Well, first off, bs about the sales tax argument, the benefits of which do not necessarily trickle down given that their usage can be based on local and state priorities and that they are notoriously regressive. Ditto Social Security — if someone is relatively healthy working poor, pays into SS their entire working…

Sure. Except YOU brought up Serena relative to men in THIS conversation by reading things that weren’t there to allow you to grind an ax that did not need sharpening. No one else did. So I don’t think it is a problem for McEnroe necessarily to have said what he said. I think YOU shorhorning it into this conversation…

Yeah, bullshit on this whole “half the country” lie, which doesn’t even vaguely withstand scrutiny. People saying wrong things out loud isn’t “the case” just because you desperately want to believe it. Payroll taxes, sales taxes, and myriad other ways of paying into the system count too, and yet that “half the…

And womanhood barely tolerable.

You’re right — Giants are *only* top three (or four depending on the list — I was sloppy and was going by memory) but this “culture of cheating” bullshit about the Pats is just that given that we know that deflategate was a load of horseshit, leaving us with a nearly-decade-ago violation about where a guy could film…

Who gives a gaping fuck how many men would beat Serena? Jesus, do you people have to pay to get the sexist talking points playbook or does it come with membership in the club? 

And you really don’t think that’s precisely what she meant? We can argue over whether the writer should have been more precise, but at no point did I think she meant that, say, Serena is better than Jordan, or Tiger Woods, just because she did not say “tennis player.” Discussing a women’s tennis player and saying…

The Giants have had more players caught for PED use than any other team in the last decade.

I like you. We should be friends. Until one of us says something that the other vaguely disagrees with, then you are/I am a monster.

Jesus, we now apparently just use “troll” to describe any damned thing. There may be one or two others who can plausibly claim the title of GOAT, but it is hardly trolling to assert that Serena has locked that title down.

Emmert realizes that the NCAA is going to end up making scholarships multi-year commitments if student-athletes are required to stay for more than one year, right? Now I happen to think that is not only the right choice, but the only ethical and moral choice, but a whole lot of coaches suddenly will have to be held…

I’m a big African football fan, so take this in that context, but their win over Ghana in 2014 was impressive if only because Ghana had given the US fits in the past (and were legit semi-finalist material in 2010 — fucking Suarez.)

No, you really, really don’t. There have been hundreds of individuals and organizations that have done unbelievable work for racial and economic justice since the 60s and 70s. Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, community activists in nearly every city in the country who have…

You don’t have the foggiest fucking idea of what you’re talking about.

Why would you assume that I assume that GM’s comb through Deadspin? Is that really the only way you think public opinion on public issues works?  This is a public debate about a public issue. I find your annoyance to be far more grating than the continued beating of a drum that many feel needs to be beaten. The…

Yeah writers! Stop making an obvious point that really needs to be made because this guy is sick of reading about it!

KD: “A hot dog IS a sandwich!”

So, Hoovah?

I know it as Myanmar.

Except we are not talking about an arbitrary time frame. We are talking about the entirety of the 2017-2018 season up until now when the question on the table seems to be which team is the best in this season so far this year. And at this stage of the season, in that decidedly not arbitrary time-frame (words like…