Obviously pure speculation, but I wonder if your reader's own emails contained homophobic slurs themselves. If so, one could read Missanelli's emails as a (misguided) effort to tweak a homophobe by calling him the thing he hates most, rather than homophobic in and of themselves.

You don't throw bubble screens when you are down by that much. It proves they weren't trying to score. I don't know why, but they weren't trying. I think everybody saw that. The best passer in the league started dumping the ball off four yards at a time

When are we all going to realize that the best defense in the history of football gave up a Super Bowl record 34 completions? . . .Either Manning embarrassed the best defense in history by throwing all over them, or it was a fluke (which all of you are coming to terms with slowly).

Let's summarize.

Methinks you're projecting a bit much.

Not "in the Clippers' defense" per se, but if not Olowokandi they would have probably drafted Bibby or Raef LaFrentz first. While Bibby had some decent years, hardly an exciting number 1 pick, so you can see why they took a gamble.

The timing is certainly distressing, and appears suspicious on its face. Yet I have a hard time believing that the University would commit such a cover up for a kicker, who is almost by definition replaceable, much less one who went 1-5 on FGs in 2010 (the year after the alleged rape). (Yes, he had an amazing year…

So if a great basketball player does something, it's OK.

Strange, I made a post noting that Ms. McDonald actually killed a man and that it was far from clear that such killing was legally justified, which a number of people recommended, but it no longer appears. I hope that the original poster is not simply deleting all posts which (politely) note that Ms. McDonald's 19…

She killed a guy, and it is far, far from clear that her life was in imminent danger when she did so. 19 months in prison isn't too bad in those circumstances.

1- The physical imbalance between men and women gives rise to an inherent fear/risk of physical aggression that generally does not exist between two men.

If the person isn't lustfully ogling your privates, who gives a shit?

Call me crazy, but I don't think that was on Bargnani. He properly switched to the guy who set the pick on him. Shumpert completely ignored his man and went to guard Bargnani's guy, which resulted in the clusterfuck. Bargnani, to his credit, realized that he and Shumpert were on the same guy, leaving someone wide…

the justifiably forgotten Midnight Run

Think that was the joke.

Happiness is a T-shirt gun.

Rich guy wanted to take his kid to a game? Is that so confusing?

1. Read headline stating "Mike Shanahan Admits to Lying To the Media All The Time"

Alberto says scramble the eggs in a bowl beforehand. Jean-Georges Vongerichten says to scramble in the pan, beginning with a cold pan. http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/c…

Nowhere in the article, including the portion you quoted, did David say that Benoit "won" championship. He said that he "was" a world champion, meaning that he is someone who reached the highest level of professional wrestling stardom.