Veidt disappeared between 2007 and 2012, so a dozen years at most. I gather his accent is a pretentious mid-Atlantic accent that used to be common among rich, Ivy educated upper-crust Americans who spent part of every year in Britain or attended school in Oxford (Listen to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt for example).…

Some more context about Russell’s stance: Russell refused induction in 1975 because none of the black players who preceded him were honored. This state continued until 1989 when William “Pop” Gates was inducted. Gates never got to play in the NBA because when it formed, his team, the Rens, were excluded despite…

Is Daphne going to spend the movie dropping hints that her father’s been getting a little handsy at home? Because that’s the vibe I got from the last scene. Dark choice.

I thought they would tell Jason the new Jags QB was named Gardner Minshew II and Jason would be despondent that the new QB was some nerd. Then Janet would show him a picture of Minshew in an open-fronted shirt, bandana headband with aviators and homemade Jorts, and Jason would be instantly in love.

I am sorry to report the “No Gardner Flint Minshew I” story was poor reporting/communication error. His Father is in fact named “Gardner Flint Minshew,” but goes by “Flint.” Here is an interview with his father. 

As a former Floridian, Amendment 4 infuriates me. Activists assumed plain language would be enough to get the peoples’ will done. But they left a gaping loophole for dishonest assholes to thwart the intent. This happens time and again. Stop giving republicans, reactionaries and bigots the benefit of the doubt. Assume…

The Police actually said “Stabbed in the Back?” Given that phrase’s history, I’m not surprised. What’s next, a statement about how the city should give police more “Living Space?” Asking for more paid police vacation to help the city find “Strength Through Joy?” How about a press release about how juvenile offenders…

The comma doesn’t matter. You cannot have the “we” at all. Pronouns replace nouns; they don’t go alongside them. You cannot have both a noun and the pronoun that refers to it serve as the subject of the same clause. This is called a Duplicate Subject error. 

The bigger mistake I mention is the “we.” Saying, “The Chief and I we both were shot,” (which she corrects to) is a bigger mistake than “The Chief and me both were shot.” Technically it should be “The Chief and I were both shot,” but the placement of both isn’t the mistake I was referring to, since it is less obvious.…

Bruce Maxwell was the only baseball player to kneel during the anthem (hat off, held over heart, which is more deferential than many players). For this he has been frozen out of baseball at age 27/28. He is one of the few African-Americans in MLB (the U.S. black community’s disinterest in baseball has reached crisis…

I loved the fake out. When Crookshanks reads the letter, she starts to read who the letter is addressed to, but is interrupted, so you think “we aren’t going to get his name this episode.” Then a minute later he just says “Adrian Veidt.” Really well done. That is how you toy with expectations.

I believe he is imprisoned on Mars by Dr Manhattan (or by someone with Manhattan’s help). There is a livable area which Veidt is attempting to explore beyond. The form it takes is to keep Veidt happy and just because. Crookshanks and Philips are either Manhattan’s constructs (he said he wanted to create life) or…

I’m worried too. This show has used a lot of situations that are... provocative (Black Police force abusing the civil rights of white reactionaries, Detaining people for unconscious racial bias revealed by the pod, A Black Man Hangs a White Cop, Heavy-Handed Reparations, Authoritarian Liberal Government, and on and on.…

Angela corrects her own grammar, then commits a bigger mistake immediately: “Most of you know the Chief and me.... and I, we both were shot on the same night.” Might be symbolic of Angela thinking she is doing the right thing, correcting mistakes, but is really committing more mistakes. Maybe in her…

“GUTENBERG: THE MUSICAL”

You finish exactly 2nd multiple times, 1 point behind the winner, then when you have maximized your reputation, proved your consistency, but maintained your youth and promise, then you win every race to run away with the title and get your promotion. Pretty narrow needle to thread, but that’s how women are supposed to…

Once again we see what’s at the heart of Melania’s decorating sensibilities: existential dread. I imagine that’s what the inside of her brain feels like.

Its all for no good reason, too. Deadspin rarely wrote posts that were not sports related (most of the political articles were sports-related) and those were mostly joke posts like “Crumbs at the Bottom of a Cereal Bag, Ranked.” The kind of articles ownership hated happened less than ten times a year. And for that…

Amazing that these people can’t see the difference between a president leading a “Lock Her Up” chant against a political opponent, (actually promising to sic the FBI on that opponent) and a bunch of random Baseball fans doing a funny chant.

Yeah, you actually don’t have to go outside to smoke at a party— you’re just an asshole if you don’t. Same thing with vaping.