Great work with this piece, Molly. The Ricketts family is a special sort of scum. My parents, my brother + SIL live in Nebraska, and every time politics comes up as a topic they rightfully rant about the Ricketts clan (none of them voted for Pete). Unsurprised to see the Anschutz clan referenced in an email you…

Get better/heal fast, Drew! You are my favorite writer in all of Gawker and post-Gawker history. Your writing is so solid that it can be read aloud smoothly, perfectly ripe for inflection (with no awkwardness) which is no mean feat.

Gronk has to be on there, somewhere. He absolutely has to be on the list—or at the very least an honorary mention—since it’s his favorite number.

This. The devotion to that stupid fruit (TOMATOES ARE FRUIT) is kinda funny at this point.

Thank you, my kind person.

I love historical reminder non-sequiturs like this. To be perfectly honest, I’d take a massive volcanic eruption if it temporarily delays global warming. Granted, nothing would grow. But a few years of dystopian depression kind of appeals to me today.

Go fuck yourself. Lives of women and mothers should be protected, particularly as they are sentient human beings.

I’d put my money on your statement’s side

Speaking of fun facts, I would still challenge any of the conservatives to accurately state all of what you posted PLUS accurately explain the overall reproductive systems of humans. Sans prompts, hints, cues, etc. I rarely go for the dickish litmus test of “must know everything in minute detail”, but this is one case…

Hey, fellow public health worker! 

Thank you for filling in the gaps for people: I loathe these context and detail-devoid pieces of late around here. I work in one of the top public health programs in the nation, currently collaborating with JHU faculty on two international research studies. Four of the SMEs I work with are principle investigators…

Until we have a system that enables post-high school students to attend the university of their choice free from worries about tuition or economic burden—this sort of philanthropy is essential.

This deserves more stars.

He could do the country a service in preventing further national catastrophe by simply resigning. He’s such a helpful backseat driver, with perfect 20/20 hindsight and all the inherent ego and obvious sub-zero IQ that accompany both.

It says something about the current philosophy governing/approving the commentariat. Shifting the needle for a new stable of writers isn’t unusual. But I’m not sycophantic enough to say anything other than this is total crap.

Hear, hear. Snyder did a fantastic service to the character and the movie in general. It was a sequence of beauty and terror in all senses of the word.

You should not be greyed. Ever. EVER. Former EIC also took me out of the foggy hinterlands. This is stupid.

On topic, I agree with you vis a vis Sanders.

Hear, hear. Voter suppression and disenfranchisement should be a daily national outcry until the system is overhauled to ensure equity, access for all US citizens of voting age. The farcical legacy of claiming to be a country based on rights, built on the voices of the people must ensure that rights are recognized and…

This. I wish they would fix the actual multiple-accounts-belonging-to-one troll problem, among letting others slip through.