Because there is a performative aspect to gymnastics that most other Olympic sports, aside from figure skating, lack. You are a tiny person in a vast arena of people. While what they are doing looks massive on TV, when the frame is tightly cropped in, it is fairly easy to get distracted away from it when you are in…

Joe Posnanski and now this article have made me really interested specifically in the scoring of gymnastics. Just the whole rubric of grading based on difficulty is so novel relative to other ways we score things.

How much do you want to bet Simone is going to jump up like crazy in the baby name chart?

I made a new burner account because I couldn’t remember my password JUST to comment this BUT there is a book called “How to Disappear Completely” about anorexia where the author talks about how women who are small (petite and thin, basically) are romanticized to be mysterious and artsy because they are small (and/or…

Here’s one of the worst things about this POS getting off after murdering that little boy: you know one day he’s going to kill someone else. He’s already come close with his girlfriend(s?) in the past; it’s just a matter of time before he murders someone else. The jury that acquitted him and the DA office that…

I've actually spat on someone who touched my hair on the subway, albeit on their pants, not their face. When asked why I did it, I said I wanted to feel his leg.

Not difficult. Read a book about her.

Def not down with the title “Botched by Nature”; people with congenital or other disorders are not fried eggs where the yolk broke. Jesus. They’re people, doing their thing like everyone does.

Being mean to the player because her child died right in front of her. I get that she’s just a fictional character, but I swear that video gamers these days have absolutely no empathy for other human beings. We’re a generation of goddamn psychopaths.

I have my ass patted down every time I fly & I always wear leggings or yoga pants. I know my ass is fat, but it's pretty obviously just a fat ass and a weapons cache.

Um... I just watched this and I legit want to cry.

And these are only the incidents that we hear about, because they happen to media-savvy people with access to publicity. Imagine how many times it happens that we never hear about.

Are they gonna fix the catch rate next? That seems to be a more pressing issue.

Seems to me they euthanized the wrong goddamn animal >:(

Does no one remember the Will Friedle Classic “My Date With the President’s Daughter”? I’m only 24 but that’s still my go-to first kid movie reference.

What is the ostensible reason not to allow an inmate to shower? It's amazing to me the depth of torture we allow prison guards to inflict upon inmates for no reason at all.

Hi, I’m an artist. This does not calm me. (Inking is the scariest part after putting in a lot of work on the drawing or sketch.)

It’s pretty gross to accuse a black man of trying to “socially bleach” himself, but it’s particularly gross to minimize a black man like Kanye with that attack. Kanye’s last two albums (Yeezus in particular) directly and critically discussed the state of black men in America— he talked about the evils of private…

This would’ve been an excellent opportunity to say, you know, “Whether you’re a boy or you’re a girl, both of you, my job will be to make sure it’s equally an option for both of you.

I had to read the headline like three times to understand it. For a moment I thought they were implying the woman was very old so she shouldn’t be able to vote. Then I understood.