Woody Allen’s conditioning, seduction, and marriage with Soon-Yi Previn has been known during my entire adult life. All 26 years of it.

In college, the guys in the dorm and I called Kerrigan horse-face and thought Harding would be interesting White trash to have sex with. Some of us were sympathetic because we knew folks in figure skating and knew that Harding was often treated badly by the snobs in that arena. We were dumb as fuck then.

Because White House reporters (and generally, all big-M media journalists) are in it for themselves. Every last one of them. If April Ryan or Jim Acosta is neutralized by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that means Maggie Haberman or Margaret Talev get access and favor and headlines. Which is what Beltway reporting often ends…

The woman is a woman, for sure. But she put herself in harm’s way by having sex with a married man. He shouldn’t have slept with her. But it takes two to have sex and she chose to sleep with him when she could have not done so.

Or 4) The editor knew who the woman was from his or her own sources, and put the name in there during editing without talking to the writer first. Writer finds out only after fact-checker alerts her about this.

Dan Loeb is a bigot, a guy who got into trouble for using race-baiting language while scolding the state senate’s Democratic leader (a Black woman) and Bill de Blasio’s former education adviser (a Black man) because they wouldn’t do his bidding. Loeb would have been just as much a piece of shit as Wilpon.

Exactly. Madoff did well by the Wilpons, which is typical for a scam artist with any brains; take care of at least some of your marks in order to scam more suckers. When the bankruptcy trustee found out, it forced the Wilpons to pay back the profits.

Except that Tonya Harding was a far superior skater even on her worst day. Ashley Wagner could get a Russian judge on her side and still fuck it up by missing jumps and axels.

Except that Lipinski won gold and did win at Worlds. As much as I love me some Kwan, Michelle always folded in the clutch.

I prefer Sarah Hughes myself. Nicer rack. Prettier eyes. Most-importantly, lands her jumps and skates great enough to win gold.

We forget that most of these players were great on the field, but not necessarily equipped to run anything, much less a sports team. Gretzky did badly with the Coyotes and Jordan’s Charlotte Hornets are doing worse than the Knicks on the court. Lemieux got lucky the same way Hank Greenberg did when he was a part-owner…

That’s the funny part. No one should know the way to San Jose. Unless his name is Lew Wolff and is trying to finish the job of turning the city into one big desolate desert of cement and glass.

You seem to think that southerners were all ignorant about these issues, which is demonstrably false. The run-up to the Civil War took 40 years, and included debates over the Kansas-Nebraska Act (which ended the Great Compromise that required every slave state to be admitted alongside a slave state), and the Dred Scot…

They were “liberal” in the way many people are “conservative”: More about philosophy based solely on personal experience and personal interests (union wages, being able to smoke weed or fuck that hot Black dude or chick) than on any solid ideology or set of facts and evidence. Like most people.

Many union Democrats became Republicans in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan couldn’t have won two terms as President without them. Additionally, unions have a long history of not being all that friendly to Black people and other minorities. The National Education Association, for example, had White-only locals and affiliates…

That’s all nice to say. But as Albert Camus would say, as much as someone loves their ideology or ideals, they also love their mother, usually more. Abused children can barely disown their parents — and they have actual legitimate personal reason to do so. [The now-departed Gawker once had a piece about that.]…

They could have chosen not to fight if they objected to the cause, something many Quakers, Mennomites and other pacifistic groups did do, as has been done by generations of Americans before and since the Civil War. In fact, the Confederacy even allowed for such exemption so long as they paid an war exemption tax to…

She was involved in a protest. Something that every American is allowed to do by law and the Constitution of the United States. The murderer isn’t allowed to commit murder or to use his vehicle to cause harm. Especially since he drove into a pedestrian mall, a spot where cars aren’t supposed to be. The spot, by the…

John Young sneaks a sandwich. Dave Scott brings a Bulova watch and uses that instead of his NASA-authorized Omega Speedmaster. Those rebels!

Pretty much. Hay in your butt. Hay up her butt. Hurts.