What’s worse, when they do create brand new characters (which is rare these days), they are pretty much always white, and male unless being female is part of the shtick.

Cute. Now give the kids a rocket motor so they can see what real technology can do.

Perfect Kinja. Gawker can go bankrupt and dissolve all its assets, for all I care now. I have seen this comment, it has taken Kinja to the ultimate heights, and nothing further is possible.

His own, because he’s got dreams?

According to the last budget I saw, just the operating costs are about $1.7 billion, vs a little under $900 million for total receipts from fares and parking. Which means, ignoring capital expenditures like long-term maintenance and replacement (which, okay, that’s basically what they’ve been doing), as well as the…

Yeah, but “This guy in charge is doing an okay job, obviously not working magic or anything but all things considered probably better than most of the people who’d get tapped to replace him” isn’t going to get a lot of clicks.

In the northeast, at least, soccer is basically what lax bros played to keep in shape in the Autumn (or vice versa, the point is, every school had the same kids on both teams).

If kids think that’s what a wolf looks like they need to get out more.

Neither did Heinrich Himmler.

According to rumor, there’s a chance Simmons (or whoever they pick) won’t even sign with the Sixers because the team is so bad. There’s a money aspect to that as well, but the fact that someone is willing to give up millions in guaranteed money for a year just to avoid playing on Sixers should tell you a lot about…

Deadspin: the bandwagon-est sports site in the world!

In light of the pervasive awfulness of Philadelphia GMs this past year (and no doubt into the future), can we rename this to the “Philly Award”?

If a jersey tears more easily, it can be harder for opponents to control your movement by grabbing your shirt - plus there’s irrefutable evidence that the shirt was being grabbed in the first place (which should get called as a foul, even if it rarely is).

Because not every country fetishizes home ownership to the point that there’s such a clear advantage in buying. In many places ownership can actually be more of a liability than renting, and renters may be given more statutory protections than they do in, for example, the U.S.

I don’t know about this guy specifically, but I know of a couple of “professional” Hollywood gatecrashers. It’s kind of a hustle - you can have rich but lame people pay you to get them into parties, you can collect gossip for sites and magazines that trade in that sort of thing, you can sell investments or other…

I refuse to vote for Curt Schilling on the simple principle that he’s a human stain and doesn’t even deserve the attention of winning (losing?) a negative award.

Mr. “Iron Injections”?

So basically cheating is okay as long as your team wins. Good to know.

Did the cops know they could keep the chair as a souvenir?

The Marines have been described as “the straightest gay dudes and the gayest straight dudes in the world.”