My favorite strategy for dealing with a racist joke is to pretend I don’t get it and ask them to explain.

It's funny because the average American can’t tell teams from the AL West apart.

You’re commenting on the Internet.

They have done studies on this, the number 1 indicator of whether or not you think college athletes should get paid or not, is your views toward black people as a whole. Its mostly racism. With jealousy a distant second.

Eh, I know enough of the “Murica” crowd (not from where I live now, but from where I grew up) that I really think it’s giving far too much credit to their senses of optimism and forward-looking thought to say they really sincerely believe they might be the beneficiaries of a tax cut for the wealthy one day. My…

Along those lines it’s always stunning to me just how many commercials are on TV for lotteries and scratch-off tickets. Governments aren’t just content to take money off of the gullible and hopeful poor, they’re buying adtime to make sure they take as much as possible.

Those are possibly easy things to tax because they’re not necessities. You don’t need to gamble, you don’t need to buy pot. You don’t need hotel rooms. (Especially if you’re the local people passing the tax on theoretically “someone else’s money”.)

Counterpoint: the comments section of any article where people working at McDonald’s are protesting and fighting for $15 an hour.

If Tim Tebow had skipped media day to attend class, this guy’s erection would still be going strong:

We’re constantly told athletics are a mere enhancement of the educational experience. We all know, at the highest level, that isn’t true. A coach saying they know “what’s best” for one of their guys insults our intelligence. Players are attending a university, not a football program. They should subject to the rules…

LOL. Yankee fans.

No, it’s correctly, understandably hateful, like every other Deadspin article about the Cardinals.

Their talented writers, editors, and photographers deserve so much better than this. It’s 20 years or so since the internet went mainstream but American newspapers still have no idea how to cleanly and attractively present their content. Look at two British newspaper sites, one highbrow in the Guardian and one lowbrow…

You leave out the consequences for his family if he doesn’t...

No public figure takes an apolitical photo with a dictator. But also: no one should suffer racist slurs! The former certainly does not justify the latter.

No problems with Salah posing and getting medals pinned on him by a Tyrant? Just Ozil because he’s an immigrant.

Or he knew full well the consequences of *not* doing the photo. (“Özil’s defense of the photo-op—“having a picture with President Erdogan wasn’t about politics or elections, it was about me respecting the highest office in my family’s country”—can read as weaselly over here in America, but then again Americans don’t…

Actually I figured out three solutions to this.

Three years?  I guess we’ll see them at the next World Cup then!