The following is not intended to discount the need for greater systemic change in Smash, reports, or society in general, but it seems apparent that Smash events are insanely lax on attendance rules given the age range of potential participants. Measures to ensure that minors are accompanied by a parent or guardian…

Deadspin Forever.

I think there’s an argument to be made that those lines had already crossed and are now rapidly diverging.

I’m not 100% in on Lemon yet either, but it’s so weird to be in this position. If you had said to me at the end of last year that I was going to watch Don Lemon interview Terry Crews and come out the other side agreeing with Don Lemon on Crews needing to get right with the times I'd have laughed in your face.

How many museum piece Jaguar XK120s do we need?  At a certain point, there are enough Concours-ready vehicles out there.  They’re beautiful cars, but they were also always intended to be driven.  I don’t think there’s anything wrong with creating a version of the vehicle that’s more likely to stay on the road, rather…

So this woman is (formerly) employed at a Hampton Inn, and there is absolutely no reason to care whatsoever about who uses the pool. We’ve all worked in customer service, and no one gives a shit about how customers use or abuse our employers’ shit, except to the extent that it affects us, which in this case is…

This is a bummer, not because I think the Drow joke is worth keeping, but because the rest of that episode is so good and so important to the context of that whole season.  I hope they cut something together to get a blackface-less version back into syndication/streaming, because the rest of that episode is totally…

Sure, but that world requires significant structural and cultural change that won’t occur unless we create programs that treat people justly. If all we did was treat applicants “equally” then tons of POC college applicants would be/are overlooked because regardless of their intellect or desire to learn, they go to…

People who think AC2 is better than Brotherhood are lunatics and the opposite of Batman.

So, I live in Germany, a nation more heavily policed than many in the EU, and in the 10 years I’ve been here, I have been stopped three times, all stops in the middle of the night, related to drunk driving incidents in the town I was driving through, which is frequented by younger American service-members who tend to…

I just cracked open one of the many books I own about the Civil War, and I can assuage your concerns. None of the many, many pictorial representations of the various Confederate flag and symbols have been mysteriously redacted or removed. Ergo, it will likely be difficult to forget them, much as I might like to.

I’m pro-union, so I always took the position that if we had better, more accountable cops then we’d have a better, more accountable police union. Now, I’m convinced that cops having a union is like allowing contract killers to have one. It’s another way for a fundamentally unsound organization to exert power over…

I watched a bunch of the courtroom footage of Dial’s testimony, and while most of it involved me sinking into a deep depression at hearing multiple retellings of how these three men conspired to hunt down and kill a black man for the crime of being near a construction site at the same time that they wanted to kill a…

At first I was like “sure, storage, put them in a museum someday” but I’m now thinking about what the museum would be for. They aren’t contemporaneous with the Civil War or its immediate aftermath, so I why bother? There’s tons of portraits, prints, photos etc. of Lee and virtually every other major figure of the war,…

Robert E. Lee was such a piece of shit that this almost makes me wish that his statue stayed, because if he was against something I instinctively want to be in favor of it.

That’s an interesting reading of history, given that more radical civil rights organizations like the Black Panthers were absolutely instrumental in the movement towards civil rights. Not to mention riots and other civil strife being motivating factors to grant civil rights.

A poverty-stricken landlord is someone who bought property they couldn’t afford believing that the real estate market and/or AirBnB would compensate for their stupidity. A rich landlord can afford to waive his tenants rent during incredibly hard times (for example, a pandemic, or a national economic downturn, or high…

Securing exclusivity has been a valid, consistent strategy among a variety of industries for decades, if not centuries. And Epic’s policies are not significantly different from Battle.net or Origin. EA only just started releasing games on Steam again, and no Blizzard game has ever been on Steam.

I think the FFXIV comparison also ignores the lengths Square went to support and improve the original game.

Just once I want to see a headline about a company in trouble saying “AM in trouble, but panic is rampant and stakeholders are stripping the rotting husk of the company for parts.”