The verdict is decidedly out on God’s existence. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself if Oden or Zeus exist (you and I both agree on that I’m sure). Even the best Christian apologetics have to acknowledge that the gospels are chalk full of contradictions (don’t believe me, compare the last words of Christ in Mark,…

Interesting (upsetting) article. Click-bait headline.

Good piece.
Interesting that the NFL blacklisted (pun intended) Kaepernick for basically standing up to the bully tactics of police officers - officers who revel in power but act from fear.
Having played high school football, the desire of everyone on my team to attain a level of macho manliness, to soak up the…

My impulse is to drop a bunch of sports cliches like “heart of champions,” “will to win,” “they refused to lose,” “everyone stepped up and did their job.” But mostly it felt like the previous game, except Toronto wasn’t finishing ridiculous shots every time the game got close. They hit a cold spell and the Warriors…

Are you old enough to have watched Pat Riley’s Lakers AND his Knicks teams? You play the cards you’re dealt.

Total agreement. And, as this article points out, he’s not what he once was and he’s still dominating. When speed is one of your primary weapons it’s often hard to adjust your game when the speed fizzles...but his tight control, vision, passing, and positioning are all so stellar that outrunning his opponents isn’t…

A) because there’re still better at basketball than 99.9999% of the world population and there’s a lot of money at stake.
B) If they quit, you’d be bitching that they’re quitters with no grit or pride
C) This wasn’t necessarily bad defense - watch the Lou Williams highlights, he drained difficult shot after difficult…

Don’t you have to mention the chase down block by Beverly (followed by foul) and the nose to nose chatter afterward. In my reading of the game, that was the moment Beverly went from pest to ego-kneecapper for Durant, like “How the eff did I let that little half man half gnat block my shit?”

Ooooooooooooh...Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

I see you Corey. Sending all my love to you (and your mother). May you heal that hurt.

Scoring 31 of your team’s 88 points while adding 8 rebounds and 7 assists seems like a dismemberment. Maybe “evisceration”? “Dismantling”? “Bringing the duck sauce!”?

Alien: I have heard the expression “jumping for joy.” What, pray tell, is that?
Coby White: [this]

Well at least we know homophobia is alive and well in the NBA with both fans and players alike. Fucking cis boys and their terror of being thought other.

Not everyone.

Seems like a good place to put this: great podcast on how the Black Panther Party (Oakland!) and white fear created the modern the NRA:

Didn’t just have one. They created one of the most effective, underhanded, power protecting rackets ever assembled - CointelPRO. They wrote the playbook on turning hope into a nightmare.

So if one has white privilege they cannot simultaneously have insight into the black experience? As a white man who grew up in a black neighborhood (here we go) I know I have a clearer understanding of white privilege than most white folk because I literally felt it - the change as I crossed from my neighborhood into…

It’s all complicated. All the way down. And any media outlet that fails to acknowledge complication because viewers are cud chewing doltish americans are doing a disservice to our country and our national conversation.
That said, the NOI’s world view as to jews and whites is demonstrably reprehensible and inaccurate…

Every faux-dynasty attracts bandwagon fans. But the old school Bay Area fans are pretty awesome and put up with a lot of shite for a lot of years. I was four when they won in the 70s and loved me some Sleepy Floyd, Run TMC, Weber/Spree (though that was super short lived). Bol and Marciulonis. Tyrone Hill. Higgins.…

I think you’re underselling the Rockets going 0 for 10,000 from 3 to gift the warriors a return to the finals. That was some serious drama.