Gonna guess your folks didn't explicitly hand those to you.

I think there's a *distant* possibility that Thomas may drift leftward without Scalia breathing down his neck. But it takes at least two points to make a line.

"The Hand That Feeds" is half of an awesome song.

I'm with Ricky here. If the truth is that a significant portion of your likely clientele would walk away if they were met with a trans woman, that's a valid reason to me.

I don't think anyone here has an issue with *Lonzo* Ball. If anything, he gets sympathy for being hyped too hard.

Who Mr. Ball apparently thinks was a model father.

The first-generation Kenyan-American thing would also probably surprise them.

Hey, I'm approaching middle age and I *still* gotta use special stuff to keep my face de-oiled and pimple-free. The idea of having insufficient body moisture is personally alien to me.

Posing in his pimp coat prototype there.

Starting with the definition of stallion…

Prior knowing what "ashy" was, I'd look at that and wonder "does he *know* he has a visible wasting disease?"

I'm not angry at the kids (yet). I just feel sorry for them. Especially if they do poorly - failing out of the NBA is bad enough without your dad promising the world you're the next Jordan.

So if Batman has the Bat-Signal…what is the Hotep-Signal a silhouette of?

Ali was a Strong Black Man, Lavar Ball is a Strong Black Man, therefore Ali=Ball. This argument doesn't go much deeper than the Transitive Property of Strong Black Men.

Right, they're selling the legacy of MJ the basketball player. He is much, much more tightly bound to the brand than Jobs ever was to Apple. There quite literally *is* nothing to sell without MJ - Apple never needs to mention Jobs name again.

"…separate the Balls."

Because Apple sells a lifestyle, not a person.

So…not even the same sport? Damn. Much rather be in basketball than gridiron given the choice, of course, but still.

I doubt he's cutting the kid out, but I also doubt he's just collecting a caretaker fee. What I *do* know he's doing is setting the bar for his kid so high that anything short of being a perennial All Star will look like failure - and he's OK with that if it brings in some cash.

People buy iPods and Macs, not Jobs jerseys. Way more personal with an athlete.