I love Australia. I’ve traveled there, and a couple of my best friends are Aussies. It’s a great country full of some wonderful people. But the casual racism that you encounter there is well beyond anything I’ve ever encountered in North America. Not that people here don’t think those things, but they seem to be a lot…

Popovich 2020. “I’m With Him”.

I’m a black guy born and raised in Toronto, and while things here certainly aren’t perfect, there are literally hundreds of American towns and cities worse off than we are. Drive an hour outside of the city in any direction and things change, sometimes quite dramatically, but having spent a lot of time traveling and…

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I’m not a huge fan of Hillary, but seriously, how is this election even close?

She was a woman with a gay son who opposed equal rights for women and homosexuals. That level of self-hate and hypocrisy is nothing short of spectacular.

Bye Felicia!

Whatever party emerges from the rubble after Trump has finished destroying the GOP will have her on its presidential ticket within 20 years. On top of that, she is going to be a bazillionaire. It is not possible to be that blonde, and that stupid in America, and not succeed spectacularly.

Instead of the tired old “black-on-black violence” trope, why not just stick your fingers in your ears and scream “LA! LA! LA!”? Functionally, it’s the same thing.

It should seem absurd to have the people sworn to “serve and protect” citizens as well as the elected officials and others who defend them using the acts of…

I keep an old phone around so that my 5 year-old can play some games and practice spelling words offline so as to not bother anyone. Someone should get Weiner an old phone that he can play on.

Two weeks ago I finally saw the Weiner documentary in all of its cringe-inducing glory. After watching it, I find it incomprehensible that he could get caught again. There is some type of compulsion at work here that he’s unable to control. I say that because no human being could actually be that stupid.

An old white man behaved like an old white man. I don’t agree with anything that he said, but how is this news?

This. A thousand times this. I was living there during the World Cup in 2002, and right-wingers in the government along with the “gaijin superstars” were all up in arms about the impending waves of rape and violence that were inevitably going to befall peaceful, perfect Nippon. Yeah, nothing happened.

I lived in Japan for nearly a decade and was tired of your type of gaijin within the first 30 minutes. Get over yourself. Having other foreigners around will not detract from your own “gaijin superstar” status, which you clearly hold so dear. You sound like one of the right-wing clowns barking their nonsense from a…

How is this “joke” still even considered funny? There have been black people in Canada since before there was a Canada.

It was probably 6 or 7 years ago that I sat down at my computer and just read up on him for fun one night. I was always aware that he was a great basketball player, and had been for a very long time at that point. But it was that evening that I realized that he was very quietly having one of the greatest careers by…

It’s too bad that cops don’t get as upset at their fellow cops for killing civilians as they do at civilians who dare point it out.

It’s already been mentioned, but post-retirement Barry Bonds seems like a really nice guy. It’s very difficult to reconcile with his past persona. While I don’t think that players “owe” it fans or the media to be friendly and/or personable all the time, I have to admit that I like this Barry Bonds better. I wish he…

$130K is a decent salary, but it is by no means “a lot” of money in Toronto in 2016. Especially if you’re single. On that salary, there’s no way that he could buy a house by himself. The average price of a detached is now well over $1 million, and semis aren’t too far behind. A shitty King west condo (which sounds…

Ultimately this is a futile question as basketball, and the men who play it, have changed so much over the years. Babe Ruth would still mash home runs today, but a decent Division I team would likely dominate the NBA of the 1950s and ‘60s.

I am a member in good standing of the cult of Michael Jordan. He’s a terrible…