Not only do comedians have to live on the edge of good taste, they also have to try stuff out to see what lands and what doesn't. If an audience rejects something as over the line, it gets dropped. That's the process at work. 

He did both, but your point stands. The ordinary folks who lost everything were not the reasons the Madoff went down. 

Decent wage and Ferro-level wealth are two very different things. Best not to conflate the two. 

There’s immunity to embarrassment, and then there’s total fucking absence of human empathy. I’m sure that’s a great asset in banking, too.

And even in the case of Madoff, the advocate for the victims was severely restricted in his efforts to try to claw back the illicit gains from his clients who had profited, which dramatically limited his ability to help out those who’d lost everything.

Avarice is the mother of invention, should probably be how the saying goes.

I had access to money and power once, all I had to do was keep my mouth shut and let my soul slowly fade away. It wasn’t for me. So you can go suck an egg.

Fundamentally, to get the kind of monetary power that people like Ferro and his cronies have, you have to be a bad person. You simply cannot acquire that degree of wealth and have a soul. 

“MLB Says Mets, Cardinals Improperly Filed Paperwork on 1983 Keith Hernandez Trade, Mets Must Forfeit Every Game Hernandez Played in or Called as Broadcaster”

Great, now I’ve got all this outrage and no place to put it. Thanks, Barry.

Why would you wish such indignity on your own progeny?

NEW YORK - Mets Manager Mickey Callaway backtracked after previously having claimed that team doctors had given David Wright gallons of spinal fluid via intravenous therapy, claiming that in actuality it had just been a pair of aspirin by mouth and no one could tell where all the spinal fluid on the field came from.

Future headlines:

Fair points all around. And even The Dark World has it’s redeeming points. There’s Loki ... and also ... Loki ... and Stellan Skarsgard in his underwear?

I’d love to, but I’m required by my employer to be on there to “build my brand,” whatever the eff that means.

For a lot of journalists nowadays, deleting your social media is simply not allowed. Being active online and “self-promoting” has become a job requirement. (“self-promoting” meaning that news staff is required to pick up marketing functions). Which means if abuse arrives, they just have to tolerate it.

I like Civil War, but I think your point is valid nonetheless.

Reaching for what? This article isn’t really anti-Hader. In fact it’s explicitly neutral on Hader himself.

I really want to know why DC can’t get this right.

I dunno, I find it to be a useful signifier that you can ignore all the preceding text.