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Peanut Butter Is Your Salvation In a Jar“This advice can be fatal,” wrote Dr. Henry J. Heimlich to the New York Times in 1981, protesting their suggestion to pregame with peanut butter to curb overeating. “We have records of persons choking to death after eating peanut butter off a spoon. The problem is that the thick substance becomes lo...

<i>The Peanuts Movie </i>Is Faithful To Charles Schulz's Creation, But Still Gets It WrongBack in 1997, when L.A. Weekly critic Manohla Dargis gave a negative review to The Lost World, the hotly-anticipated sequel to Jurassic Park, she noted that not liking the movie was the equivalent of announcing that Christmas had been canceled to its fans. In kind, giving a thumbs-down to The Peanut...

Miami Marlins Owner's Insane Book About <em>Peanuts</em> Will Melt Your Brain

When we speak of spring and baseball, we speak of renewal. New shoots of grass, possibility, the warm rays in Florida. We rarely mention the game's antipodal force that dwells there too, a darkness that consumes joy—its unblinking saurian eyes unevolved for 37 million years, unregenerate in its pred...

Does <em>A Charlie Brown Christmas</em> Suck? A Very Deadspin Debate

It sucks, writes Drew Magary: "Why are we still subjecting kids to this awful shit?" | You're missing the point, writes Tom Scocca: "I love Christmas and Christmas is stressful as a motherfucker and A Charlie Brown Christmas is exactly right about the whole deal." ...

Deez Nuts

This is fun. Thanks to Mark Drew for making 'em and Ego Trip for pointing 'em out....

Wally Backman Says "Fuck" 35 Times In Postgame Speech That Lasts Less Than Two Minutes

When last we left minor league manager Wally Backman, he was swearing at umpires, swearing at his own team, and swearing at umpires some more. So, yeah, this latest clip of Wally working his motivational charms is decidedly NSFW....

Counterpoint: Charlie Brown Is Bigger Than Jesus

Gosh, somebody is taking a supposedly beloved holiday ritual and saying it's really awful and depressing. Who ever had that idea before? Oh, right: Charlies Schulz....