This is horrifying. One of America's most famous and beloved families being very publicly and painfully blown apart over the Christmas holiday.

What the fuck.

It's not just that we have lost so many famous people this year. It's that we've lost so many icons. That is rough.

Tom Brady isn't that bad, is he?

"Oh, so Star Wars was the bright spot in your crappy year, huh? Well now…"
- 2016

"This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell
That thou so many Princes and Princesses at a shot
So bloodily hast struck?"
- 2017

Half the crew of Serenity.

Leia Organa Solo strong-arming the fuck out of Borsk Fey'lya will always be my Leia.

I watched Good Will Hunting afterward and that was it for me.

This is incredibly sad and painful. RIP. I'm sure I will come up with something a bit more grand and elegiac to say in a few hours, but for now, just…fuck, man.

This year is terrible. Sixty is waaaaay too young. And right as the Star Wars revival was breathing new life into her career. Fuck. This. Shit.

For sure. At this rate, Bill will need to be time-regressed to infancy in order to get her out of the TARDIS when the time comes.

This was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the awful "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe" (and thanks for the reminder that piece of crap happened), but it was definitely very light — especially considering the past four Christmas specials ("The Snowmen", "The Time of the Doctor", "Last Christmas",…

In fairness, with regard to the ever-irritating "silently suffering nice guy etc." trope, season 3 was basically a genderswapped version that was played straight rather than for laughs.

Yes please check on them too. Also Aretha.

Somebody needs to check on Sir Patrick Stewart, Tom Hanks, and Dolly Parton right now.

And now George Michael is dead at 53: http://pagesix.com/2016/12/…

Delete your account.

This does help. Thank you. A good perspective, and one that doesn't apologize for the monstrous nature of what Russia is doing in Syria.

The Republicans wouldn't even acknowledge President Obama's constitutional right to name a Supreme Court justice almost a year ago. To them, Trump has been the de facto president since before he was even the nominee.