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Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Seattle Seahawks | Defector
Aug 13, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Seattle Seahawks. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Seattle Seahawks. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Seattle Seahawks. Your 2023 record: 9-8, which would be the equivalent of going 4-13 […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Indianapolis Colts | Defector
Aug 12, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Indianapolis Colts. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Indianapolis Colts. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Indianapolis Colts. Ever wonder what would happen if Hunter Biden owned a football team? […]
It's Kendrick's Party, You Can Cry If You Want To | Defector
Nov 26, 2024 · Maybe this is my fault. For years, I’ve been begging Kendrick Lamar to lighten up a little. To stop with the hip-hop savior complex and the often incoherent political grandstanding. To stop treating music like a college level African-American history course and just enjoy himself. Well, that more or less arrived in 2024: the year […]
Can Someone Please Write Normally About This Fascinating …
Nov 20, 2024 · Augusta Britt has had, by any reasonable accounting, an extraordinarily rich and interesting life, and seems like a vivid and fascinating person. By her mid-teens in the mid-1970s, she was a pistol-packing Arizona refugee from her own abusive family and any number of atrocious foster homes. She met the novelist Cormac McCarthy by a motel […]
Lapse Of Judgment | Defector
Nov 25, 2024 · Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. The Federalist Society convention the week before last opened with a joke from a federal judge. Here was the joke, as reported by Bloomberg: . Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham kicked off the Federalist Society’s ...
Books You Can Read Tonight To Distract Yourself From Whatever …
Nov 5, 2024 · No one knows anything. Everyone claiming to know something is lying. The odds are 50-50, always, even if they say the odds are different. And though it can be a delicious hell to watch cable news and scroll on your phone all night, it does not make actually the election get decided any faster. In […]
The Secret Lives Of Squirting Cucumbers | Defector
Nov 25, 2024 · The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders on a vine on the ground, sprouting craggly green leaves and demure yellow flowers. Neither are Ecballium's fruits memorable to look at; the pale, bristly green pods are around the size of erasers and dangle glumly off their stems.
Rudy Gobert Found A New Guy To Annoy | Defector
Nov 22, 2024 · The Raptors went on a run from there and won, 110-105. Somewhere in there, Randle hit Gobert with a nice dump-off for a dunk. But in the meaningless last seconds of regulation, Randle flung him a spiteful, thigh-level pass and slumped off the court. Seems great.
Mortality Always Wins By Knockout | Defector
Nov 20, 2024 · People hate Jake Paul. He is the walking personification of a Reddit board: a cocky, belligerent white boy who loves to troll as much as he loves to use mental health issues as marketing. His transition from YouTube provocateur to “serious” “boxer” has been built on the calculated decision to fight washed-up black athletes. It’s […]