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Nick Martin
nickamartin
Staff Writer

No, you greyed all the commenters!

I’m pretty sure it is The Ringer’s new spin-off.  Read more

Splice this to The Takeout. Because that list... those rankings... damn. Read more

5000% on board with you on this and we should add: it’s not just Native Americans they ignore, they ignore literally anyone who isn’t white and, except for one segment’s instance, anyone who isn’t a white man. Read more

This is disappointing because I expected a lot more from the Coens, who typically portray their characters with a deep sensitivity. For a good palate cleanser, try to see Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ’uuna), the first-ever film made entirely in the Haida language in Haida Gwaii off the coast of British Columbia. Made Read more

Hey, Dwayne, I’m not gonna bring you out of the grays, but you should probably know what the fuck you’re talking about before sticking your foot in your mouth like this:

I love a good Western, but I’m so tired of the apathy—or outright disdain—that most creators, even modern ones, in the genre have toward Native American characters. I appreciate you highlighting a few that have tried to remedy some of the sins of the past, but...damn, it’s way past time for a Western film that centers Read more

Considering Netflix brought us Billy Madison Yucks It Up With Chief Wahoo (aka The Ridiculous 6), and not only didn’t try to make things right but doubled down its support of it after racist morons made it a Netflix record breaking hit, don’t know if we should ever expect them to strive to do the right thing. Read more

Other good movies to nap to (according to my Dad, who passed out during all of these in the multiplex): Read more

Ah, the movie theater nap. One of the best naps IMO

Other good naps:
- “Long ride on a half-empty bus” nap
- “2nd Quarter of mid-afternoon NFL game” nap
- “Got off early from work and napped until exactly when I would have gotten home” nap Read more

Dam, looks like Falkor got rabies.

Sarah Elliott, who was born in Virginia, was a member of the Tea Party and worked as a researcher for the Grover Norquist-led group, Americans for Tax Reform. It’s there that she met Elliott, per DeSmog UK, who long admired Norquist. Read more

And here we have a living, breathing argument in favor of the estate tax. Read more

The whole thing is even more shocking when you realize the $19.8 million doesn’t even include all the security upgrades that had to be implemented to protect her from surprise grizzly bear attacks. Read more

It has been so hard this past decade to watch my home state gleefully leap backwards. I was lucky enough to grow up here in the 90s with still well-funded public schooling (and no charter schools) and finish college in the mid 2000s, right before the massive Republican takeover.
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Presuming to correct a stranger on the matter of his own race based on a thumbnail photo you saw of him is an incredible fucking take, man. Read more