Roscoe

9/26/16

I think the problem is that, as you point out, lots of other smart people who understand how this shit works are coming up with pretty divergent answers, but Silver has, especially since ESPN gave him all that cash, presented himself as the one with THE answer, the one whose statistical approach can see through all…

9/23/16

I’m confused by the scale. Is 9 supposed to be a good score, or, like, the total feet he could throw it on a bounce?

9/22/16

Don’t listen to Sam Harris. Listening to Sam Harris about Islamist movements is like asking Sean Hannity what he thinks about rap music.

9/21/16

Ugh. That’s repulsive.

9/21/16

I can’t find off the top of my head my main source for that first point, but there is a report from a Dutch counter-terrorism center that says “the idea of a transnational identity that connects individuals and groups to foreign communities and the perceived need to support fellow members of that community when they…

9/21/16

Also, the headline is about boycotting the NFL. People who don’t watch the NFL are going to think that’s an article for them. I did.

9/21/16

I do not watch the NFL, but I will gleefully read every article about how fucked up and stupid the NFL is.*

9/21/16

1. The most common reason given for lone wolf attacks in Western countries and for Western Muslims leaving to join ISIS is Western foreign policy, specifically the indiscriminate killing of Muslims and/or the perception that Western governments do not care about dead Muslims.

9/21/16

That anger, though, is in part a reaction to the history of Western colonialism and military domination of their countries. Current American foreign policy is seen (reasonably, in my view) as a continuation of that.

9/21/16

Are you kidding me? From that article:

9/21/16

It’s not the loss to Canada, but the way the US played the whole tournament and the construction of the roster.

9/20/16

Yep. Among many, many other things.

9/19/16

That actually happened to me because of my mom. I had just gotten my license, and I was about to turn right on red. There was almost no traffic going the other way. The car in front of us goes and I inch up behind it, planning to look and then accelerate. As I’m about to go (there’s nobody coming), my mom yells at me…

9/19/16

I saw an interview with a high-ranking Iraqi official in 2005 or 2006, where he was asked about torture and indefinite detention going on in Iraqi prisons under his watch. His response was, They’re just part of having prisons. Everyone does it. Even America has Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

9/19/16

Which is cool. As I see it, there’s a thin line between Deadspin’s political sports stuff and the Concourse’s straight political stuff, and, given the fate of Gawker, it’s one that I, as a consumer, am glad they crossed.

9/19/16

I get it, and it is a change, but Deadspin has always had cross-posts from other sites, and its own content has always been at least politically adjacent. The stuff about stadium funding; faux-militarism; the Cardinals’ aggressively awful, racist fans; athletes’ various protests all involve sports, but they’re also…

9/19/16

As a sports fan who finds the NFL pretty repulsive and reprehensible, I’m faced with a shit-ton of posts I don’t care about between July and February. I deal. So can you.