“Two days ago, the last word on Harold Baines would have been that he had no real shortcomings. Today, he’s been reduced to nothing but shortcomings. If the committee wanted to respect what he accomplished, it should have left him alone.” Tom Scocca on Baines deserving better than the Hall of Fame.

As far as de-escalation goes, this wasn’t even a hard one. This wasn’t a person with a weapon or something. This was an exhausted mom who needed some empathy (and a seat, WTF NY?). As someone who de-escalated a scissors brandishing kid today, weak game NYPD.

What would be great, is if the arresting officers were hit with that “Acting in a manner injurious to a child” charge. 

I. CAN’T. EVEN.

It was into the third quarter by the time we got to the logistics of actually even getting the X-rays, and then they were less than readable.” The reason? “It was probably a dated piece of equipment, or what have you,” Tomlin said.

Surprised Ben didn’t just go in anyway. He seems the type of guy to do that.

But I bet Babe Ruth could eat a sack of pig assholes, a Sinclairian delicacy of the times—How many could Ottavino get through?

Oh boy, I can’t wait to see the Dead Letters generated by this article.

as usual, The Onion nails it:

That seems like a much more likely reason for the business failure but if the lazy ass owner want to scapegoat liberals go ahead.

“You know who loves ice cream? Kids. So let’s sexualize the hell out of our business, driving away parents of kids. It’s a win-win!”

Yeah, his complaints are tinged with bit of, “You idiots aren’t recognizing how clever my name was! That was literally the whole business model!”

I’d like to see some evidence that these are actual liberals or left wingers that are offended, and that its connected to their politics. Because it sounds like he just annoyed the usual busybody crowd that literally every town has.

Everyone loves the invisible hand until it slaps them in the face.

Generally when i think of “people who clutch pearls over a cow’s butt” i don’t think “radical liberals”.  Unless my mom has changed political affiliations recently.

Expecting a GoFundMe campaign reaching out to all those RealAmericans® across the rural parts of this country who also hate those “extremist radical liberals” to dutifully fund his retirement.

“He was 15, she was 16…in a relationship,” Minaj said. “But go awf, internet. Y’all can’t run my life.”

The fact that Paul Ryan worships at the alter of Ayn Rand should have been the first major red flag that he was a hypocrite and a fraud.

Meanwhile a woman is being held in Rikers without bail because she sat on the floor in a public office.