The moral is to either to never say anything that might offend someone because it might turn out to have consequences for you or to say what you think in the knowledge that things will probably work out one way or the other if you do. Read more

Editor’s notes: Read more

The question of whether this is or isn’t a dong has torn the Deadspin community apart. Here’s a chat I had today with editor emeritus Tommy Craggs: Read more

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of… Read more

“At a time in which the one side, armed with all the fighting power that springs from a systematic conception of ‘justice’—even though it be criminal in a thousand ways—makes an attack against the established order, the other side will be able to resist when it draws its strength from a new faith, which in our case is… Read more

I mean, a) the point is that we are impossibly childish and petty and b) as an editor, if I get “It is of the utmost importance to insist again and again that idealism is not merely a superfluous manifestation of sentiment but rather something which has been, is and always will be, a necessary precondition of human… Read more

Email me at marchman at deadspin dot com and I can give you info on our BOFA program, which you can use to avoid both ads and the need to self-righteously upbraid people who have nothing to do with ads. Read more

There’s a warning in the headline! Read more

I had nothing to do with this Read more

Dishwasher and door to door salesman are probably tied. Read more

Bridgeport! Read more

Yeah, Billy’s working on it now. Read more

We’re eyeing some possible format changes. Firebolt the Dog will always be involved in anything I do. Read more

Daffy Duck and Tweety Bird Read more

“Kill The Poor.” Read more

No, it’ll be back in the fall and much improved. Read more

What the fuck are you even talking about? Read more

Late ‘70s/early ‘80s Rough Trade. Read more

There’s a level on which my favorite part of this is the official press release containing the sentence “We are not screwing around, Philly.” Read more