The widespread pearl-clutching over Carlsen’s draw offer is amusing but absurdly overblown (and much of it, from catty rivals and former champs, disingenuous). He was obviously a far better judge of his own relative strength in the moment than any critic, and he made a pragmatic decision to pursue his large advantage i…

He practically lived Freddy Kruger’s origin story.

Each biography in this excerpt was more depressing than the previous one. I’m totally sucked in and can’t wait to get my copy. Well written, CuJo.

Rght, and how do you keep a home when your mortgage payment is based on an income that you aren’t making anymore? I take issue with anyone politicizing this. The people affected don’t have the luxury of politics. They have t figure out how to keep their homes, how to keep their families fed.

They’re closing a plant in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. None of the 2,800 workers there (not to mention the 20-30,000 feeder plant jobs) voted for Trump.

To be fair to Trump, this is on GM. We can blame him for lying about the corporate tax cuts saving jobs, we can blame him for tearing holes in the safety net that the laid off workers are going to need soon, but he didn’t close the plant.

Not going to lie, I think it’s always been in my comedic bucket list to witness something like this.

Even better is how pissed he is at the kid laughing about the whole thing right behind him.  Lighten up, Francis.

Moments like this fight make me wish I had gotten into, I don’t know, golf at an early age instead of wrestling/boxing/MMA. That the appeal of the crank of the club against the ball, the smell of freshly cut/watered grass, and sunny days won out. Instead, I fell in love with sports that tenderize their participants…

Once again jezebel, third-wave rag, writes about sex worker by featuring white, well-paid, women. A woman who would have other economic options. Never the women in brothels who are billed for every tampon they use and leave more broken and (literally) broke than when they entered. Or the numerous places where sex work…

Announcers doing the “boy, you hate to see violence” thing during a game that literally kills its participants will never cease to amaze me.

Not since Lyndon Johnson has someone been stuck making love to a lifeless, frigid Lady Bird.

Many people don’t know that Blake Griffin is biracial as well:

Peep my profile pic. If I had a nickel everytime I had to explain my dad is black, mom is white and no I was not adopted I’d have Jeff Bezos type, fuck you (not YOU) money right now.

Thank you for this. I played some chess as a kid, read Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess 100 times and maybe got a little above average at it. Seeing the strategies and possibilities broken down like this is very interesting and educational.

Hey! You guys are excerpting it, too? I just read a section about their engagement over on Fox News, whaddya know?

Pulitzer Prize committee are most likely morons, just like the Nobel Prize committee. (This is slightly off topic, but i am posting it anyway.) Malala Yousafzai should have won the peace prize the 1st year she was nominated, but they gave it to a group that was trying to remove the chemical weapons from Syria, which…

This is too bad. The lawyers for the board interviewed me in late August. I gave them names of witnesses etc. Did they not take what I had to say seriously? Junot Diaz is a very troubled person and should not be in any gatekeeping role that puts him in contact with young women writers of color. What a travesty.

“That’s a...nice-lookin’ runnin’ quarterback ya got there, Baltimore,” Marvin Lewis uttered menacingly. “be a shame if...anything happened to him, ya know?”

No big deal -- Gruden’s contract is up pretty soon, right?