Lebron James, in so many ways, seems like an incredible net positive for the world.

I could never have imagined it when he was being profiled by ESPN when he was like 15 or 16 and I was watching it after school. It’s incredible.

I would be cynical since it’s something that was posted to his social media to make him look good, but I agree. He appears to be a good dad, who makes time for his kids even though he has a million projects he’s always working on. And he’s a good person, who donates more money than most of us would ever see in 10…

By responding to the initial tweet the way she did, isn’t Carrie Underwood kind of doing what she is criticizing Jessica Smetana for doing? That message is definitely not an attempt to “build up” another woman. Quite the opposite.

Taste in music is subjective. Just because one person says a song sucks, doesn’t mean it sucks to someone else. If you like a song, you like a song, and nothing anyone says will change that.

White people will appropriate and ruin everything.

I think this is the story where “claps back” officially jumps the shark, and goes away for a while.

Hello, I wrote a book about conspiracy theories recently with an entire chapter dedicated to the notion that conspiracy theories among Black Americans are often based in actual, real devastating and sometimes genocidal events. However, Farrkahan’s specific accusations of a massive depopulation scheme — the NOI has…

It's kind of depressing that you're not gray. 

(I will note here that I too am Jewish, and having spent 32 years on Earth, I feel fairly confident that I can identify both veiled and outright anti-Semitism.)

Where are the Reasonabilists when you need them? Zorp would have this straightened out in no time. Of course, he’d do that by using his volcano mouth to incinerate all of us, but still!

It’s well worth reading the full Hollywood Reporter piece, which goes into far greater detail. By condensing both the accusations and denials into a shorter piece, the version offered here—inadvertently or not—makes it easier to interpret it as disgruntled former employees making baseless claims. The original piece,…

Didn’t realize the Gruden red face bit was going to spread across the site.

One of my best friends since childhood married a man who we LOVED. He was a solid part of our friend group and we always raved about him to her. Fast forward 5 years after their wedding... he was arrested for almost breaking my friend’s nose, in front of their child. He had been physically abusing her for their entire…

I went to high school with a very sweet man who was active in the performing arts. We weren’t super close, but we remained friendly acquaintances for the next several decades. He went on to become an elementary school teacher. He and his husband abruptly had a murder-suicide several years ago.

Allow me to tell you all a story, and you make of it whatever you want...

None of them deserves a refund.

Daddy did always have a fondness for things that go very fast in a straight line but have trouble cornering. They could call it James Jett Field at Al Davis Stadium.

Considering the highest team rent in the game is around $6M, there’s still a huge gap to the $180M owed in stadium work.

It would be such a small dent but even a $5MM lease (assuming the Raiders would pay for renovations/redecoration between games) paid directly to the loan principal would save them a few million in interest payments which they could bankroll towards future payments on the principal, snowballing to a significant savings…

If the Raiders lease Memorial Stadium and somehow bail out the UC Regents and their almost-bankrupting of Cal with those moronic stadium renovations and usurious loan choices, they’ll go out of town as conquering heroes, so there’s absolutely no possibility of that option happening.