Oh, sure. Just go ahead and play with my all my insecurities at once like that. No biggie; I wasn’t using them.

This is bullshit. If this were really true, colleges and universities would be falling all over themselves to add athletic programs for women and men alike (since nothing about this analysis is unique to women or women’s sports). But, in general, they don’t, because it doesn’t make financial sense.

Unions in Japan tend to be strongly leftist - many are affiliated with the Communist and Socialist parties of Japan, and they are sometimes seen as having questionable motives.

How much money does News Corp need? It’s not like he’s shaking down the Widows and Orphans fund.

They got everyone to take a pay cut because the show wasn’t doing as well in its primary timeslot; fair enough. But I suspect that things like Netflix subscriptions, overseas rights, and other things are handled under separate accounting, and now account for a much larger portion of the money the show makes. The…

It sure is. But I’m not the one you need to convince, and you’re going to have a hard time persuading the people you do need to convince if they think you’re a self-righteous outsider telling them what to do, or in such people.

You don’t need to convince me. You need to convince Muriel Bowser that not giving in to fan prejudice is worth losing the only platform with which she might be able to make a difference.

That’s very admirable of you, but don’t forget that your fellow fans support keeping the logo by a margin of something like 30 points.

What do you call someone that acts like a total homer, only is neither from nor lives in the team’s locale? If there isn’t a word for it, I nominate “Billy”.

The thing is, “Washington Redskins” is an institution in DC that many of them grew up with. What people hear when you say, “this name is racist and needs to be changed,” is not “let’s work together for a brighter, more equal tomorrow,” but, “something you identify strongly with is racist and your positive experiences…

I love a good political muckrake as much as the next guy, but come on. A far simpler explanation is that her whole stance about the name hasn’t proven popular with the large number of black Washingtonians who grew up with team and who, rightly or wrongly, don’t see much problem with name. These voters are her base,…

I could maybe see a new stadium deal with a secret or informal clause to reduce the use of “Redskins” or to change the name, but in that case Snyder won’t do anything and deny such an agreement ever existed. DC politicians are dumb enough to fall for this, though, so perhaps it’s a bit credible.

I think it’s more than that - as long as this dominates the off-season sports headlines, people aren’t talking about any of the actual fucked up shit that players are involved in - whether that’s concussions, drugs, domestic violence, dogfights or murder, that actually makes the NFL look bad by association. As long as…

Ronda, for all the shit you get for being a woman or being American or being the champ, I have to say you’re the most impressive combat sport competitor I’ve ever seen. Rock on.

To be fair, sidecars are kickass.

It’s not sacrilege but the melting ice will water down the drink as time goes by. If you’re the type that quickly drains your whiskey sour or what have you before that happens, sidecars may not be the drink for you.

Finally! The sidecar is such an easy, classic drink, yet one of the best, and one of the hardest to screw up. You should mention that there are two major schools of thought with the sidecar, the American, with a 3:3:8 (or sometimes 2:2:5) ratio of lemon juice, triple sec, and cognac, and the French, which is 1:1:1. I…

When you get the chair everything in your ass explodes out anyway, so they’re not going to stop just because that might happen before they pull the lever.

Tyson pretty clearly has some kind of mental problems, and for all his violence and aggression, he never really tried to justify his bad behavior. Mayweather says that women need him to beat them. And, also, Mayweather has enough friends in high places to stay out of prison.

Getting that first job can be a bitch, though. If you aren’t going to a top-tier, aren’t in a rich fraternity, and aren’t doing cool internships, it kind of ends up that grad school or shitty jobs are your only options because no one takes “critical reading and writing skills” seriously on a CV. Even for writing…