I would like to register a complaint with management: there are WAY TOO MANY references to Hannity’s staff in an article about secret sperm. Also, got to give a GJI to twitter, #SecretSpermHannity is a thing.

the internet was a mistake

I realize now that I misspelled the name. I miss Disqus. 

I love what a scathing yet affectionate spoof Walter is of the Coen Bros’ friend John Milius.

To be fair, is John Goodman ever not memorable? Especially in a role like his role in Barton Fink, pointing him out would be like pointing out that Trump is stupid and corrupt.

John Goodman was pretty memorable in Barton Fink, too.

Watch This! Back from the dead?!? Hurrah!

Um, what does this candle smell like?

it would be the greatest day on twitter in history.

Not editing comments is a feature. Not being able to browse through comments in chronological order is a feature. Not being able to nest comments is a feature. Not being able to load more than like five comments at once is a feature. A ton of empty white space so that you can only see at max four comments at a time is…

I’m British, so Thatcher.

I danced when Falwell died, too. And I was scolded for it, by our office’s resident humorless nag. And I replied, “Fuck him. Still dancing”.

It’s a real and scary thing. My grandfather was a gun collector, including some antiques and unusual ones he used to love to show off, pre-Fox. In his later years, as the paranoia set in, he’d only take them out with the blinds clothed (in case Obama’s government was watching somehow, I guess) and always seemed to be…

My husband’s father just passed away and his last few days (when he was on some heavy medication) were filled with ISIS, anti-Obama, anti-Muslim, pro-Trump, Fox News all day rants. He had been hiding his things too and accusing his wife and daughter-in-law of being pro-ISIS because Fox News told him so. I completely…

I knew people with enough paranoia about the banks taking their 401k’s (which they kind of did), and CEO’s raiding pensions, etc., etc., - relatively run of the mill stuff, but when they found Fox News, it all became about the liberal snowflakes that are too soft to stand up for anything other than their own stupid…

Really sorry for your loss.

The shows are bad enough, and then half the ads (at least when I used to watch with my family) are for gold, survivalist gear, doomsday shelters, etc. It’s an entire media ecosystem built on fostering and harvesting paranoia.

Take comfort in the knowledge that Ailes died witnessing his last great work, the Trump presidency, go down in abject failure.

The damage caused by Roger Ailes is truly breathtaking in its impact and scope. Professionally, he was a proto-Rove Richard Nixon accomplice and enabler who went on to found the most powerful and pervasive propaganda network in modern history, which was profoundly responsible for training millions to disregard…