This moment was the angriest I got as a Niners fan watching the game. Because, apparently, I’ve reached acceptance with Blaine Gabbert.

26/27ths of a no-hitter to boot.

Admitting it is the first step, I hope, because damn.

I’m sure Barry wouldn’t have, but I have to think a fair number of people would’ve blamed Showalter if Britton pitched the 11th and the Orioles ended up losing in, say, the 13th.

Yeah, I gotta be honest: I was more impressed with that goal.

And there are plenty of schools of literary criticism that regard it as at best reductive to interpret texts via the author’s personal history. Presuming that we ‘need’ this information presumes a very particular approach to literature.

#firmhandshakesallday?

Somebody’s not a hugger. Duly noted.

But think about, say, Dabo Swinney. Having a “position of authority over a lot of younger black men” doesn’t innoculate you from myopia regarding racism in this country, unfortunately.

In fairness, Atlanta and Detroit, together, have “hundreds of thousands more black residents” than Milwaukee.

Counterpoint: I’ve already decided what I believe and the data is inconvenient, the inconsequentiality of said belief notwithstanding.

In your first comment:

Oh, s**t: then I ought to have known better--he’s a really important social/political theorist. Gramsci was an Italian Marxist who died as a political prisoner of the Mussolini regime. In academia, I can say there are a fair number of committed antiracists who have been influenced (at the very least indirectly) by…

Why does everyone go apeshit for Breast Cancer Awareness Month? As in, why does breast cancer get its own month and even its own race?

I think the second sentence of your comment might make it look like you were serious. (It did for me.)

Yeah, for me the whole Jed-York-may-not-be-all-bad thing is the biggest mindf**k coming out of all of this stuff.

I like this. Any idea on the source?

All the g*ddamn stars, my brother.
Here’s an ironic GIF:

In fairness, “If you don’t like it, I will unfriend you” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Are you a power-tripping doctor or something? Spare us your overgeneralizations.