We all know why there are so many Skins fans in the south, right? And why there are so many black Cowboys fans in the DC area, right? I think there are plenty of Skins fans who would rather see them choke away the once-every-four-or-five-years Golden chance they have to see a division champ and playoff game than…

― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Looks like the folks who said none of the war criminals from the Bush administration will ever face justice spoke a little too soon.

Jesus Christ I hate the goddamned Broad Street Bully Flyers but that Gritty is pretty hilarious.

My “fav” bit of Hillbilly Elegy (a terrible overrated Horatio Alger tale) was when a few pages after he told a story about him using pay day loans to take a girl on a date, he complained about how poor people make dumb decisions with their money (with no sense of self awareness).

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Does Splinter even have any POC staff anymore? I get they had to cut staff, but why only the POC staff? I truly wish I had your cognitive dissonance to call out privileged white people for having a platform as a privileged white person with a platform and not have the slightest bit of irony or self-awareness. That…

10,000 words is like 20 pages of type. He did say, however, that it takes an average of 10,000 hours to master something.

I still think a team of American beats that team. It would be a team of someone’s nighttime imaginings. A Team of Dreams if you will.

I’m certainly not here to defend Gladwell by any stretch, but The Tipping Point and Blink were both huge best sellers. He had an incredibly lucrative career before Outliers ever hit shelves.

You missed the part where Gladwell specifically asked Simmons to be on the podcast to drop these ramblings of a lunatic. He came up with this idea and said “I simply MUST get this out into the world as fast as humanly possible”. 

This is what middle managers think smart people sound like.

Because that’s where black people in the West Indies came from Nigeria, or west Africa probably.

The video of his vertical leap test at Duke made me question how gravity affects mass.  If you haven’t seen it, take a look.

It’s stupid that the NBA makes him waste a year of his career at Duke. 

Nick Saban did recruit a kid at MSU who was widely known to have raped a developmentally disabled 13 year old, charged with it and still went to MSU on Saban’s watch, but you will Knott see that talked about very much. Kelly is probably worse, but Saban is a monster too. 

“From my own experience, Mensa customer service is lacking.”

I would actually think a major factor in older contestants doing poorly in Jeopardy is getting the timing of the buzzer down. From my own experience, if your competitor is just a fraction of a second quicker on the buzzer, you’re never coming close to winning, and worse, when you do get a chance to answer, your own…

Erin Andrews is not a kid....