Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but the very issue the reporter in question here is so shocked at is but a faint glimmer of the kind of behavior that is at the crux of the problem here in Baltimore, and all over this fevered country: the unacceptable hooliganism that has become policing in this country,…

Actually, that’s what made this current post remarkable to me. Back in the 80s, I remember Mr. Sliwa for his profound sense of sincerity as it related to the Guardian Angels’s mission: to secure public places with nothing more than vigilant presence. Whether that was sincere or not at the time, this latest series of…

This response is so sharp in its sarcasm that I may just shave with it tomorrow!

Ironically, Mr. Sliwa used to be the spear-point for a group known as the Guardian Angels, whose purpose was to secure public places by their vigilant presence. Too bad they’re not still around. They could escort him to a place where he wouldn’t hurt anyone with his vile utterances

“A floater that appeared to be going in,” really?

Does the phrase “making amends” exist in your reality?

I’ve always maintained that Hollywood is nothing if not toxically formulaic. If there was a movie of someone literally taking a dump, and that movie was made for X amount of money, had an opening box office weekend of $100 million, and recouped 5 times its investment, there would, per force, be a sequel.

By asking the very question.

bg,

Buddy, when smarm becomes a bull market, you will be well-positioned.

Gee, ya’ think?

Sir, what I am expressing is a sense of wonder: I plainly didn’t get a reference, something I readily admitted. But that wasn’t enough somehow. Look, man, you want to dignify the mood of this place by mischaracterizing my response as indignant, have at it. It’s not unfair, the dominant outpouring—it’s just misguided.

You’ve been drinking too much of that which you are named after. I was using the term in the sense that it was suggested to me earlier in this thread.

Look, the genius of the original comment was how well it was cloaked in the rhetoric that is so often misdirected at the president. I fully get how Deadspin is riddled with self-referential dudes, bros, and people for whom the idea that someone would not only not get a reference they make but then would commit the…

Tell you what: You learn to comprehend things beyond being belligerent, and I will address your question, Richard.

I got it after I understood who Coach Wittman is, yes.

I don’t get a reference in a joke and that makes me a twat?

Thank you.

My point exactly: I didn’t get the reference that provided the out. And I get how the whole thing topples for any reader like me who doesn’t get the reference. What I find hilarious is the pack mentality that has sprung up in response to my failing to get the reference. Anyone who writes comedy knows that if you hang…

Actually, you mistake ignorance for idiocy. I was merely ignorant; I didn’t get the reference that was the linchpin of the post. In your shriveled world, that is clearly a capital crime.