The law makes it so that the state can’t refuse to license / re-license adoption agencies who discriminate against gay couples. Because otherwise, regardless of public money, the state could compel adoption agencies to not discriminate by otherwise not allowing them to operate.

Yes, this Blackhawks fan is absolutely shedding tears over this

As (unfortunately) a Bears fan, I can confirm the accuracy of this statement

The series is 3-1 Penguins for 2 reasons and only 2 reasons: 1) Fleury has been absolutely brilliant, and 2) the officiating has been downright atrocious in favor of the Pens. That garbage call on Oshie last night was just the tip of the iceberg. How about the garbage slashing call on Ovechkin (garbage because it was…

No, I’m merely pointing out the massive falacy in your argument. In any sort of significant population center the community can essentially vote with their wallets in order to force businesses to not discriminate but for millions of Americans that’s simply not an option. Without legal ramifications there is absolutely…

Yes, you’re either selfish or simply incredibly naive. A community refusing to give business to a bigot who refuses services on the grounds of his or her bigotry only works if there are other viable options to the community. There are millions of Americans who truly only have 1 option for specific essential services…

So basically what you’re saying is that you’re selfish. This doesn’t necessarily impact you personally because you have the ability to avoid businesses that would want to discriminate against you, thus you don’t give a flying fuck that this would make life unbearably hard for people who live in different parts of the…

The biggest factor in that Lindberg goal was Tanner Glass accidentally-on-purpose taking out Dion Phaneuf by way of their skates colliding while Glass was trying to get to the net. Hoffman does everything right in that he forces Miller to turn back towards the boards instead of letting him cut into the middle, the…

In what universe is that hit on Werenski even remotely dirty? The hit on Carlo was more awkward than dirty, but the hit on Werenski was 100% clean - Werenski had the puck, the hit was shoulder-to-shoulder, and while Ovechkin does drive up he doesn’t leave his feet so it’s not a charge. Trying to claim that was in any…

The weird part is they were all drafted in the WHL before deciding to focus on football

PK Subban is awesome and all but to say that their top forward line “maybe the best of the eight teams remaining in the playoff” is a massive stretch.  The Caps (Ovechkin-Backstrom-Oshie), Pens (Crosby + 2 warm bodies), Oilers (McDavid + 2 warm bodies) and probably even the Blues (Terasenko-Lehtera-Schwartz) all have…

Considering that the NHL app is $160 for the season and includes blackout restrictions, $300 for a similar NFL app sounds about right. Not about right as in what I’d be willing to pay for it, but about right as in what I’d expect them to price it at.

Except it doesn’t. That’s been proven fairly unequivocally by the fact that Skip Bayless, who is doing the exact same thing over at Fox that he did with Stephen A. Smith on ESPN, is drawing in fewer viewers than things like old reruns of Saved By the Bell or Fresh Prince that are airing on other cable networks in the…

I work from home 1 or 2 days a week, and I used to simply leave ESPN on all morning and have SportsCenter providing background white noise while I worked. Now though I cannot reach for the remote fast enough to change to either ESPN2 (for more SportsCenter) or more likely BBC America (for Doctor Who reruns) when the…

Harold Ballard died in 1990, and by the time of the 2004-05 lockout Dollar Bill’s influence had waned considerably from what it had been 20 years earlier. In the 1990's and early 2000's there was no reason for anyone to care, but by the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons (the last 2 that old fuck lived to see) league-wide…

It’s not Marylanders (entirely) - it’s the whole DC metro area. We literally import all of the worst drivers (and worst driving habits) from all over the world. Combined with a city that was designed for horse-and-buggy traffic and city planners who have done fuckall to modernize traffic flow patterns over the last 50…

It was nearly impossible to be a ‘Hawks fan until the 2008-09 season, which (as ridiculous as it seems to type) was the first time every ‘Hawks game was broadcast. For people who don’t know, Dollar Bill Wirtz (one of the absolute worst owners in professional sports history, period) made a dumbass promise to his dad…

Having gone to boarding school in New England with a ton of Bruins fans, I’m calling bullshit on that. Your average bruins fan is exactly like your average Red Sox or Pats fan because it’s all the same person. Sorry, but it’s true. It’s possible that you’re an exception - you certainly seem to have some self-awareness…

Also a consultant here. In addition to agreeing with you, I also appreciate how this dumbfuck specifically laid out his unethical methodology in emails thereby leaving a clear paper trail. This is absolutely the sort of thing that could end up in court, those emails are all discoverable and prove beyond a shadow of a…

No, you completely misunderstand. That outfit signfies that he’s clearly someone who’s pissed off about something no longer being fashionable and is trying with all of his (limited) might to hold onto it