Remember when deadspin was fun?

Oh you’re citing Sam Walton’s children. Got it. I would say they didn’t earn anything, but their dad did and it was his money to give to them (at least after the 55% estate tax levied upon his death)

I hope so too. See you in Hell

This is called “begging the question”

Yes, the oily one

Agreed. I think he writes very eloquently in support of horrendous ideas

I’m not sure I’m picking up the syntax of your question

Why do you think I’m uncle tomming here, efc? Do you not recognize your old friend from Slate? The one that tells you to defer to your betters?

Patrick did a good job highlighting the immediate, urgent, tangible threat from the ocean while Albert did a good job diving into the nihilistic void that is our infinite prison of inevitable entropy. Happy friday

That’s great stuff, and I would never presume to comment on the internal politics of another country, but since you’ve presumed to comment on ours, calling it “criminal”, I’ll just say here that I don’t care about your mom, and I’d rather keep my tax money while watching her die and feeling nothing.

I would posit that “earnings” stem from some specific positive economic output created by someone—labor, turning capital inputs into more valuable outputs etc....output that someone else is willing to pay for voluntarily.

The current format—which punishes Wild Card teams in a way that the 1990s and aughts format did not—is as close to perfect as you can get

Rhetorically, it has rooted itself in a glib libertarianism rooted in pointing at big numbers in budgets and making worried sounds while ignoring what the studies and reports say their tax incentive packages, Medicaid cuts, and public school gutting will do to the minority constituents they claim to represent

Mike Trout is a reverse Kardashian--at this point he’s famous for not being famous

Deadspin 2005-2013?

Exactly, a great example of why we need tort reform.

Is fucking yourself legal under communism? Seems pretty individualistic

There would be no victims of record under communism

This Astros fan will still will never forget one of the worst moments of my life: October 17, 2005

They actually still have to play for third place before they can go home