You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Ain’t nothing wrong with those shorts except how society feels about a man in them.

Mr. Jacoby was arrested on voter fraud charges in 2008 while he was doing work for the California Republican Party, and he later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.

Republicans have been doing this for ages. Usually they use the Green Party to ratfuck and I suspect they are still doing that but also boosting Kanye to try and peel off a couple of percent.

Macaroni salad in the buffet of a Copper Kettle attached to a failing mall.

But it’s a dry hate.

Oh, look at the wee leprechaun!

As an old b&b floridian (yes, lower case) with some first-hand experience with that special subtropical crazy, you can add in-breeding as a contributing factor as well.  

You think knuckle dragging, slack jawed, jackhammer brained Florida drug addicts with multiple visits to the human impound facility and zero consideration for their fellow humans use sun screen?

Treat your body like a carnival ride for 20+ years and it’ll show. He’s right about the age where smoking, doing drugs or a has a habit of eating crap food starts to become visible.

This. In a few decades we will look upon the kings and queens rhetoric with deep embarrassment. Like black respectability politics, it will not age well. The appeal is understandable though. We keep thinking we can make up for racism by hyping our magicalness. 

refreshing take

It’s unprofessional courtesy. ACAB.

I brought up how Coates tried to address this some in his run on Black Panther when I reviewed it for LARB.

Its redneck aging. I grew up in the deep rural south and even though I am now 43 and moved away, whenever I come back to visit people there my age or younger look like they are a good 20+ years older than me.

I came here to say the opposite. Bring back 1970s cut shorty shorts. God knows he’s got the legs for it.

Why? Look at Lebrons entire outfit. Look at Lebrons walk...ALL, ESTHETICALLY CORRECT.

I think we could turn this comment section into call outs of favorite brunch spots.  

Dude is 6'9" and 250 lbs, those shorts on regular people would be Hammer pants.

The only people that have to SHUT THE FUCK UP are white people. Every single motherfucking one of them.