I don’t think she threw it, but there was something happening in the background which we saw at the weigh-in and Holm took excellent advantage of that opportunity already at the weigh-ins.

Man, Holm fought the perfect fight against Rousey. I thought the fight would be closer than a lot of the analysts put it, but it was still a brilliant performance by the way she controlled the distance and managed the clinch.

Screw that guy!

Not nearly enough on the Democratic side. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who is in the tank for Hillary Clinton, not only kept the number of debates to a minimum but scheduled them so as to attract the smallest possible audience.

Hi everyone. I’ve never commented on an open thread before. Please be gentle!

Hi guys. What wine goes with encroaching winter and profound despair re: the unendingly tragic state of the world?

Rousey is an Olympic medalist in Judo. She’s completely legit and to suggest otherwise is nonsense.

Ronda’s mom is the first American to win to take Gold at the World Judo Championships. I’m pretty sure Ronda would specialize in submissions and would be light years ahead of anyone regardless of when she started the sport.

Wow, almost a good post, but according to your logic, Butterbean was an Olympic-level boxer, or anywhere close to that. The “women’s sports” handicap aside, Rousey IS an Olympic athlete who faced some high-end competitors before MMA. And Sara McMann was an Olympic athlete as well, and Rousey trounced her.

A nice allusion to a famous French headline after 9/11 (I can’t remember which publication) that read “We are all American Today”.

Pretty much the only one on Gawker/Kinja.

Tyler, thank you for your sensible, not sensationalist, reporting!

Red cups and Black Friday and the War On Christmas aside, stories like this are what I love about this time of year.

Don’t forget the hundred+ people being held hostage...that’s even more horrifying because if this is ISIS, you know what they’ll do to them. And they’ll film it. Crazy fuckers.

He’s a 25th level Shitlord according to the D&D manual.

Some guy walked by me with a dog that licked my face.

Oh man, weddings are the worst. It should be expected that not everyone you know is going to be of the same faith. The priest at a wedding I was just in actually welcomed those of differing faiths, and offered to answer any questions they might have about the service which was really cool.

I'll not bother with the obvious statement (because I can't decide if you are trolling or not). I will say that it would be pretty awesome to have any John Williams compositions playing when I walk around somewhere.

Came back from Iraq and was discharged from the Army. Moved to Huntsville and started looking for jobs. Had a Manager at McDonald’s tell me they didn’t want to put up with PTSD. Very thankful for unemployment insurance and the rest of the social safety net.

When I was little I dreamed of playing a Star Wars game like this, but all I had was...