I sat in a bar, with my pregnant wife, down in Florida watching that game unfold. The nice locals next to us seemed excited for the Bears about to kick the winning field goal. I told them that he was going to miss it. I had no doubts about this and then he hit those fucking poles. Sat there in my Mack jersey, staring…

Progress is measured by what is socially acceptable. A good way to see what is socially acceptable is by looking at pop culture. Pop culture has always been important in shaping social moors, this is why we read literature from different time periods.

It’s weird how effective that is. It’s not like passing laws to enable women to obtain abortions is going to retroactively cause one your ancestors to be aborted. Terry Smalltowner’s existence is in no way threatened by abortion access.

Goddamn, Bulletproof coffee is still a thing? Isn’t that fad, like, years past its shelf-life by now? Something about the smugness of the name (see also: Impossible burger) has always set my teeth on edge.

HA - that really made me laugh - good one!

Its still an insult, just not a slur. The real insult is being compared to The Godfather Part III.

I know a lot of people are going to be making jokes about this Werder’s physical appearance, and I just want to point out that it’s not okay to body-shame. This is true even of demographics not usually subject to body-shaming, because, if we’re being honest with ourselves, nobody likes a hypocrite. And maybe the world…

Ah that’s too bad, I haven’t listened in a while and just assumed he still did it. Maybe this is the push to get him back on there.

Get ‘em both on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and they’ll really have something.

Whoa, Charlie, my favorite political writer, on Deadspin?  Is this going to become a regular thing like Ratto?  Can we get a Ratto & Pierce podcast going?  I’m excited by the possibilities.

mpphhh mpphhh...<spits out chicken head>...no problem!

That is a totally uncalled for and offensive take. I’m sure plenty of people who ate lead paint chips as children turned out to be much better people than the Swarzaks.  

Stealing.

I’ll always love that the people who claim there’s noting wrong with being a nationalist are the same who will say that Nazis were socialists because it’s in the name, and without a shred of irony.

“Apparently there’s some confusion about white nationalism”

I don’t know Platform, but I always hate to see this. I’m not incredibly concerned with whether it’s considered “craft” or not any longer, but the more space AB-InBev buys on craft shelves all over the country, the more they’ll be pushing out the little guys. And as someone in one of the largest beer hubs in the…

I keep meaning to make a Dead Letters Bingo board, but I never sit down and do it. Some obvious inclusions:

NOT a Broncos fan, but I am a Denver resident, and give us a LITTLE slack about our Governor. Hickenlooper has moved on from the state house to tut-tut at the Dems who literally don’t want people to die from insulin rationing, and was replaced by Jared Polis, a Gay man who’s running a pretty left administration right…

He should engineer a trade to the Pirates. 

As an Indians fan I will hope that Dyson gives up as many dingers as Blyleven did too.