might be the Mike Lupica of Gawker Media. The following stands out to me:

I’m not sure if you have a problem with Ron/Rand Paul or with libertarians. Are you saying that libertarianism itself isn’t principled or intellectually worthy? Or that the Pauls aren’t really the libertarians they say they are? Or both?

With all due respect for your opinions about the rest of his policies, and his lack of accompanying plans for them, repealing Hyde isn’t really going to take a ‘plan’ as much as it’s going to take navigating Congress and dealmaking. Sanders is an experienced congressional dealmaker, and he has in fact spent the last…

Take comfort in the fact that lists like that are pointless, and neither Rory nor Jimi Would have given a shit.

Love Rory’s playing, and it took living in Ireland for a year to discover him.

She didn’t expect any of those things, in fact she actually apologized when the match was over to the American fans - who she’d mostly won over at that point.

Instead of wasting everyone's time with this pointless rant about a moment pretty much everyone felt good about (even liberals like me!) could you get back to sports and wrote the article about the biggest upset in tennis history everyone's waiting for? Thanks!

+1 this is fantastic

more probable than not that Tom Brady was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities