Yep, the true inheritor of Stewart’s crown is Samantha Bee’s incisive Full Frontal. I can’t even remember the last time I watched a clip of The Daily Show, much less a full episode.

He is emphatically unfunny and while I also doubt he wrote this tweet it’s in line with his particular brand of bad comedy.

Even though Trevor Noah probably didn’t have anything to do with the tweet, this post still reminds me of how downhill the show has gone since John Stewart left. It’s cringe inducing.

So a dead guy comes back to life once he lands in a city called Phoenix, but somehow Christianity deserves the credit? Bullshit.

How many times have sportscasters uttered a banal sentiment about “honoring our troops?” There’s a political calculus under that statement that never gets examined but that’s an endorsement of a political viewpoint. (And might even be a paid promotion.)

You’ll notice that people aren’t really on board the “stick to sprots” train if it’s a political viewpoint they agree with. Because what they’re really saying is “I don’t like being confronted by anything I don’t like”.

I know y’all get to decide on your own bear coverage, but the most important summer bear news is that Pedals survived the winter and is roaming New Jersey once again. Pedals is the hero we desperately need right now. Look at him! He walks like people, but he’s a bear!

h/t to ElephanTitus Andronicus for the idea

The fan interest generates the money. You’re paying for this. Now this money of yours is either going to the rookie or the billionaire owner. Personally, I’d rather as much of it as possible gets to the player, so long as I’m paying.

No. The average annual income of a person in Afghanistan is $1,100, so you’re absurdly wealthy by those standards too. It’s all relative. Everyone is aware of that without the need to call it out every time sports salaries come up.

My guess is civil forefeiture. One giant sweep of exotic cars means bank for city government. Civil forfeiture is the greatest act of injustice currently in the American legal system and nobody seems to care.

I want to be hopeful but one case out of the hundreds (probably thousands) that will amount to nothing doesn’t do much for me. Like most thing, as long as the majority of victims aren’t white men, America isn’t really going to be pushed to action.

He makes me laugh; King Cake Baby haunts in both sleeping and waking hours.

How else is he going to make his $19.99 installments for his Bowflex?

So the writer of the piece, Alex Kennedy, quickly brings up the rape allegation so he can brush it aside and move on to Winston’s work with teens at a football camp. It is just one of a brief list of examples of Winston’s previous, regrettable lack of “maturity”:

I mean it’s not a new or even particularly uncommon phenomenon for a rabbi to both believe in Israel’s right to exist AND want justice for the Palestinians. And it certainly is not an uncommon position for American Jews to hold. It has simply probably never gotten coverage like this. Strange, that.

They need to set up a Sexual Assault Task Force Task Force to oversee the work of the Sexual Assault Task Force. But just to be safe they should set up a Sexual Assault Task Force Task Force Task Force to make sure the Sexual Assault Task Force Task Force is doing their job overseeing the Sexual Assault Task Force.

You don’t know shit about Muhammad Ali.

No matter what happens I just want to say thank you to all the Deadspin staff. I started reading your articles about 5 years ago. Before that I barely paid attention to sports news, because I thought they were all like ESPN or SI. You guys helped me to develop a greater love for sports by showing them in a more…

“Well, you can’t just lock up all of them. It would be too obvious.” - Ferguson Police Department