When I was a young child, my mom told me that presidential candidates would vote for the other person as a sign of respect, and now that I'm grown | realize my mom was a fucking liar
While I understand the criticism, if Kobe isn’t the patron saint of basketball who is? It isn’t James Naismith, dude made the game he didn’t ball like Mamba
NBA fans were so traumatized by Kobe’s death that they immediately created a religion based around him & it is so fascinating. it’s almost like we now see Kobe not as a human man, but as the patron saint of basketball or as a sports deity. I think about this a lot
If the United States had executed on president Nixon’s “project independence”, announced in response to the Arab oil embargo, of building 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000, we would have a fully decarbonized power infrastructure today.
It was opposed by environmentalists.