If you did not select Cutting Edge as number one, we would have had beef. Clearly, you are smart. :)

I totally did. I just couldn’t believe it. My mind just couldn’t work out how she could add to an Olympic skating career by going to Stanford and becoming an orthopedic surgeon only to have it come crashing down and her end up living in a trailer park. I still don’t quite know how to make sense of that, only to say…

Don’t forget Katarina Witt vs. Debi Thomas in the Battle of the Carmens. To this day I still seethe at how Debi Thomas ended up with bronze to Katrina’s gold.

So damn heartbreaking. To be competing and winning for your country, your image being used to sell everything from Coca-Cola to Wheaties. Only to in essence feel completely silenced and effectively tossed aside when the next crop of young stars comes up 4 years later. I see some correlations here with combat vets. You…

OK, back in the day Tanya Harding was one of my favorite skaters before the whole “Why Me!?!?!” incident of course. But she always just seemed like the underdog you wanted to root for. Rough around the edges and having to work for everything and giving zero fucks. Watched the trailer, and gotta say. I’m here for it.…

Totally agree. Cross grew up in Roswell, GA. and suburb of ATL. His upbringing is not NYC or LA. I’m born and raised in the South and I can vividly remember school mates making these types of jokes like it was nothing. Shit, I had someone refer to another classmate as the N word in front of my face and not think a…

I jumped down here IMMEDIATELY to see if anyone else had commented. Terrible and no sound control. Ugh.

This was seriously one of the first things I thought when the story first broke, her response would have been fire....

Totally get it, we all have things that make us feel safer. Thanks for answering!

Yeah but she traveled in the very same celebrity circles, she dressed actresses (many of whom are probably victims of this monster) for red carpet events, worked with MUAs, stylists and hair stylists. Gossip goes around and if I, a complete outsider to this world, heard about this years ago, you can best damn believe…

He’s an MC, this is freestyle stream of conscious thought. This was how Hip Hop began. MCs would “battle” each other and free style rhymes on the street corners. The best would make mix tapes and that got shopped around the neighborhood and eventually made it on the radio. Eminem is one of the best there is. Think of…

I feel you on this. He also gets my props because he’s one of the few white rappers who truly gets Hip Hop the genre, treats it like an art form and gives respect to the POCs who created it and defined it.

Wow. I would never allow a gun in my home. Had this discussion with my partner early on. I can’t imagine having one in my nightstand. <serious question> What’s his reasoning? Do you guys live in a high crime area?

I think on the surface they are afraid of a faceless intruder. But racial biases run deeeeeeep. I bet if you asked your neighbors to draw who they feared would invade their home on paper, it would probably resemble the “black thug” bad guy instead of the white suburban addict. It’s subconscious but that fear has been…

The SEAL program is hard af to even get into so I’ll give him that. But something a lot of people fail to realize is that SEALs aren’t just selected for being tough guys, they are selected for their mental toughness and emotional stability and they weed out those who don’t have it, no matter how physically capable…

This also true, she could have handled this much better but she most likely didn’t want to.

Also this.

You are correct here. Master may control some breaks, but hard breaks are hard breaks and even local has no control over the network breaks. As evidenced by the :26 and :54 cut-ins from Roker to the locals. You’re ready for the hit or you end up looking foolish.

This. It always amazes me how the same dudes who couldn’t even make the JV football team 30 years ago somehow will develop Navy Seal levels of reflexes, situational awareness, mental toughness and marksmanship just by getting a gun at the local Wal-Mart. That we are even having to have the conversation around…

I’m accepting this as true, because I want to believe. Also it gives me the funnies.