That’s an incredibly interesting question, actually! Since I have worked and probably will work again in a related field, I tend to look at these things rather dispassionately, but for drama’s sake, how should he (and similar people) be portrayed? I guess my initial reaction is that, if there may be a “useful idiot”,…

I cried when a bunch of out-of-town millionaires working for an out-of-town billionaire who all pretended to care about region and/or locality were not able to beat bunch millionaires working for another billionaire pretending to represent a different region and/or locality at a game for children.

This is what you get for getting your employment law advice from the Deadspin comment section.

These figures are misleading as fuck because they

She should play everyone in a biopic. Hillary, Bill, Chelsea, James Carville, Boris Yeltsin, Newt Gingrich, Socks the cat...

Pretty much all of US hip-hop culture was Columbused from Jamaica anyway.

I think, I think, he means that he enjoys reading the books but doesn’t like how Proust is such a Revered Yet Difficult Author that it’s now impossible to experience Proust without buying into the mythology, to a certain extent, and how any conversation about In Search of Lost Time inevitably devolves into a…

It’s because they’ve lost understanding of the word “role model”. A role model is someone from whom aspirants, usually children, can learn a particular role. Parents, at least traditionally, are the primary role models for gender roles and interpersonal relationships. Athletes are role models in their respective…

Wait, this can’t be - it flies in the face of the popular narrative that Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Oakland fans are the rowdy and dangerous ones!

Don’t forget that bit in “Moment of Clarity” where he admitted Talib Kweli is a better rapper.

This is the funniest thing I’ve read on Deadspin in a while. Of course if colleges made giving players a real education a higher priority than winning football games the athletes would be better off. But colleges don’t bring these guys in to give them an education, they bring them in to play football. Encouraging them…

Speaking of which, what happened to this year’s Why Your Website Sucks: Deadspin?

It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of people didn’t realize that Eastern and Central time zones have the same feed for recorded programming.

I disagree, for it to really count as breakup sex both people have to know it’s breakup sex. The situation you describe should be called “dumping sex”, because the unaware partner is about to be dumped.

That’s principally because Jezebel has realized that casting aspersions on allies generates more discussion (and hence pageviews) than actually supporting the movement.

The re-follow is a great shade tactic, mostly because of its latency. It tells your shade recipient: At one point, I didn’t fuck with you and you didn’t even know it.

“Wonderwall” is my proof that rock is dead, because it’s been 20 years and it’s still the defining “sensitive guy” song. That would be like somebody trying to impress girls by playing “Help!” in 1985.

Brand loyalty is for suckers, but sticking with a brand because they offer you want you want at a price you find agreeable is a reasonable strategy. Yeah, if you keep buying iPhones even though you hate them that’s pretty dumb, but otherwise satisficing (as opposed to optimization) is actually an excellent consumer…

This isn’t very specific advice. The article I need to read is, “How To Be A Gracious And Fun Platonic Wedding Date When You’re in Love with Her But She’s Already Turned Down Being More Than Close Friends”