Your first paragraph was basically my response when a bunch of my nerd buddies were squeeing about the possibility of Marvel getting the X-Men back. I might wish for various reboots, but the consolidation of media power can be pretty alarming.

Although he may best be remembered for his no hitter/perfect game with the Phillies, Halladay will always be a Blue Jay, especially since he was still flying south for the winter.

This sucks in a way that’s hard to put into words. Halladay is someone I’d have driven to Cooperstown to see his induction. A personal hero from back when I still had those.

We could cut him up into several pieces and ship them to all his home countries?

Regarding the notion that Black people ‘did not build’ the UK, if it weren’t for the money that the UK reaped through colonialism (sugar, cotton, tar, etc), the UK would not have been an indistrial nation. So yeah, thanks Richard Spencer, we DID actually build it.

One thing that I don’t think gets enough attention is how much this tax plan will fuck over graduate students

It’s funny ‘cause America is so preoccupied with its own slide into fascism that we barely notice when a Turkish NBA player is being hunted down by his government for hurting Erdogan’s fee-fees.

57-11-7, on 68% shooting, in his 15th year in the league. Only the second player ever to drop 55+ in his 15th season or later (the other was Kobe, on his last ever NBA game when he put up 50 shots).

With all respect to JR, I think the appropriate wrestling commentary reference here is KINSHASAAAA!

I’m pretty proud of the commentariat for not going low and telling you to go fuck yourself and that Pop is the best.

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“I’m not surprised that ***all production companies*** likely turned a blindeye to what appears to be systematic harassment and abuse as for years ...”

If you don’t think Simmons and Embiid are among the most interesting players to watch in the NBA, then you, sir, are a crap fan.

On the other hand, why should I give two shits what right wing publications think about anything whatsoever?

Singers will be especially messy because he threw parties. There were lots of older rich dudes at those twink fests. It will be gross, messy and super scandalous. Or maybe the collective older rich dudes money will keep it away? Does society care about unknown twinks? The only reason Spacey is finally getting in…

That’s a fairly ahistorical take. The USSR experienced the most sudden and dramatic improvement in general quality of life ever seen (barring a drop during WWII, which duh) and eventually even ended the famine cycle that had plagued Russia under the Tsars. Also there’s the whole winning WWII thing, defeating (with…

These fucking treason apologists who support the south and their war against the land they claim to love (AKA the United States) always remind me of Yosemite Sam and that weird southern dude who would pop up in various Bugs Bunny cartoons. “We call it The War Between The States. There was nothing CIVIL about that war!”

If you’re short on time, here’s the TL/DR version:

As Ta-Nehasi Coates was reminding people on twitter: 3/5s of a person was already a compromise. Missouri was a compromise. Lincoln’s election platform was a compromise. The road to the civil war was paved in compromises that never managed to be enough for the slaveholders of the south.

If only the Confederates had been allowed to enslave human beings a little bit that whole Civil War thing could have been avoided.