I know Deadspin is really really against LA getting the Olympics, but the city itself seems pretty ok with it, at least according to polls. I personally don’t know any residents against it, obviously that’s not to say there aren’t any, but I think they’re pretty solidly in the minority. Certainly there is a lot of…

I know the prevailing attitude towards the Olympics here at Deadspin is that they can go fuck themselves. But at least be honest.

Congratulations on having a different experience than I.

Lived here for 37 years and never heard anyone say that.

That doesn’t really fit though- it says the NBA is just the latest organization to do this (profit from his body). The examples given are not about his corpse- they are about his legacy, memorabilia, his advocacy. In any case, MLK’s assassination and death is not the same thing as his corpse.

I do not understand this headline. Why do you write “Martin Luther King Jr.’s body”? What is this supposed to mean?