I make it a point not to watch Yankees games, and will only go to Yankee Stadium every three years when they play the Giants, so someone please explain to me why no one even close to them is wearing any bit of Yankees swag? Like, I know these seats are mostly owned by corporations trying to impress clients, but is no…

You get a sense that Tarquin and Felicity have never been to a baseball game before, but one or the other’s turn came up for the office’s season tickets.

I mean, if they roll foul they are, but the dirt in front of home plate is fair territory. Hell, home plate is fair territory. He should’ve run like lightning the moment he connected — no self-respecting umpire would be able to claim he was intentionally disrupting the play by taking a direct line to first.

I know Cool Pope is like, super cool and really progressive by 18th century standards, but it doesn’t surprise me at all that he took some time to wink at a lady making a lot of news for holding the hard line for Old Tyme Relijun.

No... Phomvihane’s was... Salazar was a fascist... Omar al-Bashir’s politics are a hodgepodge of Pan-Arab Nationalism, Salafism and brute-force militarism.

Sorry, lemme add: “Kardashian fart poop netflix and chill”

You’ll find very few progressives in this country calling for out-and-out socialism. Rather, many look at Nordic social democracies as an achievable model, a mixture of market capitalism with a welfare state and nationalized collective bargaining. It’s a model that works really well as long as your state has a high…

Yes, but if the argument being forwarded is that communism is inherently cultish because it has often taken the form of a dictatorship, then the syllogism is illogical. There are plenty of examples of dictatorships that aren’t based around cults-of-personality: Salazar in Portugal, Sudan under Omar al-Bashir, Laos…

“Communism” as a political and economic practice has such a wide variety of expressions and theoretical practices that it’s kinda impossible to call it a cult. Are we talking about the communism of Enver Hoxha, or are we talking about the communism professed by Rosa Luxemburg? Are we talking about Fourierism? Or…

Not all dictatorships are cults.

There are actually hundreds of doomsday cults in Russia, many of whom live self-sufficient lives far off the grid in Siberia. A friend from a study-abroad program in St. Petersburg actually got involved in one and had to be rescued by her family. At the time, I was really impressed; my Russian was definitely not good…

“He’s our closer” is exactly the same boneheaded thinking that caused the Nats to lose the five-hour eighteen-inning Game 2 against the Giants in the NLDS last year. The Giants only rallied to tie in the ninth because Williams took out Jordan Zimmerman for dumb “conventional wisdom” thinking — he had just walked Joe…