The victims are clearly attention-seeking, and they’ve been pretty successful at getting attention. Since a few national sources have now picked up the story, this has to have worked even better than they could have hoped.

oh look at the pampered little snowflakes flying around the country to play a damn game. in my day, if a game was more than 100 miles away, the team would just ride a bus. less than 100 miles, they jogged it.

It’s up to whomever set up the accounts to decide how much money to ask for, and there are a lot of reasons why the funds for the two Garmin employees might have asked for much less money. You’re not wrong about the world being a fucked up place right now, but this is a silly trigger for outrage.

This is, maybe, the worst it has ever been:

stfu, idiot.

i couldn’t quite suss out what this comment was trying to say, but i starred it anyway because i love the enthusiasm and also the thought of trevor bauer being stuffed with stem cells

You probably meant to type that he’ll have “aides.” That is the word that would have made sense in context. It’s an easy mistake to make, and is unfortunately the kind of mistake spell check can’t catch.

Oh, so you socialists up there in Maine were too sensitive to decapitate a few Germans to play dodgeball with their heads? Sorry, SNOWFLAKE.

As a Cubs fan...HOLY FUCK REMEMBER WHEN WE WON THE WORLD SERIES OMGGG HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!

More fake news from Deadspin. Sad!

Maher is an unctuous left-libertarian who happens to be able to think quickly and to give narratives just enough of a twist that lazy, self-styled “outside the box” thinkers really gravitate toward him. He’s kind of the patron saint of lazy, white, half-liberals who never mature past the point of being impressed with…

Do you think Palin is dumber than Quayle was? She’s certainly less polished, and almost definitely more toxic, but in terms of good old fashioned pure, raw stupidity I think it’s a close race.

Not if they are part of a pattern of powerful agencies that are not even nominally accountable to voters (the FBI, the CIA, etc) arrogating power for themselves through various means including pressuring/discrediting administrations or influencing elections through leaks. In that case, the precedent is almost…

I think this is sort of a dumb take, but I am way into the Chilli Davis ref, so I’m starring it.

You just fact checked his throwaway jokey metaphor. A+

I mean, I also hate to watch young people have the kind of fun I’m completely incapable of having, but in that situation you just roll your eyes and check your phone or something. There’s a fine line between being a mild curmudgeon and a poopy-pantsed dickface and sooner or later grownups need to learn to stay on the…

Norm performed a stand-up set at my small, uptight liberal arts college and I was one of the SGA nerds who got to go pick him up at the airport and drive him to campus. The fifteen minute drive from the airport to campus was one of the funniest 15 minutes of my life. His slurred, off the cuff, sloppy, nonchalant…

I think you’re just being deliberately cheeky, because I’m pretty sure you’re too smart to be so facile obliviously, but just to be clear, there are several different kinds of leaks. There are two types of leaks that always concern me, whether they happen to be helping or hurting causes I support: leaks that come from…

I agree with you down the line, and I’d just like to add that in the comments section of the other post you’re referring to, I saw several people take the line “But if you denounce this then you have to denounce South Park and Family Guy too but no one could ever not like those shows so therefore this is fine.”