The prosecution of former Stanford University student athlete Brock Turner was mentioned in the comments to several threads yesterday. Mention of it shouldn’t be buried in comments to other threads, it needs to be on every front page of every site that is willing to post it. Turner received a bizarrely short sentence after being convicted …
Speaking of Keystone
The second oil spill on the Yellowstone River in four years has poisoned the Glendive, Montana water supply: The 12-inch-diameter Poplar Pipeline spilled on Saturday morning. By Monday night, Glendive residents cleaned local grocery store shelves of bottled water as news spread that health officials had found benzene levels in the municipal water treatment plant …
Brace Your Freude To Be Thoroughly Schadened
This is just too awesome for words: The U.S. government wants conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza to be sentenced to as much as 16 months in prison, following his guilty plea to a campaign finance law violation. In a Wednesday court filing, federal prosecutors rejected defense arguments that D’Souza was “ashamed and contrite” about …
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Open Thread: Pure Sports Jeenius!
Okay, I’m easily amused. SB Nation‘s “PFT Commentor” has “a modest proposal for NFL locker rooms”: As if the NFL wasnt dealing with enough headaches now that they will have the first Gay player in the history of the league joining a team in training camp probably, its time to address some of the details …
More Talk About Michael Sam
Courtesy commentor Belafon, who got it from LGF. How often do you hear a TV person quoting Audre Lord — approvingly? Earlier today, commentor Comrade Jake linked to a great profile in the NYTimes: … He was one of the best players to come out of tiny Hitchcock, Tex., where his family was well known …
Mid Afternoon Open Thread
First, let me say “Thank You!” to all of you who wished me a happy birthday last night. That was touching. Even from mclaren, you silly little person, you! The Olympics have already started, and among the tweets from western reporters about terrible hotels, poisonous water, and open man-holes and so on, we’ve learned that …
Fair Warning
I fucking give up. If you want to be offended by everything I write and police my language, please fuck off and go somewhere else. I try to be as minimally offensive as possible, but you know what, you motherfuckers keep shifting the rules. I’m to the point that I have no idea what is …