Fucking priceless, indeed. So priceless that Deadspin went with a static screen grab instead of a video or GIF that woulda shown what he said.
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First question in Drew’s mailbag today was about Trump calling Hillary a “bitch” in the debates. Big headline on the main page and sidebars.
“The problem in [the United States] is the drinks are too hard and the toilet paper’s too soft.” — Winston Churchill as quoted in Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
“The problem in [the United States] is the drinks are too hard and the toilet paper’s too soft.” — Winston Churchill…
Trivia nugget: Mr. Wizard appeared after Bill Murray on the very first broadcast of Late Night with David Letterman in 1982; eighteen months before the premiere of his revival on Nickelodeon.
CraigyFerg! Somewhere in the multiverse, he got Letterman’s time slot, and Geoff wasn’t shipped off to Russia where he dispenses vodka and condoms in underground adult movie theaters.
Fair enough, but you just underscored what I believe are very common problems in public discourse these days: carelessly following one’s own tribe, repeating what one has heard without independent research, saying anything ‘cause maybe the ends will justify the means, etc.
Back in 1996, breast cancer funding from the National Cancer Institute, the largest giver of academic research funds in America, totaled $382 million compared to $86 million; a ~4.5 to 1 disparity. By 2006, the difference had shrunk to $715M versus $376M; still nearly double. By 2013, last year of available stats from…
I suspect many, if not most, of the names on the watch list were programmatic additions: bots harvesting identities from jihadi websites, known associates of minor terrorism arrests, anyone involved in suspicious online financial activities, etc. Real dragnet sorta stuff, y’know? It’s downright frightening to imagine…
“(4) just applied for a background check to buy a gun and a metric fuckload of ammo, and nobody gets, like, a text alert that maybe they ought to give him a quick door knock.”
*nerdy looking, white, overserved howler monkeys
Gotta be a White Sox fan scared of the Cubs winning this year and tying the Chicago city record of most World Series rings since World War I.
Numbers can be confusing, but it’s not a 133% reduction like you suggest; impossible to reduce more than 100%. It’s an additional one-third relatively speaking, which is statistically significant, but much less than what might be inferred from the original article, namely that the majority or entirely of the 40%…
The original Times article doesn’t quantify the reduction in the text. It vaguely links to an external source. Neither the Times nor Jezebel say “down 30% nationally.” Maybe I’m nitpicking, but I think that’s the sorta thing that should be mentioned alongside “down 40% in Colorado.” Otherwise, it seems like…
Teen pregnancy rates are down 30% across the board in the US since 2009. Abortion rates have gone down a similar amount too. While Colorado’s reduction in both is greater than the national average, it’s not so “startling” when compared to the overall trend. Seems a little disingenuous when folks ignore national data…
In other news, Fidel Castro is still alive, and Deadspin still loathes the Cardinals.
But why did Dunham choose the first name of the most notable Republican on campus during her years at Oberlin? Surely, she must have known he'd come under the investigative lens of the internet mob at some point, no? Why was it so important to Dunham to conflate her rape narrative with Barry's reputation, and risk…
Dunham chose the name Barry 'cause he was the biggest, baddest Republican on campus at the time, and he's a real person by all actual accounts, whose name has been co-opted to advance a narrative of Republicans raping women. Sorry, but not sorry, y'know?
Pardon, but isn't it in the least bit noteworthy that Dunham chose the first name of the most renown campus Republican, and now she's retracted? Assuming she did so in order to advance a narrative of being raped by the biggest, baddest Republican on campus, then shouldn't we wonder about the truth of the rest of her…
These stupid five second popup video ads make me wanna pirate Gawker articles.