One of those swiss cheese mistakes. Every level of the process has holes, but when you stack them on top of each other, nothing should have a chance to get all the way through, because the cheese should all overlap. In this case, a rare instance, the holes all lined up. Can’t really blame the reporter here — just like… Read more
The internet is a reliable source of nothing so much as simultaneous self-aggrandizement and humiliation, and the…
Earlier today, Bowling Green State University fired head basketball coach Chris Jans because of an incident that…
This is a GREAT blind item, holy shit Read more
My all-time, worst, most rotten client I've ever had is a currently sitting Republican Congress woman. She had not yet been elected at the time and I worked on one of her campaign videos. It left me fully disenchanted with the world of politics in general (and I was already a skeptic).
She was so nasty, fake, and… Read more
we should probably get around to admitting that this whole "let's all know what everybody thinks about everything absolutely all the time forever" experiment has gone very very badly Read more
Jonathan Chait's new feature for New York Magazine is called "Trigger Warning," and it's got a big old floppy dek:
I clicked on a link promising photos of the new Gerber baby with my eye roll already beginning its exaggerated arc…
The Florida authorities called the Dozier School for Boys a reformatory, a home for orphans or wayward boys who…
I've had the privilege of sitting next to Craggs for five years now (and working alongside him at ESPN The Mag for a…
There are way more of these posts than I'd expected. Read more
Some of these things are lies. Read more
You could tell Craggs thought he was the best writer at Deadspin because he never wrote, and when he did write, it…
You can't blame him for that. He was completely nuts that day. Read more
One time, Tommy cut open his scrotum when shaving it. And then he told everyone. Read more