I feel like there is more to this family.

Can you direct me to where the line forms to punch this walking penis in the face.

Exactly who I pictured, and then verified with a google search:

His comments had everything to do about the game situation that just occurred and nothing else 

Are you by any chance familiar with Sturgeon’s Law?  Basically, most movies of any kind are trash.

I remember reading an interview with Chris Webber back in the 90's. He said when he was traded from Washington to Sactown as the plane approached Sactown he looked out and saw nothing but farms and empty land, started the cry and called home telling parents he’d rather quit than play there. His mom told him to suck…

The thing that sucks about teaching (I am married to a teacher) is that it is assumed you will work for free. And they do. They are contracted for a specific number of hours per year, but everyone knows that the number of hours are insufficient for prep, professional development and instruction time. So they work a…

Fuck I miss Splinter.

Camille Paglia

Daryl Morey, notedly averse to information

So a 45 year old dude in the front office had a 27 year old member of the team paying for drugs which he muled for the two. What is the over/under on employees in the Angels organization who knew this or heard rumors of this? 30? 40? 

You win.

one who’d like to preserve the perception of themselves as brave truth-tellers, but would prefer not actually having to engage in any of that risky truth-telling business.

I disagree with a lot of what you are saying here. I do wish that Kerr said more, but you can’t just jump from “he didn’t say what I wanted him to say about this issue” to “stick to sportzzzz!”

“I’m always super surprised by people married to predators who don’t seem to realize it. How much interalized misogyny must someone have before they accept some behaviour is beyond the pale.”

She originally filed for divorce in 2006 and accused him of “cruel and inhumane” treatment in the divorce papers. She also said he exhibited “extreme anger and hostility” toward her.

I agree with you (and Scocca) and I think it’s important to continue hammering the point that the NBA absolutely can and should pull out of China. But I also think it’s instructive to understand why it likely won’t: Because Silver, for all that he poses himself as the benign neoliberal CEO of the league, is actually…

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.

Gladwell: It’s just dumb to assume people who are really good at one thing can know anything about another subject. Anyway, buy my new book “I Know Everything,” available wherever books are sold.

The Paterno/McQueary conversation as it plays out in the fevered imaginations of Gladwell, Jenkins, et al: