To be fair, Lochte probably doesn’t know the difference.

I hope this has been mentioned around here before, and I don’t expect anyone cares, but historically “man” was a gender-neutral term (back in the middle ages the prefixes wer- and wif- specified “male man” or “female man”). This has a legacy in our modern language in the same sort of way that words that came to us…

Are there any substances prevelant in South America you COULD get in trouble for procuring?

You mean when she ran slower than the winner?

Update (1:51 p.m.): The Cardinals say they have hired the person responsible for playing the song:

I agree, and I’ll add that “smack my bitch up” means “shoot me up,” meaning heroin. It has nothing to do with what most people think it does.

Shit. Let me try again then:

#HotTake: This was intentionally done by a team employee who 1) thought it would be funny or 2) was making a statement about the team trading for him. Because the chance that this was a random occurrence- that song for that player- is zero.

Smack my bitch up is not a bad song. It is a good song.

Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.

We witness a very deep strategic move implemented by Matheny in this game. A lot of managers would try to hang tough after falling behind 7-0 early in the game. Matheny, on the other hand, gave up on the game, hoping all the extra runs scored by the Cubs would exhaust them. With two more games at Wrigley, you gotta…

This is literally the one ostensibly good thing about the Olympics, the thin veneer of international cooperation and friendship, and these assholes hate the Jews too much to even pay lip service to that.

Egyptians have a long history of losing to Jews though

“There is a precedent of Muslim athletes refusing to compete against or be around Israeli athletes”

Why couldn’t 2016 just take the guy from Spin Doctors instead?

I love that you love the film.

No, it wasn’t. It wasn’t terrible, but it was a mediocre, formulaic action comedy that SHOULD have been better, given the cast and director. But the script was frankly weak and it never really came together. I wanted to like it a lot more than I did.

Motoko might be Japanese but her body isn’t. this is a plot point in the manga and the original anime movie.

I guess they win the “Greenest Olympics ever” title.

Yes, it was great to hear a commentator correct that. He said “no she doesn’t! She swims like Katie Ledecky!”