“In the race pictured above—a 60-meter hurdles preliminary at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships back in March—she finished third (behind the two women flanking her). In the finals, she finished sixth. In her other event, the 200 meters, Telfer finished 12th in the preliminaries, keeping her out of the…

He meant the jobs, but not the unions. They’re not nostalgic for the last years of the mines, but for the days the company provided your clothes and food at the company store, and shelter at the company village, all paid for by company scrip.

Jared, it’s easy. Birtherism is racist.

How is anyone surprised at the lack of security? She’s a woman, and all of our history should show you how little the security of women matters in this world.

Let’s put this in clear terms.  Trump has spent two years telling border patrol and the troops he’s sent down there to fire on migrants approaching the border.  They haven’t done it, because whatever else we may think of them, none of them are willing to cross that line.  So now he’s putting tariffs on Mexico to try…

He also can’t commit to the bit (his racism probably got in the way of thinking). For point 8, he could have said ‘Use banks and take care of your credit score’ and then followed it up with his bullshit. That would at least still have been a ‘thing to steal’ instead of just a racist insult hurled at Michael.

Just want to point out that the unemployment rate is only at 4% because of all the people working at Uber, Lyft, GrubHub, and all the other apps that have sprung up in the last decade. If some guy works four hours a week driving people for Lyft in his brother’s car, and spends the rest of the week on the couch, he…

Does that mean he’s going to become President of Baylor and cover up rapes? Because that’s what the last high profile special/independent counsel did.

If history repeats, a couple years after Trump is gone you won’t be able to find a person who admits to voting for him. But in 2032 a Republican will be elected President and Steve Bannon will be his chief of staff, and a bunch of other staffers whose names we barely know will be in that White House, and no one will…

I once got yelled at by co-workers for sharing photos of an old vacation.  Their complaint was that I wasn’t in any of the photos.  In fact, there were hardly any people in them at all, because I was busy taking pictures of the shit I’d never get to see in person again.

We don’t talk about Native Americans any more than absolutely necessary in our schools, and even that is at least half bullshit. This is by necessity - you can’t perpetuate the myth that this country was founded by great men taming a wilderness for freedom and democracy if you have to acknowledge the profound impact…

“What if I called a sandwich a black?”

Paid extras.  Instead of putting them in the movie, they get them to write YouTube comments to make it look like people care about your movie.

It’s not a matter of growing a sense of empathy.  Many on the right don’t believe empathy exits - they honestly believe that every time someone on the left claims empathy, or advocates for some policy on those grounds, that it’s an act for political advantage and the pursuit of power.

I don’t pay much attention to baseball, but your comment makes me wonder if the people who long for the ‘old’ crew are just unhappy that women are talking about their sport.

1. Trump was why I left the Republican party - shit like this is why I could never go back. My eyes have been opened to just how much the party I thought I supported isn’t what I thought it was, and is instead a party that thinks we screwed Nixon and should all feel sorry about it.

It’s not a crime. They will not issue warrants just for being poor - more importantly, they don’t want to have to feed you in prison. It is, however, America’s stance that being poor is a moral failing, and thus every result of that is your fault. I have actually said, in my more ignorant and Republican days, that we…

The purpose of this has been achieved, unfortunately.  Odds are high that, at some point in the next few weeks, I’ll slip up and conversation around my parents will turn toward the political, at which point my mother, who for most of her life would have known better, will confidently state that the real collusion was…

That’s fitting, since he just essentially said “I love minstrel shows, and those of us who love them shouldn’t have to listen to you say they’re racist.”

He was on Deadspin today trying to paint the Serbians as the victims in the genocide they committed, so it helps to read around the website to figure out who people really are.