“We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual.”

How about this:

4. What is best unsaid.

Sepp Blatter’s not looking for the cure
Sepp Blatter’s not concerned about the sick among the pure.
Sepp Blatter, let’s go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
Sepp Blatter’s not one to choose

Some of my lit students were telling celebrity stories recently, and I happily talked about the time I met Junot Diaz.

I’m going to continue to not watch this show.

I’ve never been into the show. To me, it always reminded me of when every comic book decided to go “grim and gritty” in the 90s. One most juvenile things to believe is that constant senseless hopelessness and violence are somehow inherently mature. It’s a 13 year old boy’s vision of what adult art should be like.

Thank you: “The problem isn’t that this episode included a rape, but that it did so in the service of bad storytelling. It told the audience nothing that wasn’t already known, and it didn’t advance any plot lines beyond where they already were.”

You correctly predicted the 2 #1 seeds would make it? :P

If you don’t like Paul Pierce then I don’t like you

Sherman Alexie is a mensch. My dad (seventy-something years old) just discovered his work and is madly in love with it. So when Alexie did a signing last year at my local indie bookstore, I got him to sign a copy of his new short story collection. I explained it was for my dad who was going through his “Alexie phase”:…

Bill Clinton is as devastatingly charming in person as he appears on TV. That’s all I got.

One time I was flying from JFK to SFO, with a layover in Phoenix and saw Flavor Flav waiting at our gate. We went over and talked to him, he showed us the bag of clocks he keeps in Target bags with the rest of his Target bag luggage, and took a photo with us. He sat behind us on the plane (in coach) and yelled…

Fuck you, Jaxon

So much of it, I think, is just that he’s the only dude in the NBA who seems to have a real, passionate appetite for this shit. Think about how goddamn miserable and exhausting (both physically and mentally) it must be to chase a guy around the half-court at a near-sprint, then fight over a seven-foot screener who…

Mike Conley having THAT game and Deadspin posting that it’s a “Tony Allen game” has got to be the most Mike Conleyish thing that has ever happened.

Imagine if Steph Curry was 100 feet tall!

This is also a fantastic way of losing your friends very quickly.

Imagine if Michael Jordan was still on the Bulls with D-Rose!

America's Prince is not impressed by your "royalty," UK.