Please don’t take this as my defending McQueary in any way, but do you know the percentage of people who will do nothing when they witness something like this? It’s pretty damn high. Basically everyone says “Oh yeah, I would stop it,” but in the moment your brain doesn’t work that way. I know this because I was…

You’re not wrong to be critical of him, but also put yourself in his shoes for a second.

Agreed. Intellectual arguments don’t matter to a person who’s struggling and didn’t go to college. These people aren’t too stupid to understand (they’re actually fairly smart) but they don’t have the luxury to think about it -- they just want change for the better for them asap. The struggling people who do have time…

We’re talking about fourth down as time expires and the team with the ball has a lead, in which case they are not attempting to advance the ball at all but instead are attempting to prevent the other team from scoring. In all practical terms, they are the defensive team.

I really thought you were talking about your aldermen.

Would the local building code allow him to build a 15' tall solid fence extending from his garage to the sidewalk? I doubt it, because it would look horrible and disrupt everybody’s view. By parking a trailer that rarely moves he’s essentially done that though, and he’s a dickhole because he refuses to work with his…

there are a lot of things you CAN do, but because of common decency you shouldn’t. this is a guy who doesn’t give a fuck if what he does annoys other people, because he has the “right”. doesn’t m ake it illegal, just makes him an asshole

parking a 25 foot trailer in his driveway. did you not read the article?

“I looked around the room and everyone had their heads down. And I said no.”

Yeah! Like an asshole that wants to eat, and pay rent, and stuff. Unbelievable! Getting a job. And then doing it! What an asshole.

Do you think garbagemen want to pick up garbage?

why don’t some of the employees that won millions help chip in?

Gawker comments were a heterogenous mixture of self-congratulatory echo chamber/group therapy and unbridled bigotry of the greys. Deadspin has always been a much better place for honest, substantive discussion.

Really?

Where the hell are you talking about? I grew up in a wealthy area in New England and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those out there. Old Volvo and Mercedes wagons, sure. My family had a Land Rover Discovery. But a Sable? What?

Wrong. The Vice President is a CRUCIAL pick because of it’s importance as a stepping stone to the Presidency. It has to be a flashy and sexy pick so that person can glide into being POTUS after their 8 year VP stint

I think it’s important that Kaine is actually, genuinely, a good person, which is a very sharp contrast with Pence and Trump regardless of their mutual lily whiteness.

Doesn’t the guy have an impressive and important civil rights background, above everything else? Isn’t that kind of a helpful thing in this political climate and in the years to come?

I’m pretty sure the question of whether one is an asshole depends on whether you return your shopping cart to where it goes, or just let it roll around the parking lot.

Because that is completely ridiculous from a business standpoint. Why build a redudant factory? That is a recipe for layoffs.