“Baseball’s plan to kill off dozens of [minor league] affiliate teams is a clear act of collusion.”
“Among millennials, fewer than half identify as Christians. More than 40 percent identify as nothing in particular.”
“Netflix Reportedly Lost 1 Million Subscribers to Disney+”.
“This is an extreme case of what, actually, is a pretty normal habit, though it sounds kind of strange when written down: People regularly speak as their pets, babies, or even, yes, stuffed animals, in order to communicate with people around them.”
Very glad to see Charlie Pierce on the road to recovery.
“Democrats, for the most part, are engaging with the factual record; Republicans, for the most part, are not. These positions are manifestly not equivalent. Treating them as such does not serve any useful concept of fairness; instead, it rebounds clearly to the advantage of the one side (Republicans) for whom nonsense being taken seriously is a victory in itself.”
“White evangelicals were mostly partisan Republicans in 1980, but because we were Cold Warriors, not culture warriors.”
“4 false claims in under 30 words: Kevin McCarthy’s IG report tweet is an exercise in gaslighting”.
Donald Trump’s one-line cameo in Home Alone 2 was edited out of a Canadian TV broadcast, and people reacted exactly as you’d expect them to.
RIP, Allee Willis, songwriter who composed the theme to Friends.
“It’s been clear for a while that political satire in the U.S. has a Trump problem. The jokes are getting redundant, but even worse, the president seems immune to them.”
RIP, Gertrude Barnstone, Houston artist and civil rights activist.
RIP, Daddy-O Wade, Texas artist who created the iconic San Antonio North Star Mall cowboy boots.
RIP, Don Imus, pioneering radio shock jock.
RIP, Lee Mendelson, TV producer who created A Charlie Brown Christmas and the other Peanuts specials.
“So we can be filled with hope by realizing that we have the capacity to be good and kind and decent. And we can be filled with dismay by realizing that we’re only able or willing to be that way in short bursts.”