thorntonmelonjr
Thornton Melon
thorntonmelonjr

I mean, Eastern Oregon is about as Idaho as you can get. 

But so does Eastern Oregon.

I’m still bitter when they left the WAC for the greener pastures of the MWC. Would be soooooo happy to see them join the BIG XII, although it’ll probably never happen 

My undergraduate degree was in astrophysics. I decided not to try to pursue it as a career in part because of people like this author who do not understand the value of science or how amazing it is that astronomers can actually image a black hole (FYI: astronomers take photographs to gather data, not to make pretty

As did Sandra and Secretariat... he was all about diversity and inclusion.

I always thought of Craig Ferguson as pretty woke..

I’ve noticed that there seems to be the goal of finding *anything* bad about Pete Buttigieg and blowing it out of proportion. Dude has so little dirt on him and so many positive aspects that it must be driving the Splinter staff crazy.

“We just want to know why you didn’t, and why it took you so long to figure it out.”

Reed Richards would be impressed with that reach. 

Uh... yeah, that’s actually an acceptable response in my book. At the time, in early 2015, there was a difference between “All Lives Matter” and “all lives matter”, a distinction that has since been erased by conservative chuds relentlessly using the phrase in bad faith. The man was speaking to an audience in Indiana,

I suspect too many are dead to even start the game.

He’s not Black.

In a more just world, you’d have all the stars.

Fuck Ted Cruz. 

OOOhhhhh you can leave them a message and you don’t have to give your real name or real email address! I... may have just spent about 15 minutes doing exactly this. Fun!

The type of person to type the above rant is likely more isolated than Mts. Baker or Hood.

I’ve always wanted to do a UW tailgate on one of the boats on Lake Washington. Any rich UW alums reading Deadspin want to help a guy out?

Yeah. As a neutral observer, I wanted to see the humble fans of New England prevail because they always handle victory with unimaginable class.

Counterpoint: Fuck the Patriots.

As another long-suffering Mariners fan, 1. fuck you for that fatalism, and 2. you’re totally right.