• I Just Finished Little Fires Everywhere Last Night and Now I Have Answers to My Questions!

    I Just Finished Little Fires Everywhere Last Night and Now I Have Answers to My Questions!

    (Unlike yesterday, spoilers like a motherfucker in here) 1. Who set the fire??? White people. Which makes “We Didn’t Start The Fire” both cruel irony and elaborate subterfuge. 2. Does anyone else say “Here comes a little fire” to themselves whenever there’s a confrontation? I think that’s just me. 3. No? Yeah. 4. A first…

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  • I'm Halfway Through Little Fires Everywhere and I Have so Many Questions!

    I'm Halfway Through Little Fires Everywhere and I Have so Many Questions!

    *I will try very, very hard to avoid them, but there will be light spoilers here.* 1. Who set the fire??? 2. Does anyone else say “Here comes a little fire” to themselves whenever there’s a confrontation? 3. No? 4. A first date to a junkyard van? Really? Who does that? Are junkyard vans the…

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  • How Old Were You When You First Realized That White Supremacy Is a Death Cult?

    I was 37. I wish I could say this realization came sooner. That’s an embarrassingly late age. But I also used to think The Weeknd was a group, so I’m a slow learner sometimes.

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  • Why Insecure Is the Best Show on TV Right Now

    Why Insecure Is the Best Show on TV Right Now

    I feel alien sometimes when considering the demand for representation that many of us make when assessing and critiquing television shows. Mainly because I just don’t give a damn if I’m reflected. I’m speaking strictly as a consumer, though. The value of us existing in every aspect of the production ecosystem is unquestionable. I just…

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  • Popular Pittsburgh Nightclub Owners Protest Stay-at-Home Order, Outed as…Just Really Stupid White People

    An understandable but deeply misguided take on the armed (and mostly white) idiots in the streets protesting stay-at-home orders is that they’ll just spread the coronavirus to each other, like a regifted MAGA fruitcake. Unfortunately, all that does is make everyone else more vulnerable, too. But, there is actually a form of social Darwinism happening here,…

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  • The Problem With Michael Jordan Mythology Porn

    Michael Jordan’s 63 against the Boston Celtics in 1986 was the first time I saw him play a full game live. Except it wasn’t. I actually watched a VHS recording of that game, because it came on while we were out of the house, and my dad taped it. But that detail gets obscured in…

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  • Teddy Riley's Uncleisure, Explained

    You’re really sticking to this gimmick now, huh? So yesterday for dinner I made a bunch of lamb chops, and they were really good. For breakfast this morning, I had lamb and eggs. Lunch will be lamb and salad. Dinner? Lamb, spinach, and mashed potatoes. My point? Once I find something that’s working, I stick…

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  • The 10 Best Things About NASCAR Star Kyle Larson Saying the Word That Starts With 'N' and Rhymes With 'Bigger'

    Even during the dark days of the pandemic, when a handshake will kill you and a Kushner will drink your blood, the sun occasionally shines on us, and it’s our duty to bathe in its luminance. Such a time happened on Sunday when, during an iRacing event, NASCAR star Kyle Larson lost communication with the…

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  • Triflin' Negroes Like Jerome Adams, Explained

    So I guess you’re back with the explainer thing for good, huh? I wouldn’t say that. I didn’t watch The Color Purple until 2011, so you know I don’t like to commit to things. That makes no sense. Neither does RZA calling himself Bobby Digital but doing his IG Live battle through a Sony Pressman.…

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  • Wendy Bell, America's Worst White Woman, Is Back (and Wants to Kill Your Grandparents)

    I imagine that, if you’ve never heard of Wendy Bell, you find her anointment as America’s Worst White Woman to be suspicious. “Who is this mystery woman,” I picture you asking, “who somehow beat Ann Coulter, Abigail Fisher, and Toejam Lobotomy to be America’s worst white woman? How is she the LeBron of Karens?” Well,…

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