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  Anti-Rainbow Keyboard Warriors A Lesson for Those Who Lashed Out About a Sports Logo Photo by  Mercedes Mehling  on  Unsplash My favorite sports team’s 100-year-old logo is red. For about half the games it’s white on red. For St. Patrick’s Day, it has been green. A small group of feisty, hardworking players who were fan favorites wore the logo in black and that apparel trended in the stands for a while. This June, the organization posted the logo on social media in the rainbow colors associated with Pride Month, the celebration of the LGBTQ community. The reaction was swift, angry, misspelled, and probably still raging . If you’ve ever put on a hazmat suit with a disposable vitriol shield and waded into the comments section anywhere, you don’t need me to tell you what it was like.  I’m just surprised that the simple change of the hue of a sports logo would trigger the kind of anger that it did. Breaking it down: I t’s a logo. I’m well aware that people take gr...

  Personal Evolution Revolution 5 Things The Suicide Machines’ Jason Navarro Would Like You To Know. Jimmy Doom May 21  · 3 min read The Suicide Machines levitating live show. Photo by David Dominic, Jr. If you’re struggling to make something positive out of your time, Jason Navarro might be a good guy to pay attention to. Skating a sonic Stormfront of ska and punk out of Detroit and onto an international stage, The Suicide Machines, fronted by Navarro, were a staple of the glory days of  The Warped Tour  in the ’90s, often compared to seminal Berkeley foursome  Operation Ivy , the band that spawned  Rancid. Navarro, a man of boundless energy and fierce loyalty possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of, and genuine love for music. He demands to give full credit to his musical progenitors. “People think Operation Ivy was a big influence on The Suicide Machines which they are, but  Gangster Fun ,  The Specials ,  Negative Approach ,...

  Hot Stoves and Amusement Parks It’s Your Responsibility To Teach Your Kids Not To Bully Disabled Kids Jimmy Doom Feb 20  · 3 min read Photo by  Ricardo Moura  on  Unsplash It seems the social media multiverse is patting humanity on the back because a few people, including some celebrities, rallied around a kid bullied due to dwarfism and now the kid is going to Disneyworld. That’s great. Now look in the mirror and see whose fault it is that the kid got bullied in the first place. You teach your little angels not to touch a stove, don’t you? To say please and thank you? Then how fucking hard is it to teach a kid not to pick on another kid who is different than them? There’s this thing Al Gore may or may not have invented called the internet. At the first sign of morning sickness, on this internet, you can download a gallery of every conceivable-pun intended-way a kid may differ from your plausibly physically and intellectually normative kid. Have you ...