Well, two reasons. They also drafted him because he’s white. 

People try to pretend that something like Back to the Future isn’t sci-fi or Game of Thrones is dramatically different from other fantasy for two reasons: (1) Despite being a grown-ass adult who can enjoy whatever fiction they please, they still harbor deep-seated insecurity that the high school bully will make fun of…

Cool, now the Yankees should get rid of the rest of their unbearable post-9/11 jingoism. 

In fairness, most professional soccer players in England have barely more than a grade school education since academic rigor isn’t exactly a priority for the pro academies most of them go through.

Yikes. That’s worth a very, very long suspension. 

1. Plastic bags take way longer than 10 years to decompose and any “sources” who say otherwise are either lying or don’t know what they’re talking about.

Sometimes I have mild panic attacks when I realize that no one will ever face any consequences for any of this. Just like with W. and his cronies, who in a just world would have stood trial in the Hague and spent the rest of their lives in prison for the crimes against humanity that they committed, neither Trump nor…

I think it kind of depends on how strictly you view continuity. If you’re an “everything counts unless it’s explicitly retconned or rebooted” then it’s definitely true that continuity can be a burden and writers have to do DC-style cosmic retcons on a fairly regular basis. But for the most part Marvel is pretty loose…

As a Rangers fan, I’m very excited. Also as a Rangers fan, I’m quite confident they’re going to use that #2 pick on some guy that every other team has at like #15 in the second round.

The BSG finale is imperfect and nothing in the 4th season is as strong as the show’s best moments from earlier seasons, but I’ve always thought the finale was better that its reputation suggests. In particular I’ve always thought that Laura Roslin’s death was beautifully done. 

I mean who HASN’T read the Funbag on the toilet before?

Christ this looks terrible. It’s mind-boggling that Warner Brothers has DC’s entire catalog of characters and stories to work with and yet they keep churning out the most boring fucking takes imaginable. So edgy! 

Damn, if only there had been a crazy talented infielder and outfielder available in free agency that the Yankees could have signed. Too bad the team is so poor they couldn’t afford it.

Federal authorities instructed Mark Cuban not to comment on a local police investigation?

I think he’s shown himself to be a lot more tactically sophisticated that people assumed, especially in the away wins against Spurs, Chelsea, and Arsenal. His one fault that cost him against Liverpool and Wolves was rushing star players back from injury, where they then either underperformed or reinjured themselves,…

Hard agree. The not-so-new-anymore Yankee Stadium fucking sucks - overpriced, shitty atmosphere, and actually has fewer seats (but more luxury seats!) than the old stadium.

The full budget proposal also cuts, or fully eliminates, just about every federal program that benefits the Rust Belt. These fuckers’ naked contempt for the people who elected them out of a desperation born from 40 years of neglect from the federal government (also some racism, tbh) will never not shock me.

Great piece. I’ve been thinking about how weird dreams are a lot recently, mainly because I’ve been traveling a lot for work and when I’m on the road I both don’t sleep well and have super weird dreams.

I thought the food at our wedding was fucking great (as you noted, we picked it), but we also only got like 5 minutes to eat before we had to make the rounds of saying hello to every table of distant relatives.

There are names that provide a more immediate chuckle, but Deicide Huxtable is the darkhorse candidate that really sticks with me.