A faux pas I stand by, but:

All of these people are simply finding their own ways to leverage the monarchy to achieve their own goals, whatever they may be. Which is probably what any of us would do if we had intentionally put ourselves in a similar position, as they have, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are basically doing business.

You mean they were fired or quit over ownership violating their contract and interfering in editorial.  But nice try sucking up to Spanfeller.

The Royal family is about as modern as the Pope is cool. All William and Harry did differently was pick their own wives. Those wives completely transformed their lives to fit into royalty while the men did nothing to change theirs. So THAT didn’t really change.

Honestly - it takes a special team to destroy a website in a span of several days for no apparent reason.

The idea of a monarchy at all is archaic so all of that wealth, prestige and privilege that was accumilated for doing nothing should be rejected if they really want to modernize anything.

Whelp, here we are. Deadspin has finally spun down.

Technically it’s a compound bow, not a crossbow. This is laziness incarnate: he probably had all that shit from “hunting”, which is something he likes to pretend to do. This is like a kid who dressed up as “boy scout” because he had the uniform already.

She kinda looks like that hot alien from the first Star Trek movie.

Furthermore:

I was in junior high and high school when this first ran. Got hooked immediately. For one semester, I didn’t get home from high school until 5, so I couldn’t watch it (a couple of decades before VCRs) . The first day back to a regular schedule, I noticed hardly anything had changed in the story line. I loved that…

Passions was the anime of soap operas.

Never forget.

Sometimes I think Laura Benanti’s imitation of Melania’s expression is too OTT. Then I see a picture like the one at the top here, and think, “nope, spot on.”

Does he really think that crying because your husband might imminently die is unusual? Really? This is almost more baffling than the whole sweeping the forests thing. Almost.

Reset them to default! DO IT!

Seriously. :(

I think you can probably see why the comments are off on Deadspin.

Before the shitlords at G/O disabled the comments at Deadspin, many of us in the commentariat decided to show solidarity with the writers by changing our avatars to GMG Union.

Um, what happened to the comments on Deadspin? They just disappeared. Things are getting scary around here.