The alt right is effectively hacking democracy. Control the information the right set of voters receive and they’ll elect any piece of shit we put in front of them. Use “free speech” to get repugnant beliefs a place in the marketplace of ideas and claim that protesting those repugnant beliefs is undemocratic and…

This will piss off W to no end because he LOVED owning a baseball team and (by all accounts) didn’t enjoy being a President.

The obligatory Greatest Throw of All Time (Bo Jackson taking down Harold Reynolds... which is awesome at a number of levels).

This is an excellent piece, but I don’t think Smirnoff gets where this country is at. Like a lot legal immigrants, he believes that when Trump and his enablers rail against them “well, they couldn’t possibly mean me.” Giri Nathan posted a GREAT explanation of this sort of delusion on the site:

This is an outstanding post. The “time-to-make-donuts” access maintenance bit is spot on and exactly why the notion of a liberal media is talk radio fan fiction.

I was recently reflecting on how much I missed George W. Bush and how I’d like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger run for elected office again. This is the feeble place I now reside in the context of the current administration.

The play-in games in the NCAA really haven’t hurt the tournament at all. Reserve six spots in group play for “play in” game winners. Have those briefly before the “real” tournament gets going (but at the sites of the main tournament). Call them “World Cup Games” (satisfying the goal of making more countries feel…

I will not dine with a woman who is not my wife (because everyone hates me).

The Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

I’m married to someone who integrated to this country and we speak a different language as a family (bilingualism being good and all). In the last year, we’ve had three “SPEAK ENGLISH!” incidents. I believe the people expressing this sentiment have been made considerably bolder by the current climate.

Who knew that a corrupt, corpulent diddler and an edgy ninth grader binging on Ayn Rand and old Rush albums wouldn’t be effective at governing? 

I went to the WBC game between Korea and Mexico in Anaheim in 2006. I’ve never had more fun at a baseball game and I didn’t even have a rooting interest in the outcome. The WBC is awesome and with immigrant culture in the U.S. (unless someone stamps that out or something), the games feel special... even if they are…

I think sports benefit from colorful teams like the A’s of the 70's. What has changed culturally and in sports that makes teams like these feel like beautiful relics?

Most people would be reluctant to bet their own safety on this premise—as the white guy gets angrier and emboldened, his racism gets more precise and nuanced—but some went ahead and did it anyway.

Nintendo will introduce their version of the service in 2027 and it won’t work.

Aaaaand... you’ve officially destroyed any chance of being productive for the rest of the day.

Good God... this is so perfect.

If he’s taken seriously, he looks sort of Hitler/Putin/Mussolini-ish. If he’s ridiculed and mocked by a lot of people, he starts to look like Pinky and the Brain. It may seem trivial, but perception is important.

Talking to normal, non-professor humans regularly has greatly helped my ability to solicit external funding and communicate with granting agencies :-).

Professor here. It’s a bizarre misapplication of peer review. Yes, if you have compelling new findings that contradict previous scholarship, you have to submit the data and your interpretation of it for peer review. This submission will probably be dense and likely only be understood by specialists, and that’s…