Think of the world that hippies were born into, though. Just teach your kid the truth, and show compassion. Hopefully she’ll get it.

Even as a little kid I always found girls and sex alluring. At what point did that interest become hunger? Probably 13? I don’t think a celebrity kicked it off for me, though.

There’s flawed and there is choosing, for decades, to use one’s talent, power and position to deliberately hurt other people. Cosby didn’t have a drinking problem or hard to control mental illness. He spent decades drugging and raping women for no other reason but to enjoy the power it gave him.

That sounds like an awesome essay! Thank you for recommending it!

That’s awesome. Truly awesome. It’s so strange to me that Christian for A LOT of people means being a gun-toting, Muslim-hating, nativist asshole.

That’s a good way to look at it.

He was a pathological gambler who borrowed from his friends and never paid them back; and he deserted his wife and kids. Superb writer, though.

Show me a Christian with a handgun or automatic weapon, and I’ll show you someone who missed the point of what Jesus was talking about.

I’m finding it very hard not to judge that woman.

Don’t go nuts buying baby furniture. My parents bought me two proper dressers when I was born, and my wife and I still use them.

Dan Carlin is awesome. He did a 5 part series on the Mongols a few years ago that was excellent.

I know you dislike me, but I have to say your comment was a genuinely good zing. I tip my hat to you.

I think there are some examples where the artist himself changes the context of the art in a really important way. Bill Cosby’s entire image was built on him being a good person and a family man. His personality is the entirety of his career so learning disgusting and inexcusable things about his person necessarily…

I completely understand what you mean.

That is an awesome quote.

Judge not lest ye be judged by future generations. 

the fact that they are their own product. If they were painters, I wouldn’t have to look at their faces or hear their voices every time I enjoyed what they created.

Yeah, I’m not sure why they don’t keep it up.

I truly feel that using an artist’s life to judge his work is a pernicious habit. I also think it’s mean-spirited, since it’s so often just used by people who want to sneer at the artist. Do these high-minded ones ever say how marvellous it is that such awesome work could arise out of such a sordid human being? Do…

I’m surprised the pissing contest doesn’t happen more regularly. Seems like an easy way to get clicks.