The runner-up headline for this blog was Bison Yeets Child Into Oblivion

I believe the correct jargon used by the kids these days is, “yeet”

The crowd really went cuckoo for Coco Gauff.

What’s going on here?

I’m not sure if he trembled, but he definitely blinked. And flinched.

I was actually just thinking this when I read about his doubling down on it. If you want to play up your Bipartisan Boomer cred, why not talk about Bob Dole or Jack Kemp or someone who is more fondly remembered? Or John McCain, we’re still at the point where it’s a crime against Discourse to pretend like he’s anything…

But in our current system, republicans are the ones smearing poop on the wall, then blaming everyone else for it, and then hiring their buddies to come clean up the poop on the wall.

I’m sure Coates’ testimony was compelling, well-researched, intelligent, thorough, and passionate. I’m also sure that it won’t mean, or change, a single thing in the Senate.

I’ve mentioned this before, but the fundamental problem with the rhetoric of people like McConnell (beyond the fact that, ya know, it’s in patent bad faith and designed merely to be repeated by people to say why, of course, reparations are beyond the pale), is that it confuses the issue of “fault” with…

If anyone needs confirmation on the lasting effects of slavery, read Sundown Towns by James Loewen. I have mentioned the book a lot here but it is mind blowing the efforts put forth to keep post-slavery black Americans down, and because it is about urban planning, homeownership, and segregation (which is directly…

The Warriors gave up a 31-point lead?

He tried to tell us:

I don’t know if the article author (Prentice Elliott) gets credit for the headline, or if someone else came up with it, but whoever did deserves some kind of award.

 https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/tyler-summitt-coming-into-his-own-as-a-head-coach_20170818083451942/792978892

Summitt Mounts, Peaks

“son of legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt” is doing a lot of lifting in his story.

So by the time this guy was 25, he had been married, was a D-1 basketball assistant coach and then a head coach, had an affair with one of his players, got that player pregnant, resigned from his head coaching job and then got divorced?

I have read many articles by you Gita and you have never seemed angry or trying to bait any one, I hope you keep writing about race and gender. I look forward to your next article, this was a very good read.

Your pieces always give me something to think about and I agree that it’s important to both:

Gita, thank you. I can’t say I always see eye to eye with staff writers, but I can wholeheartedly say that Kotaku is a better place for having you here and that your efforts make a difference, each and every day. Your perspectives matter and it makes all of us a little smarter, more empathetic, and wiser each read. Tha…