See, I’ve never lived in the West, so that’s where my experience ends. I’ve always sort of thought (hoped?) things were mostly better out there (with a few glaring omissions, like in parts of Arizona).

To me, that’s the same thing ultimately, in today’s world. I in no way support the Confederate nostalgia nonsense, it’s as stupid as it is offensive, not to mention the very definition of Anti-American, but compared to the de facto segregation that still goes on in the North? The effects of racism on the North are…

The ignorance, I agree with. Sometimes, they are just so fucking oblivious to how they present themselves. I genuinely believe that many of those morons with the Confederate flag bumper stickers or whatever think of it as “heritage” and “pride.” They just happen to not care how that might make others feel, which is…

I don’t see that as proof of lack of racists in Northern governments. If the majority Northern politicians would benefit from those laws, I’m sure they would exist. A politician is a politician, and most are out for only themselves.

Didn’t read your post carefully enough. You brought up the “pride” issue. However, of your two Options there, A applies to both the North and the South today.

I 100% believe that

The war was 150 years ago. I’m not saying it doesn’t have long-lasting ramifications, particularly regarding racial stratification (it totally does!), but if that’s the reason we’re applying racist tags to the South but not the North, that’s a little silly. I as in Italy recently, and I didn’t go around thinking “man,…

I’ve spent a grand total of about an hour or so in Mississippi as I drove to New Orleans, so I can’t speak for there. But I sure as fuck have heard those comments from Northerners.

I would argue they’re better at ignoring it.

I didn’t argue that anyone said there’s no racists outside the South. I argued that people focus on Southern racism way more (or, at least, Northerners do), and are somehow blind to the problems around them.

Not to stand on a soapbox here (he says as he’s about to just that), but this is just another case of why I’ve always rolled my eyes at the “the South is so racist” comments that people make these days. There is plenty of racism in the North. I’ve lived for a good amount of time (roughly a decade or more in each) in…

I honestly stopped reading months ago. So, maybe you’re right. It could have improved.

It’s definitely possible, and similar situations have led to other talented people being unable to produce the same high quality work. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have mentioned how the show took a back seat while they made and released the South Park movie and now again with the Book of Mormon. They still do a great…

That’s one of the great ironies. You know Simmons from 15 years ago would hate what he’s become.

Yeah, I never enjoyed (or really got) many of references that Simmons makes. He has a knack for choosing fairly esoteric pop culture references that never fit my knowledge. I said before that Simmons is (was?) a very good writer. But that was one schtick that he relied too heavily on. We don’t need sports and…

The sad thing is that that’s the exact comparison Simmons would love.

I get your point, to an extent. I fear it’ll get to the point where I feel like the criticism has gone too far, and I feel like I should defend the guy a little (sidebar: I almost got there with Chris Berman. He was mocked so often here that I sort of felt bad. I kinda like Chris Berman, in the way one might like a…

I’ve always assumed that Buford does most of the leg work (and does it well! Especially scouting), but Pop has final say on basketball decisions.

I used to love reading Bill Simmons, but I first starting turning against him a few years ago when he decided to spend every other column writing about the Clippers. I found them to be such a boring team. Seriously, the most interesting things about them were when Griffin punched his friend and when Jordan tried…

I see you had as much fun as I did figuring out how to type “ç”. There’s a whole world of unused characters awaiting me!