WHEN I KNEW I WAS FINISHED

The story you are about to witness is true. The names have not actually been changed because they are not actually names of the persons involved and no names are actually named. Our story begins with the Gawker kerfluffle. There was plenty of stupid to go around in that clusterfuck, and UPROXX posted

Point of Parliamentary Procedure

Now that our little rebellious community of forsaken kommenters has grown exponentially, (pours one out for Black Friday)(ruins sneakers), we should probably set some ground rules.  And since unlike 2% of you I'm an attorney, I figured I'd get us started. Back when things started to jump around here we had

A Selection Of Phrases From Recent Posts That Would Make Good Titles For MFA Student Poems

Until They Are Blackened And Seared Before The Last Root Gives Way Our Collective Dark Secret The Freedom Of Murderers Sometimes A Girl Our Abject Depravity Crawling Out Of A Bottle A Short Pier In Jacksonville Through The Rubble, Through The Ash Naked And Bruised Of The Men Who Execute A Long, Long Way Down Necklace Of Ears The Third Term A Texas Conversation Opinions

While You Were Drinking

While the majority of folks here have been nursing weekend long hangovers due to #07/31 the world kept going and the NFL kept moving. So here is a little primer to catch up everyone who is crawling out of a bottle on what has happened. Ravens: While you were drinking the Ravens

America’s Wang’s Team (well, one of them) Dolphins 2015

Welcome to the life of a Dolphin fan. Not a dolfan. Keep your face paint to yourself, I just want to drink beer and scream at the TV. In real life I teach history, so my fallback is the old-man-on-a-bus-bench-with-an-onion-tied-to-his-belt-because-it-was-the-style-at-the-time narrative form. To those of you seeking insightful, quantitative analysis

WHEN I KNEW I WAS FINISHED

The story you are about to witness is true. The names have not actually been changed because they are not actually names of the persons involved and no names are actually named. Our story begins with the Gawker kerfluffle. There was plenty of stupid to go around in that clusterfuck, and UPROXX posted

Elisha And THE BEN

Scene: The Rooney-Mara Doin’ It The Right Way Secret Mountain Hideaway Fortress (Actual location–Lake George) Elisha: Did you see me in those new DirecTV commercials? I think they’re pretty neat! THE BEN: THE BEN THINK SO ALSO TOO. Elisha: It’s the Citizen watch of satellite television providers! THE BEN: THE BEN HAVE DISH NETWORK. Elisha: