It’s because easy answers are easy. It’s because cable TV convinced liberal millenials that smugness was all they needed to enact change. Actual activism is sometimes boring and also sometimes painful. Plus, sometimes protesters look silly and silly people get made fun of on cable TV. Image is everything, as the ads…

Dissing Goobergate on Kotaku. So brave.

I kinda want a refund, since they’re gonna ram Clinton down our throats anyways.

The Daily Show didn’t work with a Democrat in the White House. It became forced and fake. Bitching about Congress doesn’t scratch that outrage itch like bitching about Bush did.

Someone is overlooking the collected works of Bill Arkin.

Waller County

Only once you answer my query on how you possibly could regard Gawker’s clickbait blogging as “journalism”.

You’re a brave and principled hero. Just like Max Read and Tommy Craggs.

Belittling you and explaining to you why you’re wrong

So nice to see that strawmen are in your pantheon of what constitutes “true journalism”.

With the “hot take” meme? Yeah, that would have stung badly, back in 2012.

Hashtags don’t work in comments, Grandma.

You’re not Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter S. Thompson is dead. Quit trying to be Hunter S. Thompson.

Yeah, I know that if I ran a publication, I’d be beating down the door to hire a guy who greenlit, edited and then resigned in defense of an article that will undoubtedly result in a multi-million dollar lawsuit that Gawker will have to settle out.

Gawker is and never was “journalism”. At this point, it seems more and more like a cult, actually. The way some people are throwing down for a fucking blog is what’s really disturbing here.

Unless of course he can only be friends with people he currently works with.

Shots fired. Send an ambulance. Send all the ambulances.

It seemed to hit Gawker really hard when they discovered that there were other websites on the internet and some of those websites had more readers and/or better content. To this day, they seem to regard it as some sort of betrayal when any of “their” commenters admit that they peruse those “enemy” websites.

So, are you a big slavery fan or just a fan of treason, in general?

Over 10,000 Confederate conscripts in Lee’s army immediately deserted when he invaded the north. Every soldier in that army knew that the reason those soldiers deserted was because they were angry about being lied to when they were told “we’re doing this to protect our homes”. Every soldier that remained in that army,…