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It's Thursday, September 11, 2014 from Slate, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca, and I tweeted the

meanest thing I've ever tweeted today and it felt good. Here's the background. Paul George's

professional basketball player, maybe you saw him if you saw him suffering this horrendous

leg injury, kept him off the national team. So now he's home resting, I guess using his time

to compose eloquence and insight like the following. This about the Ray Rice incident.

If you in a relationship and a woman hit you first and attacking you, then you obviously ain't

beaten her. Homey made a bad choice. And then I don't condone hitting women or think it's cool,

but if she ain't tripping, then I ain't tripping. Let's keep it moving, LOL. Let that man play.

So my tweet to Paul George was Paul George broke his leg by LOL straight tripping.

Yeah, you know, it was reveling in the injury and pain of another, but I was outrage today.

We know these serious and disturbing developments like the Ray Rice mangled situation,

you had Oscar Pistorius being found kind of innocent. You have the presidential speech about

ISIL, which you know is an ongoing problem that we all know about, but it's just cue the unbelievably

predictable fight over one sentence. ISIL is not Islamic. It's a pro-formal line. George W. Bush

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