Yeah, there’s a difference between being kind (not kicking George Bush in the balls when you encounter him no matter how much he deserves it) and choosing to hang out with one of history’s greatest pre-2016 monsters in social situations.

Oh no doubt. Nixon begat Reagan, who begat Bush the Elder, who begat Bush the Lesser, who begat Trump, who won’t beget anyone because there’s not going to be a fucking country left.

He also helped pave the way for the current president, by lowering that bar.

I got flamed to hell and back on Splinter for saying this, but I’ll say it here too, because what the hell. George W. Bush was a profoundly awful president, both in terms of domestic and foreign policy. He was, without question, a criminal of great magnitude. He was not, however, aspiring to become the dictator of a…

MR: Where’s Jokic from? Serbia?

I loved his early work with Chris Bosh and Sam Cassell.

Eh, posting things to a locked, private social media account restricted to trusted friends and family is not meaningfully different from sending an email to a private mailing list, or just talking to a group of close associates around a dinner table. It’s fine to expect those people to keep what they hear private, and…

5 minutes from the blog being posted to victim blaming, solid work

Well thank god you’re not a celebrity, life would be so boring.

It’s been said elsewhere, but that is not sustainable behavior. Once matches start being stopped or called off altogether, then the only people FIFA listens to (the people paying to advertise during or show those matches on TV) will feel the squeeze.

And that’s a fine outcome. I’m just pointing out that the governing body needs to have England’s back on this, if the outcome is in any way favorable to Bulgaria or unfavorable to England then this particular form of protest will be counter-productive.

This gives a whole new meaning to the nickname “The Bulgarian Brute”

So, what you’re getting at is,

Bulgaria is anal country.

Seems a lot more likely they’d end up just having to replay the match in an empty stadium, or something like that.

Fun fact: [long story about anal sex and geography]

Fun fact: the English verb “bugger,” which means “to have anal sex,” derives from “Bulgar.” A heretical medieval sect named the Cathars called on its members to eschew having children, but did not proscribe sex; this meant lots of anal. The Cathars were most prominent in the borderlands between Hungary and the…

So this only really works if England doesn’t lose as a result of this. If it counts as a forfeit then you’re just incentivizing racist fans to be racist, it’s a free win.

I remember in my hometown of Bismarck, North Dakota, one of the local high school basketball coaches, who was a single guy, became an exchange student host. His first exchange student? A 6'9" kid from Norway. Hmmm...

I did and then I went to San Antonio State but decided that school wasn’t for me. Ended up in a trailer and then jail. My girlfriend left and coach moved to Philadelphia. But now I own a big piece of land... where I hunt the most dangerous game of all.

I guess it’s just a matter of time before we read about Briles being fired from a Pop Warner football team.  And then being fired from Popeye’s.