FIBA allows basket interference on balls above the cylinder,

Wendell Smallwood, who didn’t have an offensive touch.

Well, the part I quoted resonated with me, for reasons that I am certain go beyond “lazy all-black-and-white thinking.”

Not here to defend the permanent flux of liquid modernity, but I found this portion pretty spot-on:

They have pecs under them.

My mother in law likes to tell a story about her son, my brother in law (confusing, I know). The story is of a mom in a suburb of Boston who was disgusted by her teenage son’s messy bedroom, and frustrated that she couldn’t get him to do anything about it. She was so frustrated, in fact, that one day, while he was at…

Don’t forget to stretch!

IT’S THE SOUNDTRACK TO SUUUUUHHHHH-MERRRRRRRRR!

I honestly don’t follow this. I think it’s clear that I took issue with standing in silence for 33 minutes, explicitly tying whatever it felt like to be part of an anti-Nazi party in Germany in 1933 to what it feels like to be muzzled by an extremely dumb MLS policy. Or maybe its equating the banishment of the Iron…

apparently thinks that no one who wasn’t alive during the Montgomery Bus Boycott has any right to take a stand on civil rights in America in 2019.

The flags aren’t really my priority. As I mentioned above, the “standing in silence for 33 minutes” was really what drew my scathing internet critique. That’s the part that felt a bit overmuch. It’s really fine with me if you feel differently, and it’s not like those guys are on my shit list now or anything.

Yeah, it seems like it’s a lot more of an open conflict out there. Another commenter made that point, which I hadn’t considered at first.

Good point. I hadn’t thought of that, and it definitely makes a big difference.

What?? Because that’s what you’re doing when you fly Iron Front flags! I feel like I didn’t make the leap.

Haha, good point.

But it is several motherfucking astronomical units away. The fact that the gesture wasn’t done out of respect for the (original) Iron Front or to call attention to that movement, but instead to directly equate the two, is in my mind way over the line.

Oh, please. It’s not as if the only possible “stand” to take was standing silently for 33 minutes in reference to the disbanding of the Iron Front in 1933.

At the Timbers-Sounders derby on August 23, die-hards from both teams engaged in a silent protest for the first 33 minutes of the match—symbolizing 1933, the year that the Iron Front was disbanded in Nazi Germany—to show their opposition to the silencing of signs deemed too political by virtue of being anti-fascist…

Gosh, if only there were a song for this. Oh wait, there is:

I guess you could call that...