Augusto’s dictatorship of Chile came after the most fortunate of revolutions.

I like the Spanish version, “El Ukranio”.

If you’re not from Brazil, it’s hard to understand the magnitude of this tragedy.

Paterno probably could have avoided the injury had he not been too busy looking the other way.

This is an especially idiotic hot taek.

“Hi, welcome to Fresh Air. I’m Terry Gross. You may know Jesus of Nazareth from his kicking the moneylenders out of the temple or possibly from his biographical anthology, The Bible. Jesus, welcome to the program.”

“The closeted perv has never come out as gay”

Because he very well may not be; being a child predator /= gay. Abusive sex is about power, not identity.

Great. Now I’m crying in a McDonald’s. And it's not for any of the usual reasons.

So you also read Cyanide and Happiness. Cite your sources when you steal jokes!

You’re assuming that pure ideology drives politics, which is only partially true. Cronyism, bureaucracy, and the inertia of corruption as the status quo makes it such that they tend to view athletes pushing for compensation as ungrateful and rebellious, rather than proponents of free-market athletics.

Celtic are so perfectly suited to Brendan Rodgers. It’s the ultimate marriage of self importance and delusions of relevance.

He’s 16, she’s 15, and by all accounts it was consensual.

Man, if only Dabo knew what it was like to use football to create opportunities for himself...If he had, oh i don’t know, played college ball then maybe he might actually have some experience from which to speak. Or if he had worked his way up through the coaching ranks maybe?

Some asshole stole Bartolo Colon’s belt and is showing it off in the background.

Daaaaamn Lena, back at it again with that white privilege!

I have a harder time explaining Michael Jordan’s moves as owner Charlotte to my 7 year old than I do explaining homosexuality. He understands that it’s okay that a guy can be in love with a guy, he has no idea why Jordan chose Marvin Williams over Chris Paul and neither do I for that matter.

This perception is ironic because John Jameson was actually a Protestant Scot.

Northern Ireland is on the island of Eire. Their ruggers play for Ireland. They are Irish. Bushmills whiskey is Irish.

Bushmills can wear a french tickler on its John Thomas if it so pleases.