Gotta say, this whole scandal is doing a great job of exposing how much influence the Chinese government apparently has over corporate America. And/or how paranoid media outlets can be about maintaining a pretense of neutrality.

I mean, Ayatollah Kohmeini’s been dead for 30 years, so that might raise some eyebrows.

Well, there’s some legal precedent saying companies HAVE TO prioritize their investors over everything else.

So... this is the journalism version of a multi-level marketing scam. That sucks. What’s the over-under on how long it takes for this to fail?

The bad guys in baseball—the worst guys in an ownership club that definitionally excludes any actual good guys—are the tightfisted owners of “small market” teams, who are always either saddling their teams with competitive disadvantages, or underpaying players who deserve a larger cut, or both.

And now I’m somewhat disappointed that the Jays have a decent-enough-to-not-be-worth-firing manager.

Well obviously you should be cheering for the Cardinals because the Orioles used to play in St. Louis.

Eh, not quite sure that’s quite the most absurd racing accident I’ve ever seen. For instance, there’s this X-Games rallycross incident wherein all four cars screwed up on the first turn, one was totalled, another was DQ’d and the top two move on so it was the entire race:

I mean, it’s not too hard to see why they do it. Right-wing media has spent ages painting Democrats as evil communists hell-bent on destroying the country from within. If a heavily Democratic state like California is doing well for itself, it kinda jeopardizes the message.

I remember a course I took in university that was ostensibly about media ethics, but for some reason it spent the first third of the course talking about why the philosophy of the industrial revolution was trash. Anyway, as evidence that said philosophy was trash, one thing that came up was that homelessness used to…

Okay, I’m gonna name 10 QBs and you’re gonna tell me which one(s) you’d take Kirk Cousins over: Tom Brady, Carson Wentz, Drew Brees, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Phillip Rivers, Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson, Matt Ryan, Jimmy Garroppolo

Eh, can’t feel too bad for Miami sports fans, Marlins and Dolphins might be dismal right now, but the Marlins have won a World Series more recently than the Mariners have made the playoffs, and the Heat have won three NBA championships since that World Series. Plus the Heat and Panthers are still a middle-of-the-pack…

Meanwhile up here in Canada, we had a surprisingly successful tournament over the summer with the GT20. Although it might be a bit less surprising when you account for the fact that about 1 in 20 Canadians are ethnically Indian.

I really hate how people of the internet keep misusing the term “satire.” That word implies more than just being slightly joke-y about things.

No, Wildcat, Tim Tebow did not drag the Broncos to the playoffs, he mostly happened to benefit from a weak division, a weak schedule and a defensive hot streak. Statistically, he was just about the worst QB in the league. Including Kyle Orton.

And the fact that he had a 7-figure NFL contract to look forward to probably didn’t hurt.

Of course Bill Laimbeer was coaching, even in other leagues it’s not really a basketball fight unless the Pistons are involved.

God, I am so sick of hearing people complain about the homers.

If I haven’t convinced you by the end of this conference that Hyperloop is the most glorious transportation opportunity of our time, then I’ve failed.

Trubisky completed 26 of 45 pass attempts, for a miserable 228 yards, plus a pick