The dick riding here at the root is phenomenal...

Watching Lakers fans’ attitudes devolve from brash, haughty bravado to finger-pointing, pearl-clutching and just flat-out whining has been the sweetest fruit.

There’s more black people at Veiled Prophet Ball than work at the AV Club

The fact that a bit of hyperbole, said to a ref while trying to illustrate the size difference between two players, has been made into a scandal gives another reason for people to think the WNBA is a joke.

“Woke culture” will never actually silence guys like Rogan, but we do have to say, if white men shut up for a bit, it’d be pretty damn peaceful.

this whole Tig is Hot narrative is, baffling

Defund the Police!!!!!!! - but wahhhhhh the subway is unsafe for my woke ass.

While we’re being fair, let’s recognize the Southern Poverty Law Center for what it is.  It is a political organization that unilaterally labels any groups they disagree with as “hate” groups.  The NY Times, NPR, the Washington Post and other major left-leaning media outlets have all shredded the SPLC’s credibility in…

As long as she agrees to read the audio-book in that shrill, exasperated lunch-mother voice.

Salma didn’t do it for the money...

And if he was doing this today he’d be shit on by the Root (and black twitter) for his respectability politics.

“Celebrities” mean way more to the media than they do to everybody else. You’re the only ones trying to prioritize the off-duty exploits of a handful of average entertainers as worthy of attention.

See, I’m selfish.  So the “worst possible time” to me would be “right before my order was ready.”

Sam Barsanti is the kind of person most people would climb a tree to get away from.

*sing*
“Gimme a crotch with crabs, bulbous beautiful crabs!”

Gotta be the hamburger in “Better off Dead.”

So...he talks about cancel culture too much and he needs to be silenced?

and you care about how politics affects actual people

Your commitment to this bit of “how could Richard Nixon have been elected when no one I know voted for him?” is impressive.

I realize it fits in with the ethos around here, but the title of her book already outed her as a supercilious asshole.