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Overall it was a silly thing to do. It's the kind of car you put way, way more money into than you'll ever get out ... unless that's what you do for a living. Still, as an old school MOPAR fan, that thing looks pretty awesome. I'd never buy one or spend the money to do what he did but it's...

It's another 'say vs do' situation. He said a lot, sure, but in the end he never prevented her from doing anything.

This is a pretty sweet ride.

I've said all I can really say but there's a few things here I want to clear up: First, the woman in question is a minority, not white. Second, he never ordered her to do anything, he requested. Third, the seats in question were his. He paid for them so he certainly can decide who he wants...

Yeah, it's a pretty sweet time to be a beer fan.

Not drinking any beer at the moment but my beer of the moment is Great Lakes Brewing Co's Chillwave. Awesome.

I was hoping you'd chime in on that, Danny. Thanks. Anyhoo, we do differ a bit. I don't think it's ever ok to damn someone because of an assumption you made about them. I fully believe he's a racist but I have no proof that he allowed that to impact any of his business ventures. I believe...

No problem. I simply don't like the way we pretend. Yup. Did it matter yet? Nope. Again, I'm not saying the NBA didn't have reason or right. The players drive the entire damned industry. Pretending what they say and do doesn't matter as much as what the owners say and do is just silly.

Yup, and I've never argued it wasn't. Oh pedantry, how I love thee. Turns of phrase are just that. At any rate, yes, he admitted to saying things in a private conversation that had nothing to do with his business. That's an assumption and nothing more. Dangerous, too, as people often...

Private conversations do not indicate public behavior/ And I never argued that it did. Straman says he's sad you're beating him up like this. Umm ... no. Comics can't do their act in Canadia. Nobody. Hate speech isn't the issue here. You wanted to know why I say that the fact that his...

It's a little different in the case of an owner and there are other steps that could have been taken first. The butterfly of the matter is that we don't know he did anything. You can't convict someone cuz they look like they did it, you need the butterflies to prove that they did. In this...

*sigh* How many times do I have to say 'I do not think the NBA did anything it was not allowed/did not have the right to do'? I haven't argued that the NBA did something it couldn't. Can we get off that strawman now? Thanks!

(Uhh ... sorry all for the multiple quotes but I was afraid of running into the text limit) 'Quick and harsh action' allows for more than one action. They didn't demand he be removed permanently, did they? Did they demand the owner's vote?

Then we do not have freedom of speech and we need to stop pretending we do. That's fine so long as we're honest. Yup, advertisers are gonna stop doing business ... with his team. You know, the one he owns. They didn't threaten to stop spending money with The Heat or even The Lakers (who...

Lower ranking people? Like the vastly famous people who play the game? The guys who everyone can recognize? They've had players say some awful things about gays and they did nothing. This is about a new commissioner looking to make his name.

If you're gonna take action against someone for something they did then you best have evidence they did it. When that case came out, there was no evidence beyond some people saying some stuff. Do I think he did what they said he did? Most likely. My assumption, however, should never be...

Finished Turgenev's Rudin. Overall pretty good but there was some of the typical classical Russian melodrama. I'm not used to that with his work. Anyhoo, starting Spring Torrents today.

The only source saying he agreed to be taped saying that stuff that I'm aware of is TMZ. As they also made the tape public and recording someone without their knowledge is illegal, well, it seems pretty damned suspect that those were words he was cool with putting to tape. She probably...

Meh, he lawyered up and was probably given specific instructions even during the interview. It was CYA crap and that's where the funny dies and the sad begins.

It's interesting, IMO. Obviously what he said was out of bounds but it doesn't appear he actually discriminated that way in his basketball business. I have heard that he's not such a great dood in his other ventures, though. That said, I find it sort of odd that they'd ban him and try to...