I don’t think It was me who said The Wire “ruined” TV.

When you have to unironically quote the Unabomber to make your points, you’ve definitely lost.

Huh, well, that’s certainly... um.. pertinent?

As a big fan of original ska (Bob Marley, Desmond Dekker, Prince Buster, etc.) Millie Small doesn’t get half the credit she deserves for helping to build the genre. RIP

I seriously think folks like this* who head out every weekend to shoot weapons like this and other ones are looking for an opportunity to actually shoot a living person to see what It’s actually like. They get tired of shooting at painted targets, cans, etc. and playing video games where you kill thousands and want to…

Saying the victim, out of nowhere, declared himself to be a gang member is the “I think he smoked marijuana one time, so...” of this situation. He needed to make this guy as menacing as possible.

Let the smear/discredit machine begin.

From the linked article:

Not actually. According to what I just looked up on several sites, you can only make a citizen’s arrest If you actually witness the incident in progress. If you don’t witness it in progress, you have to obtain a warrant from a judge first.

Greg McMichael said his son was acting under the scope of citizen’s arrest and that he shot Arbery in self-defense.

Then why weren’t these savages beating the shit out of all those hipsters in Central Park and other areas?

I binged GoT so that might have something to do with my similar “eh” feeling about It (watching In pretty rapid succession rather than the slow reveal of episodes). I also binged Breaking Bad and feel the same way about that show: Ok In parts but overall...

It may be an actual term, but the only references I can find to It stem from a book called “Deaths of Despair” that came out last year about the struggles of the middle class and was pretty widely publicized. Now, sure, they could have read the book and borrowed the term but... I kinda doubt It. But, I guess It could…

Fundraiser, you say?...

Oh, I agree with you. He definitely wanted to keep his legacy Intact. But the rest of It seemed like coincidence. They should just say that.

I hope he doesn’t take anyone with him either, but he’s an anti-vaxxer and was recently suspended from FB for a brief time.

If he was/is as worried about his legacy against LeBron and as “pathologically competitive”, why not do it during Game 7 of that year’s series instead of during a championship parade which hardly anyone outside of Cleveland cared about?

So Jordan’s people called this guy the day before the parade (he says he took the redeye) and had him meet them (intentionally) as the parade was going on just so they could say “yes” as the parade was happening...

A small point, but...from the Times article:

“Probably”...?