I think this is pretty spot-on and is something I’ve been saying to folks for years now. It really hit home to me in the closing weeks of the 2012 election during the peak of the “unskew the polls” phenomenon. The rubes were eating this shit up as usual, but then it became obvious that plenty of actual power players…

Messi v Ronaldo actually holds quite a bit of water. Jordan does what he does by himself. LeBron makes everyone better like I’ve never seen. And you really can’t ignore how much better the league is now. I think I might concede that it may be more complicated to craft a team around LeBron, but if you do it right it…

He gets the benefit of the doubt because he’s the best player on the planet and wills his team to victory every playoff. “Cake walking through the East” ignores the fact that he has to beat professional basketball players that are giving everything they have to dethrone him. The fact that in the last 6 years, not one…

“Compliment her rack, or you’re fired!”

Asshole Republicans caused Duke to lose a game. For the first time in months, I’m remembering what it’s like for the world to make sense.

Make-up sets is the best.

It’s become close to impossible to a) keep the faith and b) get excited for longer than a half-season or so. I will never stop being a fan, it’s just too deeply rooted in my everyday life, but god fucking damnit they are so frustrating. Scot M is a talent evaluator extraordinaire (at least in comparison to the nitwits…

Aussie Rules when the refs still dressed like Colonel Sanders was the best.

Good stuff. Thanks for the information. Never heard of those before.

As is often the case for Harden, he lost her on a solid screen and decided to float on.

Just posted that article below. Seems prescient now that I re-read it.

In the 1960s, one of my neighbors had a taxi medallion, so he parked his work car, a yellow cab, on the street near our co-op. Back then, in NYC, most taxi drivers drove their own cabs and made a decent living at it. (This was a Jackson Heights co-op where apartments go for about $250K these days.)

Fucking good, Uber’s “I swear, I’m not a taxi service” Bullshit needs to stop. All these governments are just giving Uber a pass to completely ignore rules that everyone else has to follow is dumb. 

Fuck this guy.

The Bears Want To Trade Jay Cutler But He Might Be Calling The Shots

Free speech is protection from restrictions by the federal government, not private companies.

You do realize you’re defending a dude who’s blatantly and thoughtlessly used the N-word multiple times, right? Hell, you might be okay with that.

It’s nice to see someone get a real world penalty for internet hate speech.

“Those are some bad dudes. Why was she hanging around them?”

Ohhhhhhhh, now *this* makes it scandalous and makes him seem like a whiny cunt! Thanks for explaining the full story. Plus, that sucks. I think of examples like Robin Williams who apparently did a great deal for charities and gave a lot of personal time to help others. I saw Michael Moore use his personal time to meet…