That’s my primary concern here. Why did this woman not feel safe to go to the police or leave this guy? Why did she feel her only option was to murder him? It must have been her kid’s suicide which pushed her over the edge. So sad.

“All similar situations are exactly the same” is (often) the calling card of someone who doesn’t understand nuance. Given Reilly’s columns, yeah, he doesn’t understand nuance.

The Denver metropolitan area has something like 2.5 million people....

Narcissism is a hell of a drug.

I had this when I was a kid. My father caught me in a crying panic stashing all of my stuffed animals in my closet. When he asked what the hell I was doing, I told him that I didn’t want him to burn all of my friends. Apparently I’d gotten the impression from the Velveteen Rabbit that as soon as I fell asleep, he was…

Yeah I was going to say. If he cares about the wellbeing of adopted people (and as an adoptive parent, he probably should) then he should educate himself and shut his fucking trap.

I firmly believe there is a level of harmless-yet-despicable commentary and/or behavior that proves it is morally righteous to root for the originator’s death.

+1 for owning it

That picture should be labeled NSFLunch

The joke is apparently on me.

“Since going into something like semi-retirement two years ago.”

I don’t see the problem, Rick Reilly was assured by multiple sources that all the POC in Denver live on the same block, shop at the same store and eat at the same restaurant and he is just trying to avoid awkwardness for everyone involved in this sticky situation.

Neither. Vanilla doesn’t help. He has clearly stated “if you got A problem, yo I’ll solve it.” He only helps people with one problem. He is intimidated by Jay-Z’s dumpster fire* of a life.

This entirely depends on how fast the DJ revolves "it" while you're checking out the hook. Obviously.

In this situation Jay-Z would need to pick one of his problems (but not necessarily the 99th or 1st) and present it to Vanilla Ice to solve. Vanilla’s offer almost seems like granting a wish.

Jay-Z clearly has 100 problems now.

> Suppose that Jay-Z and Vanilla Ice are hanging out.

On the topic of solving problems, I have one for the Deadspin commentariat.

It is really too bad that Cleveland cannot just release that dogshit franchise.