It’s genuinely unbelievable how much the average right winger’s conception of history is based on post-war American advertising of the mid 20th century

I love how the Times keeps going back to the same callous, racist down-home folks to seek their sanction for this administration’s cruelty and incompetence. This week: what do you think of the boat strikes? I knew I’d seen this Charles Vaughters — Marine vet, college student — before.

I asked ESPN Research and they asked Elias Sports Bureau and they looked back as far as they could (to 1978) and it would appear Jalen Hurts is the first player to ever commit two turnovers in one play. Isn't history beautiful?

Sometimes the universe aligns perfectly.

Yeah I don’t think the thirty three drinks are the story here, even if that is an eye-watering number

1 in 16. You probably know sixteen people who have had kids

My wife has a number of food allergies and we were advised to formula feed (which also helped our son’s terrible acid reflux). He’s a thriving 18yo with no food allergies. RFK Jr and these clowns are like a quarter step from advising we bleed humors.

The anti-MAHA messaging really needs to play this up. Do you realize the infant mortality rate in the US less than 100 years ago was over 60 per 1000 births and now it's down to 5.47 per 1000.

I've been thinking about this on and off for a few hours, and it is such a perfect encapsulation of why the right wing is Like That these days. Kim and I have house parties all the time. They're great. If you're not getting invited to house parties, that is very much a "you" issue.

You can't tell me I am legally forbidden from doing this job! I quit!

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Because nothing is really new... coming out of the Spanish Flu pandemic we had a period of decreased inhibitions around social vices, aggressive moves by the business and finance class and such in the 1920s. (Do not look up what happened afterwards, I'm sure it all went great.)

Bush v. Gore is already the most important Court ruling of the 20th Century and now we're just gonna apply it broadly to anything the Right doesn't like

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

A great sliding doors moment for all of us is: What if Fred encouraged his son's affinity for the theater? Trump chasing an EGOT rather than a Nobel Peace Prize...

I think Mattingly’s best (only) chance to get in is to take another manager’s job and win. Build a hybrid case like Joe Torre (in) and Dusty Baker/Davey Johnson (should be in).

Only Kent is weird, but my recollection is second base is historically underrepresented in the Hall so… fine.

Sunday chicken.

Good, part of fucking around is the inevitable finding out, tell em to choke

Alabama has two losses since the last time Notre Dame didn’t win by three scores (also the worst loss of anyone under playoff consideration).

The weekly rankings releases really are such a sham. I don't have that strong a take on Miami over Notre Dame but letting Bama get off scot-free for that disgrace yesterday is bordering on unbelievable

Between the World Cup draw and the CFP selection show it is a banner weekend for people screaming at the TV “JUST ANNOUNCE THE GODDAMN TEAMS!”

I’ve only saved two non-family member voicemails and one was Steve Spurrier linked here and the other was the late Sen. Tom Coburn telling me I was destroying America with my reporting.

“Fun” Fact: The NHL Department of Player Safety hasn’t held a hearing or issued a suspension since opening night (Jo Drouin got a game for cross checking).

Obvious result is obvious.

The Kaat case changes a bit if you give him a Cy Young and a couple top three finishes, which he would’ve had if MLB awarded one to each league instead of just one total. He’s also got the Hockey Hall of Fame “builder” case the same way Rizzuto had: combine his on-field and broadcast work.

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

Move to an 18-team bracket (10 autobids and eight at-large). Your two lowest ranked at-large teams play your two lowest ranked autobid teams on Army-Navy Saturday and hand out the Heisman at halftime of the second game.

Miami fired Manny Diaz to make room for Mario Christobal and Diaz won an ACC Title before Christobal

Indiana was the worst team in college football for 150 years and then they let you start paying players and they immediately became No. 1 and the only conclusion one can draw is they were the only ones who didn’t realize you could pay players under the table for the first 150 years.

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

The thing about conspiracy theories is they’re like potato chips - you can’t have just one.

Great trade! Who’d we give up? Who’d we get?

This gives Miami a transitive win over the National Champion, which is more valuable really when you think about it.

The world's wealthy liberal democracies looked the other way on FIFA's corruption for years because they didn't think corruption in sports was a big deal or worth addressing, and now find themselves looking at FIFA as a powerful, increasingly-integrated part of the far-right anti-democracy movement.

I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.

You’ll never* guess which Duck got him! *You know exactly who it was.

“I watched Taylor Lorenz’s piece….”

My man is letting a chiropractor fuck with his blood. www.redriverhealthandwellness.com/doctors/dr-j...

underlying problem with a lot of pop culture and society generally is that people stopped believing that duty is a real thing

It’s clear from the video this woman had just come to the park to play with her child. She said as much and was upset that there were masked men with guns in the park. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino calls the woman an “activist” and Andy Ngo says the woman was using her child as a “human shield.”

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

Sometimes, even these days, the news is good!

Looking forward to Face the Nation with Olivia Nuzzi, Sundays on CBS

On the very long list of things the next Democratic administration should do as part of a sweeping anti-corruption agenda, taking a goddamn sledgehammer to FIFA (and the IOC) isn’t Number One, but it’d be incredibly popular.

A "FIFA peace prize" is definitely the sort of honor that guy is worthy of, we can say that much