Holy shit is that stadium empty! I assumed the first picture must have been taken before the game started, but the scoreboard don’t lie.  

For all the things to criticize Snyder for, replacing grass with artificial turf is not one of them. Playing on artificial turf results in more injuries than does natural grass. Grass is always preferred if it is a possibility.

More serious question: how is Snyder allowed to own an NFL team?

In a sport where head injuries are a continual threat and the inherent speed of the game makes every pass up puts the EMTs on notice, you’re going to get hopped up about mud being a hazardous working environment? Get a grip.

It looks like they played on the Chargers’ bed.

Isn’t this missing the best one?

“It’s still a kid’s game at the end of the day.”

The Ghostbusters reboot was honestly fine

He wants to try butt stuff.

Three things:

Anybody who has read a single goddamn story about this strike and still thinks it’s about teacher pay either doesn’t know how to read or is being willfully obtuse.

Two things have led to where we are:

Re: Blevin. On NPR in Chicago this morning, they had several quotes from cops talking about the (extremely justified) firing of Robert Rialmo. One of those CHUDs said: “What this firing says that, if you’re a cop, and you walk past a school, and you hear gunshots, you should just not go in. Because if you go in,…

The thing is that we ultimately get the leadership we deserve. The Kentucky Democratic Party fucked up because they assumed Bevin was such a goddamned clown that his opponent would be a shoo-in (I was in the state for that gubernatorial election that initially seated Bevin; I voted—a hell of a lot of other people,…

I want to beat that goddamned asshole Blevin senseless for that comment.

The thing people are missing about the strike in Chicago is that it isn’t just about pay; the CTU is only allowed to strike about pay (really?), so they have to roll all the real issues into one big “pay us more” strike. It’s about the myriad other things that are a clusterfuck in the CPS (and I’m sure they have this…

Everyone pray that the feds don’t save this city or we will be bailing failed states out for generations.

I’m from LA and previously worked in restructuring. There are a couple differences with LAUSD vs Chicago. First, Chicago and Illinois (who guarantees the debt and pensions) are in a much worse fiscal and debt situation than any other large municipality. Detroit was bailed out by city benefactors, auto, and feds.…

As a son of the Bluegrass, few things have ever stuck in my craw harder than the moment that Matt Bevin stood before the state assembly and claimed that the Kentucky teacher’s strike had caused a schoolchild to be molested that day. He was an angrier, redder-faced version of Maude Flanders with a receding hairline,…

Fuck I miss Splinter.