I’ve noticed that over the past two or three years “Why do you have to be so rude?” is really just the way people express that they just had their ass handed to them. When you’ve got nowhere else to go, plead for civility. Now sometimes, it’s totally called for. When Donald Trump inevitably starts saying your kid…

This song wrecked me the first time I heard it years ago; it’s wrecking me all over again now.

It wasn’t just about the helmet. There was a lot more to it than just a helmet. He called the GM a cracker. Even if they’d forgiven the fines, he was going to orchestrate his own ouster, one way or another.

I know it’s hip and cool and edgy to blame the Raiders for this, but I fail to see how they’re in the wrong. This ALL is 100% in Antonio Clown’s hands. 

I was under the impression that Comedy Central was exclusively a The Office marathon network.

If there’s anyone on earth who still has an actual answering machine, it’s Joe Piscopo.

I think you and I were watching different movies then. Because I thought it was extremely clear that Luke was fighting way out of his weight class, and that the summer camp intensive crash course was, at best, the only thing keeping him alive. He could sense the Force, and he could alter it. But had little to no…

From the Lucasfilms and Disney Motion Pictures milking machine:
The Rise of Skywalker
The Last Skywalker
The Jedi Strikes Back
The Return of The Last Jedi Skywalker
Rogue Jedi: A Rogue One Story
Revenge of the Skywalker
Star Wars: A New Jedi
Skywalker Awakens
The Jedi Menace
Skywalker: Another Star Wars Story
Attack of the…

There’s no denying the impact of The Slim Shady LP and “Still Dre” and “The Next Episode” are still bangers but Things Fall Apart is, by far, the best hip-hop album of ‘99 IMO. (I’d also add Murda Muzik with “Quiet Storm” to your list.)

That’s... well and good, but 1999 was the year of Dr. Dre’s 2001, Eminem’s Slim Shady LP, Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides, 2Pac & the Outlawz’ Still I Rise, and Slick Rick’s The Art of Storytelling. All of those have individual tracks that are better than everything mentioned in this article.

Because cable news is the pro wrestling of journalism.  I’m more concerned that the DNC bothered with her by allowing her on the debate stage.

For me the last season of The Wire was so bad that by the time the wrapup came I was sick of it. For the first time Simon put messaging and score settling ahead of character and story, and the results were pretty rotten. Just a huge, disappointing dropoff.

Season 9 of The Office beat the odds by somehow finding a new way to squeeze in a fifth and final baffling new characterisation for Andy Bernard.

My first live sports memory is the 1988 Holiday Bowl. I was seven. I didn’t know who Barry Sanders was, and, in fact, waited halfway through the second quarter before I asked my dad “who is the orange man?” He went for 5 TDs and 222 yards on 29 attempts. It’s like his fifth best game that year. He really was this cool…

I’m not making blanket statements about “boxing history” or including legendary defensive fighters like Willie Pep or others, but in my lifetime of watching boxing, Whitaker was the best defensive fighter I ever saw. Floyd was a close second, and no one other than Floyd was even in the same stratosphere. As others…

Philadelphian here please if you haven’t check the news someone is shot every day. I’m all for the ideas he has but he let a guy off on 3 years for shooting a store owner with a rifle. Thankfully he was retried and given a lengthy sentence. Non violent crimes I think we can all agree needs to be sentenced lighter than…

I think you are underrating how de-legitimized all title and governance shenanigans are in the eyes of casual fans, making Fury’s claim of being the real champion seem plenty plausible to most / just as real as any three letter belt.

Eh, the idea of a lineal champion is interesting, and honors the history of the sport. It’s certainly easier to follow than the alphabet soup of belts floating around. Tracing this list goes through almost every major heavyweight:

I’m baffled by the positive reception. Does nobody else think this movie absolutely sucks? The comedy undermines the scares and the stakes, the threat is fully established by the conclusion of the first act, the penultimate reveal is beyond dumb, and the twist completely destroys any possible allegory. It's a mess,…

Saw this last night at an early screening and…I don’t know. I feel like amidst all of the (nearly universal) critical praise, I keep seeing variations of “it works best if you don’t analyze it too much” alongside “this movie gives you so much to unpack,” often in the same review. And it’s like, which is it? I agree…