Not going to lie to you
Joe Johnson had this great line on Nightcap: You know I ain't going to lie to you just 'cuz it sound fly to you.
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Alienation as a negotiation tactic
Why the Brock Purdy Contract Stinks: And these are the 49ers, for heaven’s sake: the franchise that never met a big-name veteran that it couldn’t alienate with its intermittent-fasting approach to...
Romance
They found my side hustle!
Religious clapback
From Tumblr: One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with...
Judases and Brutuses
Charming trade scenario
Quentin Grimes Is The Tragicomic Protagonist Of The Terminal NBA Season: ... I am charmed by a trade that could turn out to have hurt both teams while helping a player's career in the process.
Putting it delicately
Kenny Williams implied how deeply he dislikes Tony LaRussa in the best way. An owner who ‘thinks he knows everything’ led the White Sox to historic disaster: Asked about La Russa’s nearly two seasons...
Gambling crazed CJ Abrams
Nationals End Season By Demoting Leadoff Hitter Who Was In A Casino Until 8:00 A.M.: Poverty, they say, affords moral clarity. Nasim Nuñez, with all due respect, is not taking the Nationals anywhere...
Everyone's private struggle
Jaguars Junction: Bye Week: As we look ahead, let us all resolve to treat one another with a greater degree of understanding. Each of us is engaged in his own private struggle. None of us are mere...
Sneering tone
You Can Probably Eat More Yogurt Than You Think: My writing tends to tackle important policy issues with an analytical fearlessness that some have described as “unbearable” or “possessing the...
Being properly appreciated
Jaguars Junction: Week 15: I chose not to attend the game after all, for the same reason that a professional “storm chaser” might not volunteer to plow headlong into a deadly twister: Because...
Justice in this world
I love Hamilton Nolan's writing. Jaguars Junction: Week 17: As mankind evolves past a belief in an omnipotent god, we must inevitably face the question: Whence does justice arise? For if there is no...
Lions and hunters
Shannon Sharpe said the following on the Wednesday episode of Nightcap: Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Butthair
Stats analogy
This quote hits too close to home: Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.
Who are you?
Jaguars Junction: Week 1 After all, who are you to question me? "Who am I?" you reply. "I am mother. I am father. I am sister. I am brother. I am woman. I am man. I am human. I am friend. I am lover....
Drew Magary great lines
Drew Magary is one of my favorite writers. He has great lines all the time. Here are my favs: It’s Decided. I’m Moving To Arica, Chile.: ... if my kids were still three wanted to play peek-a-boo, I...
Vodka Papa John's shot
Batman
Jon Bois' 2014 NFL Draft writeups
I love Jon Bois' writing:
Roger Ebert's searing critiques
Roger Ebert was always at his best when he didn't like a movie, like 1980's Spit on Your Grave: I wanted to turn to the man near me and tell him his remarks were disgusting, but I did not. To hold...
Lies
Men lie, women lie, buckets don’t.- Dion Waiters
Reconcile with the MAGAs
Joe Biden Is Right: For America to Heal, We Must Find Common Ground With Trump Supporters: TO STEAL ALL THE REMOTE CONTROLS AND SHOELACES FROM THEIR HOMES TO GRAB THEIR HANDS WHILE THEY’RE SLEEP AND...
Adapting to any situation
This quote by Andy Warhol has always resonated with me as a way to explain my youth: When a situation develops gradually, no matter how weird that situation is, you get used to it.
I live in a world of ghosts
From the movie, the Seventh Seal: “My indifference has shut me out. I live in a world of ghosts, a prisoner of dreams. I want God to put out his hand, show his face, speak to me. I cry out to him in...
I hated, hated, hated this movie
These are some great-lines from Roger Ebert's book, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie: In which we determine how werewolves are made, how they are killed, and how they spread their wolfiness. Here is...
I don't try to be different
From El-P, now of Run the Jewels, then of Company Flow: I don't try to be different, I am... This quote has always spoken to me.
Maybe it's you
From the TV show Justified, the great Raylan Givens: You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.
Wisdom from Killa Cam
Cam'ron dropped this jewel in "Losing Weight": Can’t get paid in a earth this big? You worthless kid!
Sentient braided leather belt
KC Vs. St. Louis
Snickers the cat
My pal Steve posted this to Facebook: I've been helping out at Bonner Animal Rescue recently, and I’m slowly getting to know its denizens on a level that is only achieved when you've thrown off all...
Puppet Master
My favorite XKCD line ever: