Zero, zero…

Today's bummer song Roky Erickson and 27 Devil's Joking - "You Don't Love Me Yet"

what the fuck does that mean

In a just world, the UFC fighters would look at the agent requirements the NFLPA uses and say to themselves, “we should follow that policy.” Two of the first three items would force many UFC managers to withdraw.

I’ve visited Berkeley Springs a bunch over the past few years, and this story has always lurked in the background. Looking forward to reading this.

Good stuff (as always) from @davidjroth.bsky.social

UFC, where racism and xenophobia is a plus for many fans and company brass...

Max Kellerman doing Zuffa boxing PR for a blood soaked paycheck...

Wait, this is real and people buy it? And it costs $600!

Today's bummer song: Bob Forrest - "Memphis"

Nuzzi's going to end up working for Weiss, isn't she?

Winning a FIFA peace prize… There’s a metaphor here, anyone?

Good lord, it’s worse than you can imagine, in every way…

More industries want Trump’s help hiring immigrant labor after farms get a break lailluminator.com/2025/12/03/r...

guys who are obsessed with the vikings love to tell you there would be no violence in an all white society

Will Cain is a whole bitch who got wrecked in sports and had to go shake ass for racists for money

A good one from Daniel Woodrell, who died earlier this week. You won't go wrong reading anything he wrote. "Twin Forks" www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Wait, she thought this was all going to go smoothly?!?!

On McCann's profile on Harvard's site, "… producing an intellectual property and antitrust law course at UFC in Las Vegas…” But sure, let him write about Dana White's anti-Ali act...

A few things: A lot of people seem to think highly of Mike Tyson, which, of course, is ridiculous. He's doing Dana White's bidding on this matter. Not a surprise. It's also not a surprise to see McCann doing PR work for Dana White and the anti-Ali act.

Paul Kelly is one of the most underrated songwriters...

when this guy got notified that he ripped my footage, cropped out my watermark, put his watermark on my footage, & used the language of my reporting for his text overlay, he figured just giving me caption credit would fix it. my issue is not with clout. it is with an intentional lack of integrity.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Sharing again because... 👀 This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.

Paddy Pimblett is, at best, an average fighter. He's been handed winnable fights by the UFC matchmakers because of marketability. To his credit, he's parlayed that to a (interim) title fight He's also a xenophobe and a bigot, which will make his inevitable downfall much sweeter

Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.

Yeah, this is not "cancellation," that's waiting for things to blow over... "When a cancelled performer reënters the culture..."

So many issues with this scene from a fiction story that an editor should have caught. “He was also a Greco-Roman wrestler but you wouldn’t know that by looking at him, only if you had the misfortune of being on the ground getting choked out by him in a leg lock.”

Not a fan of KAWS

Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together. They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean. But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.

If Stephen Miller put all of his thoughts into a book instead of just random tweets and FOX news appearances…

Access journalists value access more than journalism...

Oh man, he’s in real trouble, isn’t he?

To Explore Violence Against Women, She Drugs Herself Onstage

Bummer song of the day: Barbara Manning covering Richard and Linda Thompson - "End of the Rainbow"

Good read. Also, who is the “cool” Deadspin employee? “I can think of exactly one Deadspin employee in the site’s history who could accurately be categorized that way.”

Nothing MMA fighters love more than hanging with Kadyrov…

“A new generation of deaf writers reimagines language, text, and sound” via @thebaffler.com

I knew, the one last thing I must do before retirement, The Roxanne Wars of the 1980s

Man, at least use the library!

Fire everyone…

Who’s getting appointed to refile?

Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...

NJ high court rules shaken baby syndrome testimony unreliable and inadmissible in child abuse cases

It’s funny that the hot take criticism of Arman Tsarukyan is that he has money. Some folks just love to compete and win. It’s not that hard to figure out.

UFC fixing to get the next Greg Hardy on the roster in Gable Steveson and all the media simps are lining up to do their free UFC PR work…

Enjoyed “Train Dreams.” A beautiful and emotional movie that’s worth a watch. Two issues, trying to fit too much of the book in at points and the handling of the daughter. Great understated acting overall.

Okay, what kind of trouble did he get into this time...

they spent millions inventing the impossible burger, meanwhile if a restaurant has a "veggie burger" you know im getting that shit. oh your fake meat has beet juice so it looks like it bleeds? I want a burger that has like visible broccoli florets in it. kernels of yellow corn.

Has the MMA influencer world always been this grifty?