i'm in it for the men who are just angry that someone could be so good at something, the one's giving themselves ulcers as part of an embarrassing, belated reckoning with the basic unfairness of life. these people fascinate me and their fevered comments on the athletic dot com bring me peace.
a good chunk of the ohtani hater guys are, of course, just garden variety racists. loathsome little mole rats, their petulant fury beneath examining. there's that. but it's not the whole story.
i don't mean dodger haters. that is a separate category and the emotional motivations of the individuals within it are easily understood. i was a child red sox fan in the 90s; i know what it is to hate a team for being incredibly rich and therefore stupidly good. that makes sense.
there are men, you know, a lot of them, who spend each day mad about shohei ohtani. remarkable stuff, these pitiful creatures gnashing their teeth over that which they cannot allow themselves to enjoy. they're not why you can't open the windows at american hotels but this feature does protect them.
fuck ICE forever
been too long since such an obvious Dudes Rock has crossed my path
"LA's public bathroom program, launched in 2022, has only built 14 free-standing toilets. They are all currently closed."
This essay is busting so many of the rape myths around the Epstein files discourse. Things like, "Is child sexual abuse worse because the victims are younger?" and "But is fondling THAT bad?"
All sexual abuse is traumatic. All of it is wrong. All of it should be disqualifying from political power.
There are a scant handful of people in the world who get paid for professional arts criticism anymore. It's a rare privilege for a lucky few, and to outsource that privilege to the plagiarism machine is a sin.
To give a sense of the enormity of the moment: the airplane nerd who became a resistance hero by taking photos at the airport got a prime speaking slot between Bruce Springsteen and Bernie Sanders and punctuated his speech in front of an impossibly large crowd with a remarkably subdued "fuck ICE."
so what gender is it if you play counting crows whenever your girlfriend leaves the apartment
This framing is appalling and, importantly, just fucking wrong
- "just $1" is $1 too much, because the charges are illegitimate
- it is not illegal in Georgia to induce one's own abortion, so I don't know what "illegal abortion" the AP (or the prosecutors) are talking about here
I’m begging a mainstream publication to pick this story up? A million people ride buses and trains in LA every day and right now they really have no idea when those buses or trains are coming!
Royer Perez-Jimenez, a teenager stopped for a traffic violation in Florida, is at least the 49th person who has died in detention since Trump took office for his second term in January 2025.
send support to all the annoying guys in your life... we are hurting today
i am not joking when i saw that this is the heart of what woke 2 is all about
in that costco size box of breathe right strips to share type of love
An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet
GENOOOOOOO
ahhahahahahahhaahi love baseball
the world baseball classic rules like i'm watching a game in which neither team includes even one white american man with a wet lob and raw milk induced ibs
megan sent me outside to look for a package seconds before my newest boy did this btw
the world baseball classic really is a beautiful event i love feeling the warmth and camaraderie that comes from uniting around Mexico Wins While Scoring Four Runs or Fewer
ryan atwood "you know what I like about rich kids?" punch. "nothing!" really is one of the most enduring cultural achievements of our time
World's worst politician brags about predicting things her opponent said he would do and which she failed to meaningfully campaign against.
Hell yeah, brother
I wish I could link to the years' worth of pictures/information about MacPark meals I posted on the old site, but Eva has done so much good for so many people. She's why I know how long it takes to make 48+ quarts of pasta salad, fried rice, pulled pork, & more. She gets shit done. Help if you can!
sick as hell!!!
evil abounds but ! one can still fire up poetry foundation dot org at any time and have a warming little meltdown
zero (0) days since our last "having a coke with you" induced sudden sobbing incident