What’s amazing to me is that Austin was this close to being yet another journeyman wrestler the WWF repackaged into a shitty gimmick. Who even remembers his run as the Ringmaster, the Million Dollar Champion? Nobody.

Strict facial hair bans at work have been ruled illegal by multiple federal courts—not just on religious constitutional grounds, but on grounds that it has disparate impact on certain ethnic groups (mainly, African Americans) where razor shaving may promote ingrown hairs and infection from pseudofolliculitis barbae.

I’d suspect Southeast Asian shrimp paste and fish sauce may be tied to Roman garum through cultural dispersion. It’s not discussed that much, but the world was much more integrated during in antiquity than is typically thought —remember, Alexander made it all the way to India before he died; there were Chinese silks…

I’m not an MRA or anti-sex or anything, but I simply can’t wrap my head around why any couple would film themselves just for their own entertainment. It just strikes me as a mark of some kind of narcissism, insecurity or immaturity —like, you need the recording to remember that you once had sex? Can you really be…

NYC actually just started free distribution in the public schools, homeless shelters, and jails:

That’s what Page Six was likely willing to say, in exchange for the info. It’s not the only bit on the trial they’ve run —they also screwed Vanity Fair, by breaking the news that they’ve got an investigative reporting piece on Cosby’s former lawyer, Marty Singer.

I see those signs and think

That lawsuit was funded by none other than Edward Blum, and tellingly, it was disowned by many Asian students on campus.

What is “666 URDOOMED” written in blood supposed to mean?

I’m not so anxious. I lived in New York during the crack epidemic. I have lived through some other hairy shit otherwise too — during and after 9/11, and I’ve taken it mostly in stride —no panics at airports or anything.

Man, I had to reply to this…

This cannot be done as documentary. It demands a horror / thriller set up.

What I think is interesting, is that for all the talk about Ali being a racist, he was never particularly uncomfortable about talking frankly with them. He had close associates who were white. And yet he never bothered with defensively saying, “But I have white friends.”

Too bad that Peter Thiel is an investor in Reddit.

There’s something interesting —and interesting, in a morbid way— about reading these statements. Because beyond the wretchedness of victim-blaming, notice how Holtzclaw can’t stick to a narrative about his own actions? He can’t seem to say something as simple as “I was on the other side of town,” or “I did a search,…

The thing is, it wasn’t a short con but a long one. Bill always kept his comedy clean, in that he didn’t curse, but we’re talking about a guy who everybody knew was spending time with Hugh Hefner in the 1960's and 70's. His books are littered with knowing winks-and-nods that boys will be boys and so on. The reason we…

Without seeing the full text of the deposition, I can’t entirely say anything about the tenor about the questioning.

All jokes aside, and at the risk of being “that guy”: it’s an inconvenience to have talkative assholes next to you, or people whipping out bright-ass phones, or whathaveyou. But I feel like I can grumble and deal with that.

The obvious winner is The Pirate Bay.