Ah yes, the libertarian who works in the “financial sector” and has a girlfriend who is a model in Canada, you wouldn’t know her.

Thank you for breaking it down and explaining it so well. I’m lucky enough not to have much experience with abusers so it’s easy for people like me to not realize that Zach Smith’s actions aren’t just some simple absent-minded mistake, but actually have a very specific purpose to them.

I hate having to explain historical references in jokes, but here you go.

You're acting like I've committed some kind of crime and am going to need an ally in the legal world.

I wasn’t aware of that being a concern for any journalist in this modern age of ours.

Courtney Smith was also at the school to pick up the kids...

Well you’ve already given the gender away, but can I guess what color these guys’ skin was?

I wonder how many of my ass pennies Aubrey Huff has handled.

I feel like there’s an Andy Reid “ate too much” and “tape worm” joke here but I can’t seem to make it work.

Cheers for engaging and following up. The way the incident is presented on wikipedia (that she was “falsely accused”) really irks me. There’s no debate about whether she made the gesture - she did. The question is what her intent was. And I don’t think that her or her husband’s denial of an allegation of intent…

So, I missed this, but you are saying she is the ultimate self-hating jew? 

When Zina Bash’s daughter is old enough to Google mommy’s name, that “controversy” is the first thing she’ll find. And she’ll ask, and mommy will say “no, honey, I just happened to be making the ‘OK’ symbol after being strategically placed in the camera frame behind that walking spider vein of an attempted rapist. It…

Just do it (at a Congressional hearing or something).

Yeah, looks that way. In my opinion Diana is the best journalist that Deadspin’s got; it’s a shame that she’s completely ignoring the whole XY/XX component of the discussion.

It is right now, but that won't last. When (not if) Texas goes blue, you'll see Republicans suddenly getting on board with abolishing the electoral college, and the empty states will be even less relevant than they are today.

The XY status is not just according to Hogshead-Makar - it’s made clear in the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s media release for their decision:

That’s very true, but I’d argue that it’s not going to work the same way anymore - the Republican brand has never been more toxic than it is right now, so while people will still age into conservatism at a roughly similar rate, a higher proportion of them will NEVER vote for a Republican politician. Plus, the party’s…

I did say “a small amount”.

Wait, was the bit about “pulling over” related to the cop’s testimony, or was it something one of the masseuses said to Kraft to indicate it was time for him to put his clothes back on?

One of the things that I have been able to take some small amount of solace in is the fact that the White House is filled with people who are so spectacularly incompetent that they actually end up getting very little accomplished. Imagine, for example, if Steve Bannon was still around and had the administration…