Yeah, and maybe women just aren’t interested in professions like software engineering.

That’s not the way I learned it. You start with a city-state, then you clear out barbarians and send out colonists. Before you know it you’re developing nuclear weapons.

I hate this shit so much. 1) Like Dan said, it’s a sex reveal, not a gender reveal. 2) I hate the adherence to the binary blue for boys, pink for girls element that seems essential to the stunt 3) I hate the idea that public consumption of a pregnancy, totally for internet attention, is now just a reality of having a…

Is that you, Progressive Liberal?

Wow, that sounds inviting: St. Louis in the dead of summer, Lance Berkman, and a stadium full of passionate Christians.

No, BS and others, Ted Leonsis did not use a permanent marker or actual Sharpie™ on the whiteboard. I just used “sharpie” lowercase because I couldn’t come up with another word for magic marker and figured that would make the point without repetition. I see now, because of input from BS and others, that “sharpie” is…

I’ve listened to all the episodes of this podcast and have LOVED it, especially when he uses the life of a person at a given place and time to illustrate the changes occurring. Outstanding work.

That time he sent Brad Lidge to hell.

They’re not talking about how corporations should be taxed at higher rates or being pro-choice. Their liberal-ness boils down to don’t be an asshole to other people.

Last thing people want is political leanings intertwined with their sports

Except that most of the “liberalness” of ESPN has been “Hey, don’t be racist or sexist, especially in public.”

I’m still waiting for my son, Matt McGorry, to weigh in.

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I have spent all year unwittingly torturing the DC contingent at Deadspin by telling them I thought this year was going to be different.

“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

Man, if you don’t want to vigorously cuddle Demarcus Cousins then I don’t know if you’re even a mammal.

This is a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible take. WW2 was atrocious. I had never been as excited to go see a movie as I was for WW2. I was 16 and the exact person the movie was marketed to. It was the first time in my life I was truly disappointed by something Hollywood had made for me.

Counterpoint: Clerks 2 fucking sucks.

Ping of the puck going off the post woulda been my number one. When I played I almost liked hitting the post as much as actually scoring.