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DNC Apologizes For Illegally Dumping A Bunch Of Poop Down A Storm Drain
A DNC bus was apparently so full of shit this morning that it pulled over in Lawrenceville, Ga. and illegally dumped a bunch of it down a storm drain. Witnesses complained of a “foul smell” and witnessed the bus dumping raw sewage on the Grayson Highway this morning between campaign stops. It was ba...
Everyone Got Called A Liar In Closing Arguments At The Derrick Rose Trial<em></em>
Lawyers for both sides in the Derrick Rose trial made their closing arguments today and the proceeding ended the way it began—with both sides telling vastly different stories about what happened in the early hours inside Jane Doe’s Los Angeles apartment back in 2013. ...
Hawks Coach Mike Budenholzer Got Taken Out By Langston Galloway
The NBA preseason is too long and isn’t good for much besides cursory evaluations of new players (like Joel Embiid) and injuries. Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer fell victim to a wayward Langston Galoway attempt to save the ball in the second quarter this evening, and he went down hard....
Titans Owner Denies That Team Will Be Sold To Jon Bon Jovi "Or Anyone Else"
Jon Bon Jovi wants to buy an NFL team. He tried to buy the Bills earlier this year, and “continues to monitor the Titans’ ownership situation closely,” according to CBS’s Jason La Canfora....
Deadspin Up All Night: Chill A Little
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It Was A Nice Day In New York Today
Earlier today, local news station NY1 stumbled upon a “mysterious” statue of a mostly naked Hillary Clinton “depicted with horse hooves, and standing on what appeared to be printouts of emails. The statue also featured a Wall Street banker pressed against her left breast.” So of course, some shit we...
Derrick Rose's Accuser Questioned About Text Messages On Final Day Of Testimony
The Derrick Rose civil trial, in its last hours of testimony, was all about text messages on Tuesday. It began with Jane Doe answering questions about text messages her attorneys failed to submit to the defense earlier in the trial, continued with lawyers fighting over even more text messages, and e...
Everyone Terrified
When people who manage lots of money are feeling confident, they invest that money. When they feel scared, uncertain, and pessimistic, they just hold onto cash, waiting fearfully for disaster to strike. How are they feeling now? ...
Curt Schilling, For What Feels Like The Hundredth Time, Says He's Going To Run For Senate
Curt Schilling, the elite meme curator and former MLB pitcher made famous by refusing to recognize when he didn’t have a leg to stand on, said that he is considering a run for the United States Senate in 2018. This is not a new claim from him....
Remember When Donald Trump Called Condoleezza Rice A Bitch?
No one respects women more than noted pussy-grabber Donald Trump. This, according to Trump, is indisputable. Which is why it may shock you to learn that, back in 2006, in a speech made to thousands, Donald Trump called former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “a bitch.”...
Nicolas Batum Totally Blows Easy Buzzer-Beater
Before we get too far into this blog, a caveat: It’s the preseason, so this failed buzzer-beater means exactly dick. That said, it was very funny....
May Your Own Retirement Be So Peaceful
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Get A Load Of These Outlandish <i>Westworld</i> Fan Theories
HBO’s Westworld is draped with the trappings of the horror, action adventure, and Western genres, but it’s best understood as a mystery. The show doesn’t exactly have a coherent, unified plot so much as a tableau of vignettes and characters whose interconnectedness is only vaguely clear. The more th...
Deadspin Up All Night: 'Round Midnight
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Please Stay The Fuck Out Of This, Canada
As much of a nightmare as this election season has been, we were at least able to take solace in the fact that we, as a nation, could sink no lower. But even that’s no longer true. Because now, Canada thinks they’re better than us. These are truly our darkest days....
John McCain Promises To Defy The Election Results
While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is going off on paranoid rants about how the media and inner-city voters are trying to steal the election from him, his on-and-off supporter Senator John McCain has already moved on to the larger picture. Today, he pledged to ignore the result of th...
Movie Stars Who Play Badasses Who Might Actually Be Badasses, Ranked
Lots of actors get paid “big money” to play badasses in Hollywood movies. How many of these actors are actually badasses in real life? ...
WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Aides Cowering In Fear Of Seeming To Care About The Poor
Here is a remarkable bit from the recently WikiLeaked emails of John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. If it doesn’t quite reveal some nefarious master plan for technoligarch world domination, it at least provides an opportunity to goggle at some extremely dumb campaign s...
Why Are Workers At Our Richest Universities Going Hungry?
This month, Harvard University received a $10 million donation earmarked to study residents in poor neighborhoods in Boston. The same week, Harvard’s dining workers had to go on strike in search of a living wage. ...