This article isn’t about that. This time. 

No one in this essay stated that the Pelicans owed the Lakers.

Whatever. Point stands. All the bench clearing brawls in baseball and even the old men get angry and violent. Must be the game and the sociopaths it attracts. 

How long did basketball put up with Bobby Knight?

Honestly, a lot of these idiots know they’ll never be millionaires. They just have some weird preoccupation with the notion of “meritocracy.” Probably because, while they acknowledge they’ll never be the 1-percent, they believe somebody somewhere is preventing them from being a member, thus, not following the…

I mean... it is something. But, like, I don’t need to have the same conversation about it several times each and every day. 

I know, for me, I follow just enough to maintain casual conversations about football throughout the week. The biggest regret I have about losing interest in football is that you quickly learn how often men in this country are incapable of talking about anything else. I’m already socially awkward, so when someone talks…

Trump’s populism is what won him the states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that had been solidly behind a candidate like Obama. Sanders’ populism would’ve had a very good chance (obviously better than Hillary’s) to have kept those states. It also would’ve played well in places like Ohio and Florida.

It’s white people trying to “check” their “privilege.” After all, the characters in Office Space work jobs that various minorities think they would love to have. What people miss when they criticize Office Space or Fight Club for “caviar” or “first world” problems is that those movies actually do a really good job of…

Yeah, the irony has always been that Trump is often right about the media, but for all the wrong reasons.

Not that I really care if you like anime or not, but if you ever get a hair to give anime another shot, go for Cowboy Bepop. It’s got justttt enough anime weirdness to, you know, be anime. But it never really crosses that line into “What the fuck guys?” Plus it’s character-driven without being slow or boring. It’s…

He lets ghouls like Dorsey and Peterson and Rubin blather on incoherently for hours about their childish ideas all in the name of “Just keeping an open mind bro.” But then he had Johann Hari on talking about the really extremist, far-fetched, wingnut theory about how depression is a symptom of people not having real,…

This ignores that there is, somewhere, undoubtedly the “Lebron James of Janitorial work.” A janitor so skilled and adept at his/her job that they make other janitors look amateurish. But those skills are not valued by “the market.” Lebron James is simply “worth more” because he happened to be born with the ability to…

Go open a business and make “an unlimited amount of money.” Tell me how that goes for you.

One of the interesting things about Elway’s choice of QBs as a “knower” is that all the QBs he’s chosen are nothing like him as a QB. Elway was sort of ahead of his time as a mobile QB who could extend plays with his feet and improvise. Up until Aaron Rodgers came along, I honestly thought Elway was the most…

Some people should get paid more than others. I actually believe there should be some kind of meritocracy in place. I work hard and I’m pretty good at my job, but I get paid the same as lesser performers in my position, and that does kind of drive me nuts. But nobody in any business is worth 1000x more than any other…

The problem with your criticisms of “liberal” voters is that many of the options provided to liberal voters are just moderate Republicans. I get it that moderate Republicans are, at the end of the day, preferable to hard right Republicans. But I don’t understand why it’s wrong to demand that Democrat candidates…

This sounds about right. Great response. 

Yeah, there’s a perception that a lot of people who support the rich getting richer don’t understand that they support the rich getting richer. Or, at the very least, know their politics support increasing wage inequality, but still believe they will one day be the 1-percent themselves.