Yes. That’s what he should have done. That’s the better play here.

Really it just had to provide value to powerful people and factions as well as a way for those people to project the power to protect section 31. It probably funded itself through its schemes and as a secret institution it rarely had to transparently justify itself. In a progressive, inclusive idealistic government…

He didn’t have to call them racist. He just shouldn’t have gone out of his way to defend and excuse people for racist behavior. When you are about to defend racists... just shut up. All we are asking. 

Yes There is something wrong with Bernie being independent. The Democratic Party is the best political institution we have for engaging with and building a democratic society that doesn’t simply advocate for the rich and powerful. Nothing else comes close and nothing else can come close. It is not perfect. It needs…

I liked this book, but it belongs in the broad category of “Author had no idea how to end it.” Superman: The Movie had a better, more realistic ending. They have to change it for the show. I think Roth couldn’t bring himself to depict a permanently white-Christian-nationalist America. Before 2016, it seemed too…

I am not someone who talks crap about Democrats. I think Pelosi is mostly okay. I think Hillary gets a bad rap. So believe me when I say, the Florida Democratic Party is hot garbage. They have been thoroughly dominated for 18 years in a state that is less Republican than 25-30 other states and has voted for Democrats…

What was Oshie doing? He skated face first into a guy’s shoulder. Weird.

They really should tell people this. Most people I know find the receipt check annoying. If customers were told it is for their own good, they’d have a better feeling about the process and since it is the final interaction with the store, their entire in-store experience. Though I guess they don’t want customers to…

There is no way anyone with a legal background told Pollack this. Millions of people under the age of 18 get paid every week in this country. It is essential to the business model of large swathes of the American service industry.

Most football players are young and black. Most football coaches are Conservative Republican whites. The vast majority of college football boosters are Conservative Republican whites. Especially in the south. Not a coincidence that players are encouraged to think of political participation as a distraction. 

I have no idea why this article used a short sentence to describe a problem in an accurate but limited way instead of a two paragraph treatise about how access is hard.

4-team divisions means that most years an awful team will make the playoffs, plus the AL East would be terribly unfair to Toronto and Baltimore. The NFL’s short schedule gives them a reason to do it (play rivals twice) that doesn’t exist in MLB. Much better and fairer to go to 2 8-team divisions with 6 playoff teams…

When players do stuff like try to hard for statistical milestones, you make fun of them for it. Like “He needed a 50 point game to tell his grandkids about because he sure ain’t going to have any championship rings or all-nba awards to show them.” Once you get mad and start appealing to unwritten rules, YOU are the…

I think the existential crisis created by a Trump presidency is exactly what Schumer means when he says that being minority leader under Trump is more important than being majority leader under a President Hillary Clinton. So the article calling Schumer stupid for that belief is really unfair and is pretty stupid in…

They should wear different pants for each apparatus. Keep the Booty shorts for the floor exercise and the footy pajamas for rings, but wear speedos for pommel horse and tutus for vault. That would be glorious.

the wrong stat is not the point. If he had said 89% no one would care that he was wrong. It is that “88" is a common shoutout to neo-nazis meaning heil hitler. (88=HH because 8 is the eighth letter of the alphabet), with just enough deniability that Don Jr thinks it is clever.

Will a simple reply from an approved commenter bring a comment out of the grays without a star? Like replying “you’re wrong here’s why”

The article is saying he tweeted out 88 to mean Heil Hitler. If Heil Hitler isn’t neo-nazi, what is?

He knew that predicting the careers of the top 3 players in that draft was a crap shoot and that the 3rd pick plus a Kings 1st rounder was worth way more than first dibs at which of the 3 he wanted. Basically the idea that the Process was built around. Fulz could be an all-star and Colangelo would still be an idiot…

Melo is a type of player that other players see as the most impressive. Someone who can volume score on his own without help from teammates and score on shots that no one should ever take.