My guess would that the whole thing was kind of kept secret. It might raise problems if it were revealed that Leia is Vader’s daughter, and Luke might have decided that not training people to use the Force is the best way to prevent any more Sith from emerging. As far as anyone outside the core cast is aware, Luke is…

Heffelfinger steamrolling Harvard’s flying wedge in 1892.

I would have said Dwarf Fortress, but yes.

Right, but my point is that it’s absurd that a couple of islands that actually belong to Denmark (or maybe it’s just the Danish king, whatever) get to be taken seriously for these competitions. You might as well let the Vatican have a team.

I’m as much for fighting sexism as the next person, but you can’t really complain about being left out of a profile of talk show hosts if you aren’t currently hosting a talk show, can you? Rather than attacking Vanity Fair over not including someone that doesn’t belong there, why not direct your anger at the networks…

So, I’ve got to wonder - are articles like this meant as satire of the minute tea-leaf-reading and colossal over-reacting that’s characteristic of European soccer journalism (and, to a lesser extent, sports journalism in general), or is Billy just unhinged himself and projecting it on to various teams and fandoms?

The irony being that choosy moms read ingredient labels and choose real peanut butter over peanut-flavored hydrogenated soybean oil. Choosy developers also choose better image formats.

How do the Faroe Islands even have a team? That’s like Terre Haute, Indiana having a national team.

I remember reading once that Playboy was the reason Esquire dropped its nude pictorials - “Playboy out-titted us”, according to some publisher or other. Now it seems that other magazines are out-not-titting Playboy.

I drink my coffee black and I wish I had more psychopathic tendencies - psychopathic tendencies have also been shown to trend positively with things like rapid career advancement and (at least for men) ability to seduce. Well, another one to chalk up to “correlation does not imply causation”.

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.