And Nazi Germany. The Nazis were all about those loyalty pledges.

My family moved here to escape from a totalitarian regime when I was a boy, and let me tell you how weird it was to go to the county fair my first week in this country and see people stand up as if on cue to salute the flag and the military hardware flying overhead.

Until the fucking World Cup rolls around, amirite?

They do, but the pledge of allegiance =/ national anthem

I think we are in rare company with requiring the Pledge in schools and some political events, it’s like us and China and that’s about it. 

But most countries have national anthems?

I can tell you that from an outsider perspective, many non-Americans view the pledge of allegiance and flag humping by Americans as being deeply weird.

So do you view his decision not to stand for the pledge as a positive thing? 

I am an old school kitchen hand, and I was told it was for presentation and also a sign that you used authentic shell-on shrimp and cleaned them yourself for to be most aesthetically pleasing. Back in the day you could only buy shell-on, or completely de-shelled that they would put through a tumbler to peel and…

The thing that adds to the weirdness, or maybe, driving the weirdness, is that no one over age 24 has grown up rooting for the Nationals. All those weirdo conservative elites decided, as adults with presumably existing baseball allegiances, chose to get obsessed about the Nats because they’re old white people who…

He’s a complete trash person, but if I recall he was not a half-bad high school wrestler. Anyone who was at or near all-state in Ohio as a wrestler could show out for a period in an MMA format. 

Yea this article is kind of embarrassing 

What in the fuck is this? Ben Jealous, who some Maryland Democrats have been slow to endorse after the primary because he supports *checks notes* Medicare for all. Who supports free college tuition? Who, in the 2016 primary endorsed *checks notes again* Bernie Sanders.

“I don’t feel so good,” mutters Corporal Peter Parker as he puts the whisky bottle he used to wash down the fentanyl on the coffee table in front of him. He has to self medicate because the Republicans have defunded the VA and the chronic pain and PTSD he suffers from isn’t getting treated.

OSU alum here. This is all obviously very disappointing to me on many levels. But fuck, how have these coaches not realized that the downfall is ALWAYS in the cover-up? Like, this shit happened several years after everything materialized with Penn State. It’s baffling to me that these coaches* cannot figure this out.

It’s not the worst bird logo in the AL East either. Toronto is a Blue Jay with a leaf stuck to it’s head. 

You’ve finally gone too far hating on the Orioles logo. 

The Orioles Logo isn’t even the worst bird themed sports logo in the city of Baltimore. Why gold? Why primarily purple? It looks like a 90s logo contest winner with a B inexplicably tattoo’d on it’s head (because that’s what it is). A freshman MICA student could design a better logo in the margins of their notebook…

I recently stumbled across this piece detailing how Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels predicts the rise of Trumpism (or something very much like it, anyway), by foreseeing the rise of a “retaliatory ethic” by the growing numbers of disaffected people who think that technology, industry, culture, and society as a…

Wellstone was a damn good one gone too soon. I just give Jordan the “most prominent” title considering his 2xNCAA champ and beating John Smith is a hell of a resume for a bat-shit congressman. 

I hate to my core that Jim Jordan is the most prominent representative of the sport of my youth in politics.

I guess it doesn’t help that wrestling and alternative reality conservative paranoia heavily overlap in the midwest. Still breaks my heart.