Man, fuck Fox News.

Be warned: I found out the hard way that having opinions about cats on the internet is reckless self-endangerment.

+1 shot every time the folk singer sounds sincere

The policy Yale enacted after the Calhoun debacle is helpful here (via Matt Yglesias):

Before you hit the “show more” button, this comment appears in light gray. My first thought was: “Damn, has Burneko been relegated? What did he do?”

Kwame Appiah has a way of talking about this I really like: if we want to be proud of our country, then we have to be able to be ashamed of it, too. And if we have public rituals for expressing pride, then it seems natural and reasonable to use them to express shame as well.

One giveaway is how centrists never give policy-based arguments, only politics and political strategizing.

Kant has this point about Aristotelian ethics that I’ve found really helpful in thinking through this stuff about allyhood. He’s considering what it means to care about one’s character as the reason underlying moral action (which is very roughly what Aristotle thinks, that you should cultivate the virtues in yourself…

There’s a lot buried in the assumption that this is the only question to ask. Organizations do a lot more than “function.” My university could certainly “function” without a biology department, but doing so would reflect some rather non-neutral assumptions about what we were doing.

Jesus, those last two lines. Great writing.

Right, they’re not selling the possibility of Brock Osweiler, Cleveland Brown — they’re just selling Brock Osweiler.

I appreciate the angry righteousness of this coverage, which does far too often go missing in sports analysis outside Deadspin. But I’d be interested in a more thoughtful account of balancing complicity. We’re all complicit in all sorts of morally awful practices, just by virtue of participating in global…

Surely the Mark of the Beast is a man quoting himself on napkins he had specially designed. In fact, I’ve decoded it:

CIRCUM CISION OFAMOS QUITO - 666, obviously, and what’s Jerry worth? 5 BILLION! Obviously, the cryptic message is that 5 billion is the threshold at which one becomes an agent of the end times and…

Yeah, but where did Richard Sherman go to college?
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I mean...I’d invest a hundred bucks in Darko Cherries.

I was not expecting this level of truth when I clicked on Deadspin this morning. Damn, man.

Honestly, when you put it that way, the question answers itself. I hate to be sympathizing with Chris Christie, but he’s there for the Nacho chili fries.

The polar opposite of Boki Junglady

Sources say she has requested a trade, wants to be the center of a team, and no longer restrained by tyrannical catcher Clayton.

Important fact: the truck was wearing a hoodie.