Brek, Shea, Kaká, is how I would try to translate my morning routine while traveling abroad.

This week also saw Scotland allow agender identification as a legal status (ie passports and such) and for trans folk they can change their gender on their birth certificate as easily as their name now (ie no more panels deciding whether or not a person is male or female).

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

The answer to your question is Title IX. The school had a duty to provide her assistance and investigate her claims. It failed.

If I’m reading this correctly, the victim did go to the police. The rapist is serving 20 years for the conviction. Their completely valid suit against the university is that they refused counseling services to the victim (likely in hopes of shutting her up so their athletic program wouldn't get more bad press).…

Two separate, very meaningful, games were played yesterday. I learned this one trick that the media hates: If I don’t want to read something, I don’t click on it, then I don’t read it.

I have a harder time explaining Michael Jordan’s moves as owner Charlotte to my 7 year old than I do explaining homosexuality. He understands that it’s okay that a guy can be in love with a guy, he has no idea why Jordan chose Marvin Williams over Chris Paul and neither do I for that matter.

Great to see the NBA and other organizarions Raleigh behind the LGBT community.

Crap, I fell for it again. Why do I always read these types of articles thinking that I’m going to find the magic solution to making myself a morning person? My internal clock is just not wired to make me a morning person, and my attempts to rewire it, based on countless articles, have been very temporary and…

I think it also needs to be mentioned that the “baby in a well vs global warming” straw man is predicated on the (asinine) idea that human beings only have the capacity to care about (and focus on) one thing at a time, and that we can’t compartmentalize the things we care about into “long term” and :short term” boxes.…

+18 ft

I rarely rant about things like this but I’ve dedicated my life to it.

“Hey, great win out there.”

For the love of pete, can we PLEASE stop using Flash? The videos almost never load, and most often crash your browser. If it’s the last thing Gawker does (and it might be), let’s bury Flash in the annals of history once and forever.

+1 Ray Hudson “Orgasmic!”

I dare somebody to do a deck of Charizards at an unofficial tourney one of these days...and then reap the swag from all who look on.

Goddamn