“Robert E. Lee” came in second.

Oh, is this what we’re doing today? Trolling using history?

Look, man. It’s News, OK? What more do you want from us? Shit.

Eh, I get your point, but nobody said that about Bush in 2000. Remember, 9/11 hadn’t happened yet. The argument against him, at the time, was that he was an unqualified, unserious, culturally retrograde doofus running against the sitting Vice President.

Don’t forget about Oscar’s Razor!

>the internet’s slightly-smarter-than-average suburban teens

Again, finding it personally distasteful is fine. I do! But making more out of it than that is pretty weird, considering that whatever personal trait it demonstrates evidently did not stop Cam Newton from being the best player in the NFL this season and taking his team to the Super Bowl.

Well, we already know he’s drinking piss.

With this addition of Matt LeBlanc to the cast the BBC also announced that they will be changing the name of the show from Top Gear to Always Stuck In Second Gear.

Just fyi, Deadspin’s official editorial policy is that the Chargers holding an option on moving to LA is the same as them having done so; they can eat shit until they decline the option, and for that matter if they do they can eat shit for having lorded it over their fans in the meantime.

Might as well transfer. I feel like that guy has simply imploded over the last few seasons.

First Kyle transfers. Then Kyler is considering transferring. If Kylest goes, it’ll be really bad.

A dumber first name?

These are not the 72 virgins they were expecting.

Only literally every time we’ve written about them.

They should just name their lineup Hyundai Genesis, MegaDrive, Master System, Saturn, Neptune, 32X, CD, and Dreamcast while they’re at it.

You're treating his low poll numbers as if they themselves are not an effect. They are. They reflect a party doing everything it can to streamline the process for its chosen candidate.

C’mon, Lincoln Chafee made that stage. The argument isn’t that Lessig was credibly running for president, but that while Chafee and Jim Webb were allowed on stage, he was deemed unworthy of getting four or five minutes of time on national TV to raise important issues on which he actually has things to say.