Great piece from the Daily Show. My favorite jokes were:- "If you follow the world of sports and/or homosexuality"- Jon going nerdy with three gay wizards: Ian McKellen, Dumbledore and Jason Collins- Video cut getting Obama to say: "[Speaking for Jason] I'm still 7 foot tall and can bang with Shaq."- Jon Stewart and Jason Jones longing for the ability to make Linsanity-like puns that ended with GESPY (Gay-ESPY). In general, I found this a good piece in that it is propelled by an intellectual point (of how a non-flashy coming out is still important and impressibe) with a little light humor around it.
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John commented on Read 22 Horribly Negative Twitter Reactions To Jason Collins' Coming Out:
“Love how 90% of these people have terrible grammar. Just shows the type of people that are homophobic. I seriously feel like who gives a shit? These losers are just scared of being called gay themselves.”
When I peeled my sticky skin from my sheets this morning, I expected to find a world in shambles. Where was all the wailing and gnashing of teeth? LeBron James had won an NBA Championship and a Finals MVP award just a few hours earlier, and obviously Earth should have flipped polarity, or SOMETHING. Instead, people seemed to be going about their days as if nothing unique had happened.
So what did happen? Put simply, the best player in the NBA over the past five years or so finally won a championship in his third attempt, which is a good thing for the league. But for all the ink that has been spilled on LeBron, it seems more significant than even, say, Kobe winning a title without Shaq. It's a relief.
Of course, we could nitpick and note that recordmakers will append an asterisk to this title because of the lockout, but the Miami Heat aren't going anywhere. For the next several years, any team in the East will have to build their team with the Heat in mind; how do you beat them? For an example of how NOT to do this, see the Atlanta Hawks.
So. I think I'm as relieved as LeBron to see him finally win a championship (note: no I'm not), especially because it was an inevitability. Even the Thunder, who had resigned themselves to a blowout loss somewhere around the middle of the third quarter, acquiesced to LeBron's long hugs during the dying seconds of the game:
Now, maybe -- MAYBE -- we can start enjoying the NBA again. The Finals ended 4-1, but they were fantastic, and I wouldn't mind seeing the Thunder and Heat duke it out every season over the next couple of years, especially if Oklahoma City can figure out a way to hang on to James Harden. Which they probably won't be able to do, but whatever.
Hey, here's LeBron James, Finals MVP, dancing on the sidelines! He loves it!
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