In the post-hot take sports world, I know a lot of people are rushing to defend this decision, and I get it, I do. But I just find a league with the KD-Westbrook Thunder and the Curry-Klay Warriors — two really good teams that both have a good chance of winning the title — much more interesting and fun than one…

It’s worth saying that from the standpoint of a rank-and-file union, this system is good; it rewards veterans and spreads wealth rather than concentrating wages in the hands of a few superstars.

The problem with this discussion (not just your essay but writ large) is that people are talking about their idealized form of affirmative action rather than the actual affirmative action that is practiced at many colleges and universities, particularly the elite. Colleges game the affirmative action system like they…

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Yeah that makes sense. I just always end up feeling like the weak link in competitive multiplayer games, but I don’t have the time to play them enough to get good.

I’m not sure what you mean by “at a high level.” In general, multiplayer gaming still has this broad problem: what makes games fun for people who play them a ton makes them totally unwelcoming to people who can’t or won’t devote the necessary number of hours to absorb all this stuff.

perhaps we were losing because we didn’t have a formation, I was the only support, nobody was tanking or flanking, and it seemed like everyone assumed that our seventh teammate, Casper The Friendly Ghost, would push the payload

This is why I can never get into games like this: everyone is required to think in terms of…

How about “because increasing representational diversity in fictional universes such as comics and video games is not a meaningful way to create actually meaningful social justice in the real world and the obsessive focus on same distracts us from the interests of actually-existing humans from marginalized…

Bill Maher constantly talks about skepticism and rationality but he believes that you can cure AIDS with homeopathy.

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move the 3 point line back
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You mean the guy who got his liver exploded the last time he fought in a cage?

Good movie, great aesthetic, but they flub the ending.

One of the casualties of the endless repackaging and marketing of nostalgia is the idea that you’re supposed to move on in life - that there are things you’re meant to love for awhile and then to grow past. But the current financial architecture of the arts and media industry is set up to deny that idea, because the…

You guys get that Hillary stayed in into June and said she was doing it because Obama might get assassinated, right?

If you can easily make a football-throwing motion while wearing a suit jacket, it’s too loose.

In other words, sources are valid when they confirm your version of events, and invalid when they don’t. Got it.

Boy, it must burn you up that I get published the places I get published now, huh.

That is factually untrue. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/…

She was the single most important advocate of the Libyan intervention, which has thrown the country into brutal chaos and has given ISIS a safe harbor in Northern Africa. The single. most. important. advocate.