Well when we have the college lecture about the pros and cons of big business in American cities, I’m sure your treatise will be well regarded. But until then maybe we should let the body cool before we go to town on his legacy?

As a Blackhawks fan, he built an amazing hockey franchise that I respect-hated all my life. Hockey and sports lost a very good man and owner. Say hi to Gordie for us.

It’s important to remember that this dude believed in the city of Detroit when nobody else did. When every business was running away he was pumping money into a bad hockey team to make them a great one with some all time talent. Everything Detroit is now and may become in the future is arguably due in part to Illitch…

Lazy.

Why on earth would you think that a 2014 election against a guy who faceplanted into a cowpie with his “legitimate rape” comments during the election cycle gives her a better sample of her constituents than a statewide 2016 election?

If their job is to “represent their constituents” then perhaps Claire McCaskill, a senator from the state of Missouri, which voted 57% for Donald Trump, should be voting “yes”?

The Raiders still plan to come. They lined up Wall Street financing to replace Adelson’s contribution in case he dropped out. The three questions are:

I was being pedantic- and said so- about the children’s game thing. But it’s not pedantry to defend Huff’s profession- my profession- of entertainer against your charge of being “meaningless”.

Look, I’m just saying that people have had a need and desire to be entertained for hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of years. It’s not frivolous, whatever you might think. It’s a core part of civilization. Teachers and construction workers and medical researchers are also very important to civilization (and the…

Heh, fair enough.

Again, we just fundamentally disagree on the importance of the entertainer.

Again, I agree with you that Huff is wildly wrong here; it’s just not what he does (did) for a living that makes him so. Saying he has less room to speak his mind because of his job is the same logic used by people who yell at Pop and Kerr and van Gundy and Kaepernick to “stick to sports.”

To help soothe his anxiety, Raj will be spending extra time with his Tickle Me Peter King toy over the next couple of weeks.

Because if the republican controlled states start appointing electors who refuse to vote for a democrat the whole house of cards falls down.

Repeating a story from Jezebel’s pissing contest on this subject:

Probably won’t be the last time she’ll have two men on top of her surrounded by cameras. #SaturdaysAreForTheBoys #MAGA #Havasu

the second time i have ran into deadspin in political arguments this afternoon...

for the love of gawd why did Gawker have to get shutdwon and ruin deadspin and gizmodo.

Deadspin giving political advice or getting into the discussion is like asking my Roomba who i should vote for.. derp-derp, beep-beep, derp, runs…

As someone who has done DV work in the past, this is an excellent and nuanced article.

The good thing about you being the arbiter of everyone else’s behavior is that you obviously don’t love or spend time with any relative or friend who has any bigoted opinions, nor any relatives who have friends who have any bigoted opinions. And if you had any relatives who were imperfect, or who had friends who were…

Not upset. Prefacing sentences with “I feel like...” is just a mealy-mouthed way of avoiding making a declarative statement. “Hey you can’t argue with it if I say it’s how I feel first!” It’s a linguistic crutch/security blanket and you shouldn’t use it. Say what you mean, and say it with CONVICTION.