*That’s another $23 billion dollars stolen from black students whose parents pay the same state and federal taxes as white students.*

On the Rooney Rule, if you’re going to add all that context on McNair’s comments, you might also remember that their GM for the first 11 years was Rick Smith

I was reminded exactly of this when I saw the pitcher chasing that bunt

Nostalgic for the era when  this website offered full time Barbaro coverage

What a shock that a lazy fat fuck writes for Splinter—his whole worldview is informed by his belief that people aren’t agents of their own destiny but victims of the forces of history, like some Tolstoy character.

This isn’t an ad—it’s a post by ‘Shep’ McCallister

The EU approach to regulating big American tech companies is to fine them randomly and continually, i.e. they shake them down instead of getting them to adhere to whatever regulation they make up on the spot and enforce after the fact.

The EU continually issues ad hoc fines on large American tech companies because they can’t figure out a way to tax them. These fines are usually on the order of billions of euros.

Calm down dude

Texas is appropriately carved into several different regions, I think

As someone who has driven through France, I can assure you they are just as impolite.

If you’re in the right lane, you’re under no obligation to adjust your speed. The one who bears 100% of the obligation is the person in the left lane, which should only be employed for passing cars in the right lane. And for no other purpose.

Every possible scenario you could consider under this paradoxical rubric is solved by adhering the rule that the left lane is for passing only.

Certain states have signs that say “The Left Lane Is For Passing Only” while others equivocate with “Slow Traffic Keep Right”, allowing the driver some discretion and subjective judgment.

This is a real life competition—like a news or sporting event—not a fictional plot twist in a scripted TV show

I mean, he was asked who would win the Women’s US Open and he casually said some “probably some Korean named Lee” and then that happened so, I don’t know what to say. That seems like a structural condition of the women’s tour

Credit where credit is due: a young lady surviving time spent with Ted Kennedy is impressive

*Carnac opens envelope*

I’m 38!

Well as common as you’d like those practices to be, there are plenty of folks who attended state universities or Ivies on scholarship (AOC’s Boston University is a private school btw) and then got jobs in investment banking or went to law school or went to med school or public policy school or even social work and…