Thank you for your brilliant analysis and wonderful contribution to the discussion.

I'm going to stick around in this comment thread, which is sure to be a rational and productive discussion that—

... "it may be the simple Midwestern boy in me" indeed

They all seem to all know how to spell "butthurt."

Wait, these can't be real letters from St. Louis residents. Some of the words aren't even misspelled!

It's a cold, cold world.

Yet, Victoria Jackson persists.

Well, I can count at least three black people, so this is most definitely the Republican National Convention.

Gawker staff?

I heard that Stevie Wonder doesn't watch hockey but that's also by choice.

Look, as someone from Boston with a ton of hockey friends, I can comfortably say that they're all racists.

Nope. If you want to give money, just give it. If you want to form a foundation, an entity with a defined tax benefit, you have to be held accountable. Every bad nonprofit diverts resources from good ones.

I don't know why, but I really love this. +1

Big deal, he gave some old woman in Germany a lot of money so she could build a gingerbread house and eat children? At least he's helping somebody.

Scrotum? Damn near rectum.

All you libtards need to wake up. This is simply a case of AP doling out the same type of charity he received as a child growing up in East Texas. Or was it West Texas? I forget.

An interview with one of the North Texas Food Bank's leaders casts further doubt on if the right food bank was listed.

Maybe he figured there was more than one way to beat poverty.

I went to school with someone who was legally blind, they had a special little telescope to see the black board, and once joked when the teacher wrote on the black board with red chalk (he was also colour blind) that her chalk was broken. I think a lot of people classed as blind, though very poor, do have some useful…

go straight to hell