From his page: was born in Vsevolozhsk Russia on 8/9/1993 on a Tuesday. I was adopted at age 3 1/2 and lived in Frankfort Germany for about 4 years. In 2000 my family and I moved to the states. I grew up in Wheaton Illinois and moved out to the city when I was 19

Eh, I worked at a Starbucks, and it can be enormously difficult to institute a meaningful ban.

As the great George Carlin pointed out, “such things are mere symbols, and I leave such things to the symbol minded.”

I went to a soccer game last night and some jackass was screaming, “STOP WALKING, YOU’RE DISRESPECTING THE FLAG,” at people during the National Anthem. Yeah, and yelling at people is soooo much more better, guy. Flag fetishists are the worst.

Jfc.

The last part should have been a separate paragraph. Maher has been distracted this season, like he was coming down or was having memory issues.

There’s an entire field of study on precisely that question.

I’m ashamed to say I totally thought it was okay for me to ironically use the word because, after all, iiiii wasn’t racist. That was over ten years ago in my mid-twenties when I was pulled aside by an older black co-worker and put in my place. I don’t know how you get to Maher’s age without realizing that it doesn’t…

Maher didn’t radically misjudge the mood. He doesn’t give one damn about “the mood.” He’s simply racist. And sexist. And a narcissist. If people laugh, he’s affirmed. If they don’t, they just don’t get it or are too shackled by “political correctness” to be “with it”. But he’s never been with it. He’s an old troll in…

I’m glad the rest of the world is finally figuring out he’s a 61 year old edge lord with nothing meaningful to say.

If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it. Stop it now. Whatever the situation, even in “irony” [and from your perspective without malice], you’ve radically misjudged the mood. Stop it.

In short, it wasn’t a tabloid magazine (or so a friend in Australia assures me,) the reporter had been told on more than one occasion to drop it, one of those occasions it was the magazine’s legal department that told her to drop it, she went ahead and published it anyway, Wilson’s career tanked (and most of us in the…

I’ve liked her sometimes and I was willing to side with her until this. No one is bullying her. She is facing the consequences that come with free speech. CNN is not obligated to employ her, those casinos don’t have to give her a venue and people can decide this is too much. I wish this had been a mock press…

Honestly my post could have just been this image.

I saw Kathy Griffin interviewed on a late night show — I think it was Seth Meyers — a few years ago, and her main anecdote was about the time she ran into someone she’d said horrible things about on Fashion Police, and that person had the gall to let her know they were unhappy with her comments. Griffin was deeply…

THANK YOU.

100% agree. Was it an amazing piece of comedy? Probably not. Is it worthy of all this pearl-clutching and outrage, including from people on the left? HELL FUCKING NO. Also, internet, please stop comparing this to tea party racists burning Obama in effigy and fake lynching him, this is not even remotely comparable.…

I never thought much of her - I don’t find her particularly funny - but I absolutely do not understand why the left is throwing her under the bus. Not one bit. This is a free-speech issue that I thought we had resolved back in the 80s.

Man, this community’s willingness to shit all over Kathy Griffin (who has had an astounding career when you actually look it up) is gross. Our enjoyment of comedy is of course subjective and no one has to like anyone, but yikes.

You do know that Kathy Griffin has produced more stand up specials than any comedian in history—not just the female ones—right? She’s had a pretty sick career—world records, emmys, etc. You might not like her, but to say her career has been shit is patently untrue.