Why no marking for the grave? Because ironically Cosby doesn't want his body violated while at rest.

Saying "the public school system must be fixed" is just too broad for me. States have much more control over public education than the federal government does. They quality of public education varies. No Child Left Behind is a problem, and that is federally mandated.

Well, you're mixing up two very separate ideas. It is possible (easy is relative) to self-educate. But it also means you will not be exposed to a lot of knowledge you don't want to be exposed to, which limits your education, and people who learn on their own tend to be more dogmatically assured that they are…

I don't agree with point two, partially because I think it goes back further than that, and partially because I think it ignores the way Ivy League universities have been forming the method by which we converse over the past forty/fifty years, which wound up informing how politicians campaign, and a lot of that goes…

It's based on the show that all the people who hate Girls and Sex in the City—for being about entitled white people—love!

Hitler was not a vegetarian. Whether he stressed healthy living habits is, I guess, debatable.

I'm a college professor. The idea that colleges are "daycare clubs for rich white kids" is so absurd. Maybe the Ivy League schools are (where no one fails and rarely are C's given because that would hurt the school's standing). Maybe state universities try that through their Student Services programs. But at your…

There is little that frustrates me more than Person One being categorized as an idiot, moron or whatever by Person Two because Person Two violently disagrees with Person One. One can emphatically reject O'Neal's position, and still see from the quality of his writing that he is in no way an idiot.

I love all your criticisms in this post, and your disgust with personal politics masquerading as actual politics/news, but I hate all your suggestions for a remedy.

This is maybe a little too harsh, but I'm upvoting anyway.

Not if it was filmed digitally. And I don't need to know the size of the digit.

Yes, and I agree with them. It's just that, if we're going to argue a principle, as O'Neal seems to want to do, then talking about our having a right "privacy" is a bit tougher than talking about our right to seek redress for "slander."

Yes. And we should not allow the former. "Defame" is a tricky word, of course. There are those who would say Woodward and Bernstein defamed Nixon. They didn't. They reported on his actions, and they had proof to back up their allegations. "Privacy" is a bit more complex because there's no right to privacy in the…

I love Brandon's point above, about the way companies like Gawker have to money to evade libel laws.

"It’s about whether we should allow any publication to be silenced by someone with an agenda and a whole lot of wealth."

Out of curiosity, do you have an HDTV? I thought they were supposed to get antenna reception, but when in my old place, it never worked. As you can tell by my previous comment, I'm not sorry about that, but I would be curious if you do have an HDTV how you got it to pick up antenna signals.

Usually when people continue not to agree, they are accused of being intentionally obtuse.

You'll get mocked for this. I say good for you. Until I moved back in with my dad to help him out, I didn't have television, either. I had a t.v. set—used it for blu rays or Netflix, but no actual t.v. connection. My life was much better. Now back in a house with t.v., I waste far too much time on brain-dead stuff.

Not really something to brag about, but probably true. That largely relates to celebrity trials (sometimes I think a "jury of your peers" in celebrity trials should mean other celebrities, so that they aren't as wowed by the presence of a famous person), but also to the unfortunate fact that we have no physical…

Thanks for sharing his name, though. I'll try to keep a look out for his work, or interviews when they come. I do appreciate another perspective. Especially objective data, which helps to correct my personal, and thus more limited perspective.