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The A.V. Club Deadspin Gizmodo Jalopnik Jezebel Kotaku Lifehacker The Root The Takeout The Onion The Inventory Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise Shop Subscribe Latest NBA MLB NFL NHL Soccer Global Pandemic Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise Latest NBA MLB NFL NHL Soccer Global Pandemic Advertisement Nov 1 28 11/1/19 A Bear Friday For The Road Diana Moskovitz 410 28 I won’t lie, I felt daunted by this blog. I was never a very funny blogger. I never wrote Bear Friday before. I am not Tom Ley! But, it turns out, the secret to bear blogging is getting out of the way and letting the bears work their magic. Oct 29 117 Life's Rich Pageant 10/29/19 Life's Rich Pageant 10/29/19 Life's Rich Pageant Three Good Dogs I Met Tom Ley 895 117 I spent the last three months living in Mexico City. While I was there, I met three good dogs. Oct 29 48 Life's Rich Pageant 10/29/19 Life's Rich Pageant 10/29/19 Life's Rich Pageant Check Out The Wheels On This Pumpkin Thief Dan McQuade 277 48 Yesterday, D.C. writer Topher Mathews posted about the pumpkin on his doorstep. Specifically, he posted about how someone had stolen his pumpkin. It happens all the time! However, I have to say that I am pretty sure most pumpkin thefts are not this funny. Oct 24 9 Music 10/24/19 Music 10/24/19 Music Classic Rock, Ranked Lauren Theisen 1.2K 9 Kelsey said she saw the film Yesterday on a plane. I said I didn’t understand why “Eleanor Rigby” was such a popular Beatles song. This being Deadspin, we have, after hours of yelling at each other in Slack, reached the natural endpoint of this, which is a democratically produced staff ranking of classic rock radio … Advertisement Oct 23 2 Life's Rich Pageant 10/23/19 Life's Rich Pageant 10/23/19 Life's Rich Pageant An Interview With The Viral Chinese Stunt Drinker Who Became Our King Lauren Teixeira 78 2 One day late last month, Liu Shichao, a 33-year-old farmer in China’s northern Hebei province, awoke to a flood of messages that he had become famous on a foreign social networking platform called Twitter. Liu had never heard of this app; social media giants like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have been blocked in … Oct 18 6 Politics 10/18/19 Politics 10/18/19 Politics Chicago's Strike Is For The Children Hamilton Nolan 141 6 CHICAGO, Ill. — By Monday, you could tell it was coming. It had been building for months, of course, but by 2:00 Monday afternoon, at the big rally downtown at the Chicago Temple, you could see that the momentum had grown into a force that was ready to explode, like a race horse inside a starting gate. The people were … Oct 11 4 10/11/19 Crumbs At The Bottom Of The Cereal Bag, Ranked Drew Magary 197 4 (NOTE: Only ranked by how these perform in a bowl with milk. If you wanna use them as an ingredient in some nouveau dessert brittle , that’s a different list.) Oct 9 4 Life's Rich Pageant 10/9/19 Life's Rich Pageant 10/9/19 Life's Rich Pageant It's Okay To Log Off Albert Burneko 182 4 So, here’s a tweet. Advertisement Oct 4 8 Life's Rich Pageant 10/4/19 Life's Rich Pageant 10/4/19 Life's Rich Pageant You're Not Going To Remember Any Of This Shit: Joker, Reviewed Felix Biederman 324 8 “The feeling that the future does not exist, that it is only more of the same, means all utopias are meaningless. Literature has always been relegated to utopia, so when utopia loses meaning, so does literature.” Sep 27 30 Politics 9/27/19 Politics 9/27/19 Politics This Guy Truly Has No Idea What He's Talking About David Roth 444 30 It is a problem for President Donald Trump that it’s often impossible to tell what the hell he’s talking about. This is not one of those signature Trump defects that can readily be spun into a secret strength or as a subtle bit of advanced dealcraft that only experts and initiates can appreciate. His mind is a … Sep 26 1 9/26/19 Heights, Ranked Lauren Theisen 410 1 ( Disclosure: I am 5'10". ) Sep 26 1 The Great Outdoors 9/26/19 The Great Outdoors 9/26/19 The Great Outdoors All I Want To Do Is Create Havoc As A Terrible Goose Kelsey McKinney 52 1 Before last week, I had dabbled in video games the way a vegan dabbles at a barbecue: finding a single cucumber here or a slice of grilled eggplant there that I might enjoy, but always leaving unsatisfied and hungry. I played Mario Kart as a child, and Dance Dance Revolution as a preteen. In high school, I played the S … Advertisement Sep 25 8 9/25/19 Stop Calling It "Gaslighting" Lauren Theisen 154 8 “Lie” is a great word. It’s a short, to-the-point noun with a universally agreed upon meaning that we all learn before we even enter kindergarten. Call someone a liar, and any English-speaker in the world will require no clarification—they’ll know that someone isn’t telling the truth. Sep 25 Save Movies 9/25/19 Movies 9/25/19 Movies You'll Love Ad Astra If You Just Want To Spend Two Hours In Space With A Sad Guy Patrick Redford 121 Save Ad Astra is a movie principally concerned with two questions: How do you cope with and overcome the psychological trauma of turning into your taciturn, emotionally remote father? And what if space turns out to be mostly bullshit? Sep 24 5 Life's Rich Pageant 9/24/19 Life's Rich Pageant 9/24/19 Life's Rich Pageant Frog-March This Revolting Gymnastics Robot Directly Into The Fires Of Mount Doom Albert Burneko 84 5 Here is the most disgusting video I’ve watched on the internet in a long time: Sep 19 4 9/19/19 Whatever Happened To The Other Wall Street Millionaire Accused Of Sexual Assault? Diana Moskovitz 48 4 Since 2017, eight women have gone to civil court and said they were sexually assaulted by the Wall Street financier Howard Rubin. One woman has since dropped her claim, but seven remain—six are suing as plaintiffs in one lawsuit in federal court, while another woman is suing on her own in state court, all in New York. … Advertisement Sep 16 10 Politics 9/16/19 Politics 9/16/19 Politics It's Not Your Responsibility To Make This Easy For Them Albert Burneko 257 10 A thing you get familiar with, if you ever write critically about the Democratic Party or about its establishment politicians from any perspective located to their left, is people giving you grief for having failed to support the team. “This is why the Democrats will [lose again in 2020/never win/never stay in power] ,” … Sep 13 2019 12 Politics 9/13/19 Politics 9/13/19 Politics Joe Biden Is A Doddering Old Mummy With A Skull Full Of Dumpster Juice Albert Burneko 383 12 Joe Biden’s politics are bad and he is a bad candidate. Ordinarily that might be the most important measure of a guy running for national office: That his positions, both as stated and as demonstrated by his decades in national government, amount to a tepid, grey, nutrient-free broth of long-discredited Third Way … Sep 6 2019 5 Media Meltdowns 9/6/19 Media Meltdowns 9/6/19 Media Meltdowns David Brooks Explores The Reaches Of Pure Mind Albert Burneko 112 5 Our old pal Alex Pareene has it right , of course: The New York Times , despite its pose as the one universal press outlet of humankind, ultimately is for a very narrowly defined class of East Coast rich people. Sep 5 2019 7 Politics 9/5/19 Politics 9/5/19 Politics Donald Trump Is Not Going To Let This Hurricane Thing Go David Roth 178 7 It can be difficult to remember given that he routinely appears on television with toilet paper on the soles of both his shoes and at least one of his hands stuck in a big jug of peanut butter, but Donald Trump’s opening position in all things is that he has never been wrong. He has been wronged , and is in fact … Advertisement More stories You may also like Gizmodo Bluetooth Unveils Its Latest Security Issue, With No Security Solution Shoshana Wodinsky Thursday 6:33PM The Root A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism Michael Harriot Thursday 5:00PM Kotaku RIP to everyone working video game retail this holiday season who will have to try...