How Adam Silver, Gregg Popovich, and Steve Kerr Highlight NBA Hypocrisy Last year, Marc Lacey asked Adam Silver, "how does it feel to be the wokest professional sports league?" Silver responded simply, "...we're proud of that." It was a dumb, leading question at the time, and Silver's answer has aged like warm milk. The league [...]
Bill Belichick the GM is a Meritocratic Absolutist Former Second-Round pick of the New England Patriots, Duke Dawson, is no longer a New England Patriot. Bill Belichick the GM shipped him off to the Denver Broncos for a bag of peanuts. With yet another supposed "second-round bust," the delusional soldiers of the "Belichick Can't Draft" [...]
How the Dave Chappelle Sticks and Stones Special Kills the Critics Before the Chappelle Show skyrocketed him to the top tier of comedians, and just after the cult classic Half Baked made everybody yearn for a friend like Abba-Zaba, Dave Chappelle was Killin' Them Softly. The uproariously funny set featured completely inappropriate jokes: an imitation of [...]
Jewish Gun Rights Are More Important Than Ever America and the Second Amendment were made for Jewish people. Jewish history is replete with examples of Jews dying at the hands of their fellow citizens and in governmental, systematic attempts to wipe them out. It is for this reason Jewish gun rights should be celebrated. Instead, [...]
How More Information Leads to the Death of Research There is simply too much information. It is all available in the pocket of our hands. Just a couple of strokes on the keyboard or a few taps on the phone and, boom, you have the answer to any question on your mind. But this comes [...]
True Competitors, True Athletes Know Athletic Competition Erases all Prejudice Every so often I wade into the online battlefield of Twitter and find myself under fire against charges of racism, sexism, and transphobia. I think Colin Kaepernick was a middling quarterback and is either a woefully ignorant person or a devious hack who holds hypocritical [...]
Jonathan Lucroy Commits the Gravest of Catcher Sins so Jake Marisnick Gets Suspended Baseball is slowly shedding the fundamentals that made it such a fun game to watch for more than a century. First, it was the erosion of the sacrifice bunt. Second, came the sudden disappearance of its cousin, the sacrifice fly. Now we [...]
Colin Kaepernick Shows His True Colors; They Are Not Red, White and Blue It. Was. Never. About. Police. Brutality. When Colin Kaepernick took a knee to supposedly protest against police brutality, the timing seemed weird. He stood as a starter, he kneeled as a backup. Those doubting his sincerity--but wanting to believe maybe the timing [...]
When Police Do Not Do Their Job, There is No Law and Order The vast majority of police nationwide are legitimate heroes. You do not hear about the thousands of stories every day of police simply doing their jobs and making their communities better by making their communities safer. That is their main goal; to [...]
Democratic Hopefuls Speaking Spanish; Why Democrats Learned Nothing From 2016 No, the United States still does not technically have an official language. Yes, English is the de facto official language and you must--with rare exceptions--take the U.S. citizen's test in English. However, if you came away from the First Round of the Democratic Presidential Debate a [...]
