But irrationally liking everything isn't the only alternative to cynicism. Can you imagine going on a date with someone who never read a book, saw a movie, or met a person they didn't like? That's what watching Jimmy Fallon feels like to me. You can occasionally say something interesting without also being a cynic.…

"Most of the Adult Swim lineup..."

The fact that Fallon is so popular makes me feel old. Which is insane, because I'm in my early 30s. He's terrible, and I will never understand what "the kids" see in him.

It's not just the viral videos. Corden is a really nice guy, but he isn't funny, laughs way too hard at all his own bad jokes, and seems completely uninterested in asking his guests anything interesting. He just wants to be every celebrity's best friend. Basically, CBS hired a Fallon clone.

Some of these are surprising, but not crazy (I figured Reggie White or at least 7 different Steelers would have won Pennsylvania), but a few are so random and weird there have to be explanations I'm missing. Ozzie Smith winning S. Carolina? Sandberg in Alabama? Namath in Iowa? Mantle in Idaho? I wonder how many of…

Of course it matters. First of all, this has been covered a lot lately, including a lengthy piece on this site, so to get that basic fact wrong is weird and lazy. Second, and most important, the last time Serena was at this tournament, she WON. She was an 18-year-old who was having racial slurs hurled at her by…

The first baseman is 3, not 1, but otherwise I think you've got it right.

Whoever the announcer is saying "That's kinda cool" is making the most unenthusiastic call of a great play since Joe Buck was seemingly half asleep during the David Tyree catch.

If you interpreted that as him saying it as a negative, you are being extraordinarily generous. You really believe that, in a list of things that were otherwise all clearly meant to be positive, he just happened to throw in that one "negative", without qualification or changing his tone at all? What human being talks…

After 30 Rock, any Tina Fey show that deals with racial stereotypes is going to come with a lot of skepticism. 30 Rock featured at least three instances of blackface (Jane Krakowski might be the only active actor who has worn blackface multiple times on television). If Fey was a known Republican, people would have…

It was literally illegal for black people to live or work in Oregon until 1926. I'm pretty sure Cowherd violently masturbates while reading Oregon's original state constitution.

John Adams, the of officiating for NCAA basketball, just went on TV and said, with a completely straight face, that the ball had a chance to go in. Kenny Smith tried to politely call bullshit, but Adams was having none of it.

Once a year Ron Hunter coaches an entire game barefoot to raise awareness for Samaritan's Feet, a group that donates shoes to kids who can't afford them. Between that and the fact that they have Kevin Ware, I was rooting irrationally hard for Georgia State. When that shot went in, I lost my mind.

I disagree. This is exactly the kind of thing you absolutely would not see in a good comicm and that's the problem. I cannot think of a single great artist, writer or editor in Cap's history who would have done that. Mark Gruenwald would have lost his mind if someone tried to put that in a Cap comic.

A few weeks ago Curt Schilling went to Twitter to congratulate his daughter on getting into college, and naturally some asshole sports fans took the opportunity to threaten her with sexual violence. Schilling was having none of that shit. He somehow tracked a few of them down and outed them. One was immediately fired…

It looks like the last #1 pick to skip the draft was Dan Wilkinson in 1994.

I think it's a combination of two things. Racism, which you already pointed out, is the biggest factor. But another part of it is simply that every generation thinks the generation that comes after them is lazier/spoiled. Every time the Barkleys, Oakleys and Wilbons of the world start yelling at clouds, I think to…

During 30 Rock's run there were three different instances of characters wearing blackface. Jane Krakowski did it twice! And somehow no one seemed to care until Jon Hamm did it.

Good God. I just realized that movie came out 20 years ago.

Seriously, what the fuck was that chef analogy? "You know how great chefs always identify other up-and-coming great chefs?" No, I don't know that. You don't know that. NO ONE knows that.