Wow. Wow.

Great piece, and only one small quibble. Rovell is not "harmless". His worldview is profoundly nihilistic and destructive, which itself isn't a problem, but becomes one when he incessantly peddles it to his x00,000 followers (he blocked me long ago, so I can't look up his stats). He's a sociopath with a large platform.

Do you guys compensate for the thirty times a day I accidentally click on the wrong story on my phone because you intentionally make the screen shift right after the site loads?

Yea! How dare he be concerned about his own health!

I'm not going to jump your shit. But the only thing hitting a child teaches them is to one day....hit a child.

I feel like you're not a real person.

Congrats, you're an abusive parent. Showing your kid not to be violent by being violent? Excellent strategy. That poor baby boy, why do you think he hits, when you show him that hitting is appropriate? And shaking? How old is he? I've seen one too many kids with fucked up vision from being shaken. But I don't think…

-Remember that time I wrote a poorly-worded and confusing email to you that was just a hair under the length of the Infinite Jest?

-I do, ole chap! I had such a silly haircut back then. Welp, let's bury the hatchet and get back to completely ruining the entire fucking world.

evidently, you had no party to go to last night, and unfortunately, will have even less in the future.

Come on — they'll both have a good laugh about this at the I-bank in 5 years after they've just closed the big merger that will put 16,000 people out of work....

This is indefensible. And yet there are people in the comments to his post arguing that we're only hearing one side, that racism is a harsh thing to accuse anyone of, and:

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

Isn't he one of those right-wingy family values guys? I swear I remember reading something to that effect about him during the last election.

Fun fact: Greg Anthony is one of the few open Republican athletes. I'm not saying it's related, but it does make it funnier.

This is classic. It's almost unbelievable.

Dumbest person...

For all the dead ppl

Kill a man? WTF are you talking about?? God help the f***tards you ride with if they start to act like in the video (or in any way that makes a cop decide that is the best course of action). And god help them if they pull their guns or actually use them against a police officer...Then they're really f***ed for life if…