This is heartbreaking news. Helen Thomas was a pioneer and an inspiration for all female journalists. She's the female Woodward and Bernstein in terms of inspiring people to go into journalism. I've read her memoirs, and her stories of monumental historical moments, (Watergate, LBJ's swearing in, etc.) and her…

I think Brooks is an ass, but this isn't a completely uninteresting topic. Let's actually discuss this without his butt-headed arguments for a second. Keep in mind that I'm not "justifying" the boohoos here, but trying to understand it and discuss it.

This is where the phrase "History is written by the victor" comes into play.....

I've decided that if you follow a person and confront them, even after people told you NOT TO, you are responsible for what happens. You shoot the person? You go to prison! You get yourself killed? Sorry, but you shouldn't have been there! Done and done.

And if there's anything hotter than having sex with a spouse who doesn't want to, well I don't know what it is.

NEVER NEVER NEVER HAVE SEX, even if you want to.

Isn't it a bit rich for a German to generalise about a whole nation based on the behaviour of a few assholes?

Well, Wesley, normally I would get all riled up defending my father, but seeing as how your only comment on this site ever was a deliberate insult on a nearly 60-year-old man that you don't know, I think what is much more accurate is to post what I imagine is a picture quite similar to what you look like:

"Who's responsible for this racist embarrassment?!"

I think my dad has the perfect answer to the Paula Deen disaster:

If Zimmerman had killed a white kid, there'd be no controversy to begin with. He'd just go to jail.

The Zimmerman tweet is totally on point. Zimmerman only has supporters because he killed a black kid. If he killed a white kid those same people would want him in jail.

I thought I was maybe losing my mind, because that's how I read it, too, but everyone else seemed to have the exact opposite reading?

What?

statistics! so helpful to phobias!!! except nope they're not.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Get nationally embarrassed a third time and the um,what's the third one ... um ... ahhhh ... hmmm ...Ooops!

I'm going to start this, read away if you want.

How weird. You usually don't see domestic abusers actually blaming the victim for the abuse.