McGregor shouldn’t have been allowed to fight Mayweather based on his record and abilities and the biggest reason he did may have been because he was white with enough white fans to make this mega-$$ fight possible, BUT in this case there was no bureaucracy or governing bodies to blame. The fight wasn’t for a belt or…

It can be even simpler than that: vote. Not just once every two to four years, but regularly for local elections too. Minorities by definition don’t have the numbers to vote out the racist sheriffs and DAs and congressmen and senators by themselves. It’s a bare-minimum start.

He was a favourite of mine too, but Jyrki wasn’t bad. I loved the way he seemed to be able to accelerate while gliding and not moving his feet.

It’s the “veterans who earned them the right to be on that field” that bugs me more than the “draft dodger” mistake. The last war that potentially protected any of our rights and freedoms ended more than 70 years ago.

I sieve what you did there!

Are memorials to anonymous Confederate soldiers (eg, “here lie the men from such-and-such an infantry company”) as bad and needed to be taken down at the same time monuments to specific southern generals and leaders? FWIW, a lot of German towns and villages have memorials to WWII Wehrmacht soldiers; most times it’s…

Curious as to opinions on memorials to generic Confederate soldiers and conscripts vs monuments to specific Confederate leaders. Both should probably be removed, but in my mind the specific monuments are much worse than the generic memorials, particularly if the generic memorials also have generic descriptions (eg…

I microwave my wet sponge for three minutes every few days, it keeps the smell away.

A question from someone who watches almost no football at all: how much different and how much less entertaining would the sport be if all the hitting away from the line of scrimmage was replaced by rugby-style tackling?

He collected $235 for booze? Good for him, I’d want a drink or two myself if I was in such a crappy situation. In fact I hope he collects enough for a hooker too, to take his mind off things for a while; I’ll gladly chip in.

“Some kid who probably would have gotten probation at the most decides that it would be better to just be dead? Does that make sense to anyone?”

“Is it the media?”

McEnroe’s argument (Serena is not the greatest because a couple hundred men could beat her) isn’t even a good one from a sports point of view. Many, maybe even most boxing experts think of Sugar Ray Robinson as the greatest boxer of all time, better than Ali even. However, having fought primarily in the lightweight to…

No, that’s a famous pictures of Polish Jews being forced out of a home in the Warsaw Ghetto during their uprising in 1943. They’re most likely on their way to a concentration camp and death. So while LNM’s comment is mostly inaccurate as other commenters here pointed out, his first thought is correct: comparing ICE to…

Kudos to the authors and many commenters here for not replacing all mentions of “Germans” with “Nazis.” Germans themselves are quite well aware of their history and have been good at owning it, otherwise they wouldn’t be trusted as much as they are by other Europeans now. But for some reason, I’ve been running into…

Interesting article. As a Pole now living in Canada I sometimes wonder what it’s like for non-white people living in or even visiting Eastern Europe. Experiences of a few Asian friends who visited Poland align with what’s written here: they got a lot of stares, and were sometimes uncomfortable, and they may have…

Boxing is dead-ish in America, but it’s doing better than ever in Europe and still doing fine in other countries with boxing tradition.

I haven’t been this thoroughly amused by an article from beginning to end in a long time. And I’m not even a pet owner.

I don’t think McGregor can win by landing “just one punch.” Mayweather’s chin was almost never tested, but on the few occasions it was, it stood up pretty well. One punch knockouts below light-heavyweight are pretty rare in boxing, even great punchers like Tito Trinidad didn’t have that many.

Disappointing. Well into the 21st century you’d hope they’d beheading in the right direction and not committing stupid faux pas like this.