Quality Russian construction. They got their $51bn worth!

Poor Sochi. All that construction, never to be used again. In 20 years the pictures of decrepit Olympics venues will plaster the internet. We'll be ogling them on our Google Glass which, by that time, will be implanted directly into our neocortex.

If only we could get all the other, less powerful "Olds" with the same views as Donald Sterling (I'm looking at you, Uncle Ed) to commit suicide, then we might be able to move forward as a society.

You can already make a device look the way you want with various aftermarket cases.

In fairness, this is a hideous cake, and looks fairly amateurish. Of course, when you're tasked with "make a replica of our stadium out of cake," the correct response is, "how the hell do I do that?"

Interesting.

Agreed that the South lacks a decent stock of "urban core" housing. It's a legacy of the region being largely agrarian, I imagine.

I live in the East Bay of California, I know all about schooling issues.

I sincerely doubt that the quality of school districts is the main reason that suburbia is still alive and healthy in the South.

Meh. Dawkins serves a purpose, and is correct in his views. And the man's confrontation nature is, at times, overblown or over-emphasized. I don't buy the "oh, atheists are so shrill and mean" line, at all.

No, he's not.

They reject it because atheism isn't "American" anymore than "sunlight" is.

Little boxes, made of ticky tacky, little boxes on the hillside....

Actually, I disagree. You have a similar situation to the one you describe in other parts of the country (CA included), and yet you're still seeing an influx of people to/gentrification of existing urban areas.

I'd say the South is an anomaly in that. And the anomaly can be explained by, well, racism or at least strong group identities: there is a preference for living around "your kind," and therefore you see a lot of segregated, suburban communities in the south. Little enclaves. Then these are of course further sorted…

Ugh, yes, or they can just decay, the way suburbia has. The Levittown simulacra that dot the US are not faring too well.

Is this—answering semi-coherent emails from Deadspin readers—the apex of a post-NFL career? I surmise it is....

I resent the implication in this post that simply abandoning the homeless will somehow not take care of the problem.