Ugh! I empathize with you. I had an injury on the job and after two years of surgery and physical therapy I ended up clearing $8k and a pink slip for an injury that left me with a 20% disability. Insurance companies are the worst.

Considering all the stuff that has leaked out since initial reporting about his family’s history with the school, the “homemade” clock, and how he responded to reasonable questions it seems more probable than not that this was an absurdly well-executed ploy by him and his family.

Oh I agree with that. But I’m just getting the impression that his father is a bit of a huckster, plus that (let’s face it) publicity stunt with his moving to Qatar. The authorities should be made to answer and compensate him accordingly, but that doesn’t mean that I have to like them. Or even think that they’re on…

Oh thanks! It was like 4 years ago. I'm just whining. Because I want money.

basically people, definitely not me, watched the kony 2012 video and reacted immediately and emotionally

I don’t. It’s an exorbitant amount. He should get something a bit more proportionate to the suffering he has experienced.

Fuck that. This was the best thing that ever happened to this kid, and he was in no way ‘damaged’ to the point of 15 million dollars.

I don’t understand Kony 2012 as a verb.

he won’t, and now the kid looks like a money-grubbing asshat.

I am starting to feel this way, too. It’s looking more and more like a circus/money grab by his father.

I feel like this kid is Kony 2012ing us

i might be wrong

but i already learned my lesson and have an embarrasing tshirt that I’ll never wear in public so

Yes, this. Because to him, their lives are worthless in comparison to his pleasure and enjoyment.

Not telling the women he’s having unprotected sex with that he’s HIV+ is an extension of that whole woman beating thing imo.

You seem to forget that she self-selected to attend the rally and accept an invitation to sit in the VIP section, instead of saying, “No, thank you.”

“You didn’t even stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for these folks. I do have empathy, but no sympathy. According to the Las Vegas Sun, the USAF has been trying to move these people out of there since the 1950’s with offers to buy their land and get the out of there. And they just want to remain there because of sentimental values.

Land of the free*

Courtney Stodden wins for Most Surprising Costume.

Pathetic is the perfect word I think.

Heidi Klum always kills it. But I think my favorite here was the Rock.