My only comment is tangential. The US is not the most racist country in the world. Not even close. That is a survey that must have been taken by people who have never left the US. What the US is is the country most vocal about race rights and most admitting of its problems with race. That doesn’t mean it’s the country…

Two things going on here. The first is that most men get aggressive at sports competitions from time to time. I don’t have an explanation for it, but it’s true. I am probably about the most passive guy you would ever meet. My friends in college actually nicknamed me ‘doormat.’ 90% of the time when I play a sport, I…

I don’t think they are. Traditionally the electorate has always been center-right in the US and I know that there’s a movement left, but I don’t think it’s that far left. She’s advocating for a lot of things that are going to be disruptive, expensive and in some cases simply impossible. If you’re talking job…

I’m not sure this is a problem. Every sport is like that. Offensive linemen don’t get their due in football. Defensive players don’t get it in soccer. Catchers don’t in baseball. It’s not really a problem in any other sport. Of all of OWL’s issues, putting too much emphasis on offense over support doesn’t seem to rank…

It’s really not that unbelievable. A single Nats season ticket behind homeplate is about 20 grand. He puts them on his credit card. His disclosure comes due and since the debt exists he has to report it. The guys pay him back and all is well. It was only on a single year of his financial disclosures so it doesn’t seem…

Of course, the ‘n word’ comes from the Spanish ‘negro’ simply meaning black and had no racist connotations until at least the 17th century and in the 18th century west was used of all races to mean ‘guy.’ Whites would call each other the ‘n word.’ So according to this logic, calling people the ‘n word’ is A-OK because…

I think the problem with that is that it’s too easy to confuse the two. There’s rarely an outward signifier of what a person’s political beliefs are, but there are plenty of outward signifiers of race and class. It is similar to the ‘subset’ defense of racism - “I’m not racist, I just don’t like ‘those kind’ of black…

Also, the City Museum. It’s like an interactive art museum/playground inside an old industrial building. It’s very worth going to. If you have kids, it’s can’t miss. We passed through on a road trip last summer and it was a very pleasant surprise that my nine-year-old still talks about.

To be fair, Trae Young was being guarded by Jevon Carter all night. They played against each other in college and Carter is a defensive wizard. His first two shots were rush shots after they managed to switch Carter off of him. Trae scored all of his points after they moved Carter or he had fouled out. It would be equa…

But it’s MLS, so is it really a sport? :)

I would caution reading too much into this. The NY 14th is the kind of place that Democrats have held forever. It’s nearly 50% foreign born and majority Hispanic. The messages that resonate there actually aren’t going to help them win much of anything because they are places that are impossible to lose. Energizing the …

The difference of course is one of power and voice. It doesn’t mean that it’s acceptable for either side to stereotype the other, but the consequences of being stereotyped by the majority within major media with a far-reaching voice are much different than being stereo-typed by a minority within the memesphere. Of…

There’s a whole culture of language around black and white athletes. White athletes are workers, gritty, high IQ, gym-hounds. Black athletes are gifted, talented, natural athletes. White athletes that keep the ball are ‘putting the game on their shoulders’ and ‘willing their team to win.’ Black athletes who do the…

The GOP has always been a free market party. They typically advocate for trade agreements with few restrictions. This has been the case for pretty much ever. NAFTA was a Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush vehicle that was largely negotiated under Republican administrations and signed in the early Clinton years.…

It’s largely oxidation of the polyurethane, but also degradation in the presence of water. There’s really no way to deal with it, even in a vacuum, the plasticizer in the polyurethane could seep out making it brittle. The only real way to stop it would be to store it in a container completely filled with a…

#2 has a lot to do with it. Trout is just a workhorse. There’s nothing special about his personality. He has dated the same girl since he was 14 (whom he recently married) and she is a generically pretty blonde woman and just a normal person with no crazy vices of her own. He doesn’t seem to go out and party. He…

Russia has universal healthcare. Yep, corrupt crazy autocratic Russia gives free healthcare to its citizens. They also subsidize childcare and the average cost in Moscow is about 40 bucks a month for the first child and 20 a month for any subsequent children. They also get six-months of paid maternity leave, so…

One thing though that is being excluded are private schools. What’s interesting about your list is that it almost exactly meshes up with the metros with the smallest percentage of kids in private schools. When you’re using raw numbers rather than percentages, it skews things. Rural areas will look worse than they are…

Hockey is definitely the best sport to see in person, but I enjoy baseball as well. Baseball is a social sport. The game serves as a backdrop to getting together with friends and family. The fans are more low-key and you can get excited at a good play, but you don’t mind wandering the concourse confident that you…

So, Clemente over Robinson? Bold.