Yeah, Cosby, because the thought of someone making you ingest something against your will and knowledge is pretty fucking horrifying, huh?

I’m still hoping Boston trades the first pick to Toronto who takes Ball. I want to see anarchy on draft day at the Ball family table.

I have a feeling they cut off his penis. Am I the only one that gets this vibe?

There’s a debate that needs to happen about the appropriate level of social welfare. That debate can’t happen because one of the major parties insists that level is “zero” and characterizes people who rely on the social safety net as lazy entitled drains on society (I’ve dealt with those folks on occasion, this…

Wasn’t Walmart teaching their employees how to apply for things like foodstamps because they were paid so little?

Protip for idiot Republicans: people on food stamps work. Some of them are even serving their country in the military.

I go into this in more detail over at the Root’s post on it, but although minor-seeming, it is plagiarism. At best, as you pointed out, he failed to meet academic standards for source citation. Shit shoulda been thrown out and rewritten if someone had picked up on it at the time. If his thesis is defective, probably…

Yeah. It’s sad he lived a life so terrible that the world celebrates his death.

You can’t square yourself by dying.

As the late great Pratchet said about Vorbis: “…the worst thing about [him] isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil”

To a lesser extent this is my father. You’ve hit the nail on the head - Ailes did irreversible damage to our democracy through fearmongering. I hope he goes down in history as the Goebbels of our time.

It’s always been amazing to me that people can get praised for being good at ruining the world.

Pet peeve time: I’m neither frightened nor jarred by the possibility that Trout is really good and getting better.

It’s good when bad people die and can no longer make the world shittier.

That’s why I’ve been saying Ailes and his ilk are fucking traitors. They’ve intentionally sowed dissent and flat out contention between Americans for the sake of ratings. I doubt they even believe half the bullshit they’ve flung against the wall.

The recent biography of Ailes, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” is a fascinating book. Ailes’ prime feat was figuring out how to sew contentious disagreement among the public, and then stoking that disagreement to get ratings. He is truly as responsible as any other figure for the fierce political divide in our…

Time to Godwin, but would it have been bad to celebrate Hitler’s death? If you say no, then it’s not a matter of whether it’s wrong to celebrate a death, it’s just a matter of line drawing.

Wholly agree - and would add Rupert Murdoch as the people who will go down in history as contributing the most to the downfall of democracy and the dumbing of America.

Death comes in infinities.

Many of our country’s biggest problems are thanks to Roger Ailes. He did not create them but his actions and his network made it politically impossible to solve them.