Oh man, I used to love listening to Mitch Hedberg.
Oh man, I used to love listening to Mitch Hedberg.
Yeah, as another Gen-X white dude, I've had a similar rethinking in the past few years and an important realization.
And then he pulls his pipe out?
Call him the Glad Man.
The last time people were this excited about Popeye and the Bahamas, it was because Robert Evans was sending them boat loads of cocaine.
Love it as usual, Drew, and I know you write a shit-ton of this stuff every week, but I have to call the Grammar Police:
I work in local TV news. Here's exactly how it happened, I'm sure.
You'd better watch out, you'd better jump high
What amazes me is how particular egregious the Ohio cases are. You could argue (wrongly) in favor of Wilson killing Brown, or even the guy who showed excessive force on Garner (also wrongly) with the idea that he was being brutal but the death was accidental. But both Ohio cases are essentially straight up execution.…
You can't shoot criticism.
Wow, they actually found a way to put the words "Cleveland Browns" and "pathetic" in the same sentence and yet STILL BE WRONG. Damn.
Yes. Some people can't seem to understand that having your ideas rejected is not the same thing as having them suppressed.
...or the Hong Kong in Harvard Square. You'll get so drunk on scorpion bowls that, should you run into this Edelman character, you'll hopefully puke all over him.
It was a clerical error.
Good.
There are no pitchforks and torches here. Only discussion in the form of written text. Don't get it wrong.
It's not like the guy was just pulling these questions out of thin air or anything. He wasn't saying "Hey Torii I heard from my brother's wife's cousin's friend's hairdresser that you used an anti-gay slur at a party last week, care to respond?"
No, he has not done that. He has expressed his beliefs in a very civil and sane way. But he has advocated for beliefs that deny rights to a certain group of people that are afforded to the general population. That is bigotry. Bigotry does not have to be loud or violent, and the vast majority of the time, it is…
Deadspin is not your freshman philosophy seminar. Just FYI.