Scanned through the linked study, but didn’t see it (and don’t have time to read in-depth) - how to they get to the lost “quality of life” cost? That’s an awfully subjective number.

I like the mental imagery of a scale-bedecked knight bludgeoning another knight with a butthole on a stick.

“Yielding my asshole” #corrections

Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it!

Aaaall of this.

What Caitlin Goldblatt has omitted from her narrative are three key points:

1) The “well-appointed” elementary school that was slated for closure, Langston Hughes, was hardly closed by the Baltimore City School Board - a mixed-race group chaired by a black man http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/Page/24788 - due to…

Caitlin, aren't you the lying hack who accused the woman getting her purse stolen during the Baltimore riots of being the actual thief? Fuck off, you ugly cunt.

The “nowhere else to ride” argument is so stupid. It sucks that it’s the case, but if you want a place to legally ride dirtbikes, leave the city. I live in East Harlem too, and these guys are a menace. I’ve seen them smash into cars and just leave - not like it matters, because they’re uninsured anyway. Most of the…

We have the dirt bikers here in Harlem, too. They ride all over the neighborhood, and the stunts they do are very impressive. But they are very dangerous, and very loud. They always say that they ride in the streets because they have nowhere else to ride. I’d love to have a dirt bike park for them, but I seriously…

So riding these bikes through the city is illegal, but the police trying to stop the event are the bad guys?

Oh, absolutely, on both fronts. But a huge caveat about things that are illegal but ethical doesn’t make my post all nice and neat, and we can’t be having that.

“Yes/No: That’s... kinda weird? But don’t do it, unless you don’t mind the consequences!”

Not that weird - there are certainly organizations that offer services that are illegal in their local jurisdiction that I don’t consider unethical at all (abortion, assisted suicide, selling pot).

I’d also advise doing what you…

1. Is the thing you are required to do for work illegal?
2. Is the thing you are required to do for work unethical?

Yes/Yes: Don’t do that thing!
No/No: Do that thing!
Yes/No: That’s... kinda weird? But don’t do it, unless you don’t mind the consequences!
No/Yes: Ethics are subjective, and hypothetically the law represents…

I hope they didn’t try and flush it out of their systems by drinking water, it could only become more powerful.

The best part about Deadspin doing Jeter posts is that in the suggested reading I get to be reminded of the amazing “ollies off bitches titties” story.

This is like Tobias from Animorphs. :D

A couple of those examples (say, how the slaves brought important knowledge) seem less like attempts at making slavery into a positive thing, and more of a very clumsy attempt to document some kind of... agency or personhood for people who are often only depicted as helpless, faceless, no-impact victims.

Is this gonna be the start to another one of Jezebel’s “White People Aren’t Allow to Say ___” miniseries? Pharrell did not invent or even popularize this word. If anything, the rec soccer coaches of white suburbia did more to spread its usage than anyone else.

Isn't that referring to the noun rather than the adjective?

Uh, I doubt he logged onto his 1999 Packard Bell computer and snickered gently to himself as he selected “Foster Child - Now With 100 Percent Less Parents!” from the screen. He probably didn’t give two shits about where she was from - just that she was willing to take his money in exchange for whatever the fuck he…