Nah, Republican politicians and voters are the same slime they’ve been since at least 1968. The idea that the astroturfed Tea Party represents any kind of difference from GOP business as usual is laughable - they’ll still happily slash taxes for the rich while driving up the debt to pay out cronies in the proper…

I mean, fuck Bud Selig in general but it’s hard to imagine baseball being in better health at any time in its history than it has been for the past decade or so.

If you look at attendance during the golden age, America’s Pastime wasn’t exactly burning down the house even then.

Meyer wants a strongman, a significant percentage of Americans do, and will ignore every other thing the strongman does as long as he poses as a powerful authority figure.

Does USADA test for poppers?

Well that was painfully awkward and boring.

Clinton’s concession on election night makes this untenable. She should have waited for near-final counts and then considered recount options - and either conceded then or fought.

Snopes, attempting neutrality, can’t dig into the real effects of the bill.

The Premier League would be better served (for building fans if not money up front, and they may not give two fucks about building fans long-term since they aren’t hurting for new ones right now) with a mlb.tv-esque streaming service alongside NBC - the soccer fans I know are primarily young-ish and urban, the…

I think you give voters far too much credit to voters for even basic knowledge of policy proposals. A not-small percentage of voters said they thought Trump would be ‘more liberal’ than Obama.

What the average voter hears is the campaign narrative (Hope. Change. Make America Great Again.) - along with, in this case,…

I occasionally think about venturing into Stormfront like Jane Goodall scoping out a group of chimps that have turned cannibalistic but I’m put off by the many layers I’d want between me and them.

In my experience, a combination of eliminating added sugar and intermittent fasting is less complicated and easier to maintain than counting calories or worrying particularly about macronutrient ratios.

Say you eliminate sodas - that also probably eliminates a lot of fast food, because how enticing is Wendy’s when…

Hey, some of us with problems with authority just became strident civil libertarians instead of assholes.

Why are all football coaches pencil-dicked autocrats and so many basketball coaches (with exceptions) seemingly cool?

Geriatric German car for less than $10k, how could that possibly go wrong?

I couldn’t find a decent Land Cruiser of this gen or preferably the one before for $10k or less on Craigslist last year, but 190k mile XJ Cherokees are also selling for obscene amounts so who the fuck knows what’s up with Texas.

This truck will look magnificent tailgating me and then swerving across three lanes and back to get ahead by two cars.

My argument to people, beyond the commercials -

Baseball and soccer are dramatic - both get criticized for nothing happening but when ‘something’ does happen, it’s a huge catharsis and if you become a more in-depth fan you start to see all the small actions that lead to the big event. The hot stove and transfer…

If I steal it once to make up for a flight where I was getting speeds so slow it felt like 1995 (at least for the five minutes I tried before giving up), am I justified in stealing it once?

Oh, man, this is always the best punchline. Everything actually put into place by the party conservatives vote for in lockstep... “that’s not what conservatives believe in.”

Now if only they could erase the software that keeps Priuses (Prii?) from maxing out at 55 on the interstate.

We’re missing the bigger picture here - Christ, Call of Duty is awful now. Being bound by gravity and weapons that were vaguely similar to things that actually exist was the fun part of the game.