It always amazes me how some people can watch a flagrant, textbook penalty and conclude that it was a rigged call. The replay from behind the play was about as conclusive as you can get - Harrison is a yard away from Alex Smith while being dragged to the ground from Fisher’s arm around his neck, and then a second…

Well, the first nearly 200 years (let’s say 170 and start post-WWII) were pretty questionable in terms of freedom and democracy. The last 40 or so was just a single precipitous drop once minorities, women, and the non-white poor* started to enjoy anything close to representation in the government.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/organize-or-die-1787921549

Props to the NFL for being able to make something Gary Bettman is doing look halfway competent

Martin could also stop grounding into inning-ending DP’s.

I only wish Mr. Kaepernick we as police officers, ostensibly dedicated civil servants, could see the emotional and psychological challenges that our officers citizens in the communities we are entrusted to serve face following a fatal encounter with the worst of our officer representatives, in addition to daily…

Meanwhile, iTunes is still shit.

Today and today only, it’s a pity that Margaret Thatcher isn’t still alive and aware enough to see the lies her police and government told about Hillsborough revealed and repudiated before the courts and public.

They took an extremely divisive situation and resolved it in a manner that seems satisfactory to all involved parties. Seems like they handled it pretty well, actually.