I’m hoping for a Defector.com style car site. Bring back Steph, Jason, David, and so many. Defector has proven it can be a viable business. I would love to see a Defector.com style gaming site, with all the great talent that left Kotaku. Spanfeller and his ilk are the ones driving all this, causing such amazing talent…

That sort of frustration isn’t unusual for top-level athletes, and yeah...there’s something of a pattern there. When she was penalized for threatening a line official, she was a couple points away from being upset by Kim Clijsters. Her 2011 blow-up came while she was losing to Sam Stosur. She’s a fantastic player, but…

Maybe we should put together a highlight reel of Serena acting like a child and threatening umpires.

Gotta agree. Osaka outplayed her, no question. I feel bad she couldn’t enjoy this victory, because she earned it.

The umpire was right on all three of those calls. It sounds like Williams thought the “coaching” warning was rescinded because she told the umpire she’s not a cheater, but of course that’s not how that penalty works. The call is made against the coach (who admitted he was coaching from the stands), so the player can’t…

Can we please stop with the Serena worship? She’s a titan of tennis, a superb athlete, but she’s not without flaws, without her faults. She’s petulant, and this isn’t the first or worst instance of abusing an official in her career.

This was so hard to watch. I hope Naomi Osaka knows she would have won this match on her own if all of this shit hadn’t happened.

You’re an equal partner and side of the same coin of the “media” you protest so much against. You’re a Breitbart writer for the left. Nothing more, possibly less.

I don’t get the sense that this writer could possibly have lived more than 5, maybe 7 years as an adult. This ultimately comes off superficial and douchy.

The long and short of it, that McCain was a human being - he had his good moments, even heroic ones, he had his bad moments. Paul Blest seems to see it as a service to readers to sort McCain into one of two available drawers and choses the one labeled “bad”. When in fact everybody should be in the one called “gray”. 

There may not be a shitstorm to wait for; while armchair pundits and bloggers can shit all over anyone they want at any time, politicians have to be a little more circumspect in how they treat others—even ideological opponents.

The conventional social custom is to not actively shit on a human being immediately after…

He was not perfect. None of us are. I didn’t like his politics or most of his policies but occasionally he did what was right for the entire country. Why can’t he be both? No one is black and white.

What with cancer being a slow way to die, I’m sure this article was largely written months ago. I’m no particular fan of McCain, but even *I* think it was in poor taste to hit “publish” before the body was cold.

He fucking misspoke. The fact that he’d never said that before, never said it again, and it’s contradicted by the rest of what he’s saying should make it clear that the man in his late 70s at the time got jumbled up when speaking. Jesus.

You are.

No, he didn’t, you dipshit.

Even Alexandria Cortez-Ocasio sent out a tweet unambiguously praising him. If the democrats have a problem, it’s their fringe element not being able to tolerate even the blandest platitudes being expressed about a dead guy.

I think McCain’s legacy can be summed up rather succinctly: He was never the worst person in the room.

As I posted in Rafi Schwartz’s article, McCain was absolutely no saint. However, there are other GOP’ers whose graves are/will be far more worthy of pissing on: Pence, McConnell, Ryan, Sessions, Cruz, Rubio, Nunes, Hunter, Walker, Santorum, Huckabee, Hannity, Carlson...

Look the guy was not perfect, and you don’t have to agree with everything he has said... And more then a few Democrats where going to vote for him over this inexperienced Obama guy not so long ago... Well until Palin... then it was a no brainer, and most likely lost him that election.

He did what he felt was best and…