I feel like venture capitalists would consider theft a sport, right?

I would give anything to see #2. When is the last time you think he ran?

Sadly, our Big Wet President will not be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch on Sunday—though, as we’ve argued before, it would be the perfect thing to heal our divided nation

I’m not trying to be a jerk here but nobody cares if you knew this game was still around or not. 

Must be visiting BYU

Pfft. If they’re not being chased by roided-up goons, I could care less.

on the one hand: awful, late-capitalist hellscape.

What about the plumbers and aluminum siders working on the Death Star!?!

“Dear, are you reading OldBeigeGuy puns on the toilet again?”

It is legitimately terrifying on so many levels that he sees people who criticize him as people who criticize America. Biff the Dipshit cannot process that people who don’t love him still love the country.

I dunno about you, but I’m boycotting them going forward until they come up with a more reasonable stance on this issue. Censorship of competitors who are calling for more democracy, of all things, is absolutely beyond the pale. The fact that it offends an authoritarian regime doesn’t matter.

Ultimately, everything is political. I forget who actually said it, but the aphorism that we do not have to take an interest in politics for politics to take an interest in us is absolutely true—and it’s of vital importance to the present situation.

More importantly, Acti-Blizz (and the NBA, and South Park) took a…

I’m not going to BlizzCon, nor do I plan to, but if someone were doing pro-democracy protests at SDCC next year or something like that, I’d have no problem with it. In fact, I’d encourage it.

They most certainly have that right.

Blizzard absolutely has a right to control speech of players on its platform. And we have the right to criticize them for sucking up to thin-skinned authoritarians. There’s no hypocrisy there.

offends a portion or group of the public,

Stray Queries

What kind of joyless assholes do you work with that that merits a complaint?

I shall invent a device that alerts Dolphins fans when they are being erroneously charged for purchases. It will emit a Dolphin-call shriek if a skimmer is used to rack up a fraudulent charge. I will call it “the Miami Sound Machine.”