Or even another decade or two when he was trying to maintain segregated schools. Read more

It was way nicer when racism had a nice sheen of plausible deniability. That allowed us to think of ourselves as decent people! Read more

I was talking to my friend this morning and I said a Biden vs. Trump general election would be “allowing republicans and people who are essentially republicans but don’t like how Trump acts to decide the election by watching the two candidates turn a big dial that says ‘racism’ and telling them when to stop with their… Read more

Aging white people love being told things were better when they were younger, and there are lots and lots of those people in the electorate.
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This new racist shit is scary, take me back a couple decades to when Joe Biden was busy solidifying permanent political consensus regarding the war on drugs and mass incarceration please. Read more

“Son” is a verb, dude. Read more

Finally livin’ your best life, huh Magic? Read more

One time I played against a guy smoking a cigarette. The combination of awe, pity, smoke, and concern that I would get hot ash in my eye rendered him unguardable.
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This is how I stay effective at work too. Run around real fast so nobody can catch me, use the boss for a screen, put in an extremely efficient 34 minutes. JJ is my role model. Read more

Albert, this thing only works in a vacuum, and this is gonna be all over the internet in roughly -30 minutes before the game ships. Read more

I once whipped my uncle’s ass at Tekken 3 in front of all of my cousins. Like a week later, his son starts acting up at school and at home. I don’t think it was a coincidence: his kids lost all respect for him. Read more

Then when the kid’s friends come over, someone will have to use the Dad Controller and it will be so sad. Read more

I knew a guy once. He lost his Lord of the Family status in a best-of-three NBA Jam TE series.

Now his son writes him in as a dependent on his taxes. Boomshakalaka. Read more

As both a human being and a Catholic I shared in the horror and heartbreak at the destruction caused by the fire, knowing great and long-standing works by people built to celebrate God and express their love for Him were being destroyed, and could never be replaced. Read more

To steal and paraphrase an oft-used line from a blog about home repair and historical restoration I like to read, it’s not good because it’s old, but it’s as old as it is, because it’s good.
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I’m not Catholic, and I only visited Notre Dame once, but my heart damn near broke yesterday as I watched the Cathedral burn. I can only be thankful that much of the stone outer structure survived. Read more

The Warriors gave up a 31-point lead? Read more

‘The Rockets have found some extremely exotic and bizarre ways to bomb out of the playoffs in recent years’ Read more

They’re also jarringly minor-seeming reasons to parachute out of what, up until last night anyway, sure as hell seemed like the most glamorous and desirable front-office job in all of American sports. Read more

I think there’s a ton of value in franchises just treating their best-ever players really well to keep them in the fold in case they have value later. If Magic helped deliver Lebron, then it was worth hiring him as president. Looks at Steve Yzerman and the Red Wings. They decided not to keep him in the fold, and… Read more