I never said nor implied "boys will be boys." If anything, my point was "people will be people," and people often use humor to deal with terrible events. And that we shouldn't assume these boys had anything to do with the rape simply because they were joking about it, no matter how heinous we (and I'm including myself…

Thank you. Exactly my point.

I just love the public lynching I've received on this site. In the future, I'll know that I'm simply not permitted to make any comment on any story involving rape. Even though I'm the most liberal, feminist, pro-woman gay man any of you will ever encounter, I still have a penis, and therefore I'm a misogynist and a…

And you're a Klansman. (Absurd, you say? No more so than you calling me a rape apologist.)

God bless you for being literally the only commenter on this site to understand my point, rather than flying into an irrational rage and assuming that I'm a misogynist (or worse).

Actually, I did read online jokes about Newtown immediately afterwards. They were horrifying to me, just as the comments in this video were. But I didn't assume the people making the Netwown jokes were child murderers, just as I didn't assume the boys in the video were rapists.

That's not what I wrote, and you know it.

No, I just don't buy that some jokes are OK but other jokes aren't. As a comedian, I can tell you with certainty that nearly every joke you can think of is based on tragedy. In any joke, someone is always the victim. That's why context is key.

Because so many commenters seem to know for a fact that main speaker in this video was actually present during the rape and was the one who live-tweeted the attack as it was happening (none of which is mentioned in the article above), my original comment becomes nullified. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent…

Yeah, as expected, you've missed my point entirely. My friends and I would never have a conversation such as this one. But we have had conversations and made jokes, often about our own tragic experiences, that some would find objectionable or offensive. The point is, what you say in jest when you're in your own home…

I keep reading similar comments to yours, but I have yet to see a single bit of evidence. How do we know he's one of the ones who live-tweeted the incident or "was probably present or saw photos?" We don't. We don't know who this kid is or what is role was, if he even had one.

And respectfully to you, none of that is factual. The First Amendment doesn't make an exception for speech that's "in violation of human rights," whatever that means. Americans are free to say any kind of vile things they want about other individuals and groups, hence (for example) publications put out by neo-Nazi…

How do we know that? There is nothing in this video that indicates where or when it was recorded. Or am I missing something obvious?

I'm sure I'll be flayed for writing this, but here are my honest feelings about this video:

In one of the several restaurants where I worked as a waiter, we were taught that the single worst thing you can do is to leave a dish on the table that the customer has already told you has displeased him in some way. It doesn't matter the reason or who's at fault: He's not happy with his steak, take the fucking…

He was enjoying a Scooby snack!

I actually like that third, beaded cream-colored look quite a bit, ridiculous gloves and shoes notwithstanding. It flatters her outrageous proportions to the extreme, yet it's somehow also rich-looking and age-appropriate.

Shirley Temple didn't sing "I Want a Hippo For Christmas." It was sung by the unfortunately named Gayla Peevey (who, I admit, sounds a lot like Temple).