Shit, thanks for the flag pin reminder. I almost forgot it.

Of all of the bizarre political twists and turns this country has taken, the strangest one is this: the fetishizing, and elevating, of symbolic gestures, while actual words and actions have become almost irrelevant.

Jezebel says that rape victims try to normalize their attacker and the situation. I say, we’ve spent a whole week talking about race. Let’s talk about the race of the attacker.

If Masina were white, I might agree with you. But Samoan is only a couple shades better than kaepernick so...

Although he will likely be kicked off the team, Penn State plans to honor him in a pre-game ceremony

Is this legit? Not doing the research myself.

It’s better than you can imagine. Written by John Tesh, and recorded in 2004.

To think that was filmed just last year when they discovered the Internet.

Any excuse to post this is a good thing.

No reason to panic, we’re a good team, we’ll just keep doing what we’re doing and we’ll win.

Everyone in Ann Arbor is nodding sadly.

Oh yeah, I forgot that he owns the Penguins (and hockey in general), but he doesn’t really count because he was a player whose contract basically enveloped the team he played for Blob-style. Plus, he’s Canadian, so his intrinsic niceness gives him an unfair advantage.

Look, the important thing is that we can all rest easy now knowing those sordid pictures in old Facebook posts were all blown to bits on that rocket.

Jason Pierre-Paul gives this an enthusiastic half thumbs up.

Seriously, is there an owner of any major professional sports franchise that’s not an absolutely awful person, or is my intuition correct that one simply cannot be let into that club until they are willing to abandon all traces of humanity within?

There is a pattern here but I can’t see it. Maybe after Nice pays FC Dynamo Kiev £12 million to take him it will become obvious.

Generally, it’s frowned upon to celebrate scoring against your former club (if you left on decent-enough terms) when playing in their barn. If he had scored and celebrated like a madman at Parc des Princes, cool. But at Stamford Bridge? Kiiiiind of a dick move.

Ballotelli’s transfer fee history:

You traveled about 15 steps there at the end, but I’ll allow it because fuck the Kincks.

Huh?