Ali did not dodge the draft. Dodgers fled the country, sought multiple deferments, feigned disabilities, or used friends in high places to avoid service. Ali stood before the draft board and articulated his objections clearly, and he was prepared to face prison time to uphold them. That is every bit as honorable as…

Feel free to make your point relevant by not just repackaging my point as if you were responding to it.

Feel free to substantiate your point with an example of an uncorrupted capitalist system in practice.

For all the myriad arguments against the death penalty, there’s only one honest defense of it, articulated here with remarkable candor by the D.A. of Caddo Parish, Lousiana, which kills more of its citizens than any other county in America:

The point is people are scared. Including you, obviously. Stop living so fearfully. You’ll be better for it.

Could it? Because it’s basically saying, “I like my wife and kids, but I love my closet.”

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What even is your fucking argument? You lived in France and you carry a gun so we should take your word for it? I hope you have time to reflect on the irony of having called people on the internet idiots after you get shot with your own gun.

Yeah we’ve tried. Washington D.C. passed a handgun ban in 1975. In 2008 the Supreme Court struck it down, which was also when the Court more or less cleared up the question of whether the 2nd amendment prescribes an individual right to gun ownership. Nowadays, if states want to prevent people from getting ahold of…

Maybe this isn’t a problem for you, but you sound like a rapist.

Starred for an image worthy of Keats.

Try working with anarcho-syndicalists. “I know the violent subjugation inherent in authority necessitates a system of decentralized, cooperative leadership, but I believe my contribution to a community-beneficent weal has been undermined by the hierarchal tendencies of the expropriative committee.”

What is it with war porn guys and the word ‘massive’? My first job out of college was ghostwriting WWII aviation histories for a guy whose name was pretty big in his little war porn niche. Whenever he returned my drafts I noticed he had a habit of using excess modifiers in general, but he had a special fondness for…

Well, actually, the rationale for tournament seeding really is just as simple as I make it. I’m not sure how you took my comment to mean “strong teams never ever lose to weaker teams.”

The idea of seeding is to cull the stragglers early on in order to make for a progressively more competitive tournament. You can imagine a randomized scenario in which the heavy programs—the Dukes and Kansases and Kentuckies—all knock each other out early on, and you wind up with a championship game that looks like…

I was incredulous when I read the headline—there are tons of very talented women out there making a living on country/folk/americana music—but then I realized the article was about trashville pop country dogshit. Who fuckin cares? Who wants in on that garbage?

Allow me to propose that no photograph of Sean Penn should go unaccompanied by Dean Young’s wonderful ‘Sean Penn Anti-Ode.’

Good God I am in love with every sentence Jo Ann Beard ever wrote. I know you’ve read this one, since it’s collected in that book, but I’m going to leave it here for any fortunate onlookers who desire to have their souls shattered today.

And most (all?) of the officials arrested today are FIFA members from Central/Southern American countries...