That is fair. There were certainly more aspects to the Civil War than just slavery, and a sizable portion of northern citizens were just as racist as any plantation owner. I don't know if "excuse" is the right word, because Lincoln's language is unacceptable, but it does help to explain it. Even the most hardcore…

Thanks - that makes sense. I guess because I've heard so much about these World Cup and Olympic courses being icy, and racers preferring icy conditions, that never occurred to me.

No, that's why I put "or". I've read other stuff that suggests something about the wax creating a liquid film between the snow and ski, so I could see how more of that might be helpful. I'm genuinely curious.

"No one's saying Lincoln didn't give a shit about slavery or that he didn't think it was wrong."

Why do longer skis go faster?

Ah, now we get to the beating heart of today's Confederacy: revisionist history. Anyone who claims Lincoln didn't really give a shit about slavery, citing as evidence the fact that he couldn't do anything he felt like all the time is ignorant of the historical context that he worked in, and the political limitations…

Exactly. The reasons the 13 Colonies seceded were morally justifiable. The Confederacy seceded so that they could keep owning black people. Thus, we can support one and not support the other.

If the 13 Colonies' justification for secession was that they wanted to continue owning other human beings, then yes, I would have been against that.

The original plan was for extra landfill down by the Museum campus and a temporary stadium - which would have probably looked cool but obviously we don't need two giant stadiums next to each other. The final bid was to build it down in Washington Park.

When you came here to write about what a shitty thing this was to do, it was a page view. When you came here to write about what a non-controversy this was since the pictures are barely altered, it was a page view. When you came here to ask what the point of doing this was, you have answered your own question by just…

My gym: $80 for an hour of private coaching. And it's a Crossfit gym.

Please be real.

Out of the thousands of players to have come through the FSU football program, how many do you know of that have been charged with sexual assault?

Crossfit?

Question: I'm lazy as shit. Can I use my stand mixer with a whisk attachment to beat the hell out of those eggs?

It being Gawker, that took less than 1 hour to devolve from a funny story about Richie Incognito to full-throated outrage about perceived racial insensitivity and political differences.

I do, and calling this area of Lake View "quite messy", particularly in the context of the rest of the City of Chicago, is the dumbest thing I've heard yet today.

Bad news then - you are in virtually the safest neighborhood of Chicago and it won't get better anywhere else in the city.

2:16. Is that a new car sticker on that guy's windshield?

Halsted and Armitage, three months ago. My inlaws and I are crossing the street after dinner and an asshole on a fixie decides that rather than slow down even slightly or, god forbid, stop for the red light he was coming upon, he would aim for the six foot (moving laterally) gap between the two halves of our group. No…