the Koch brothers and their Koch Industries company will supposedly have “no influence on Meredith’s editorial or managerial operations,” despite providing the company with such a significant pile of cash.

Yeah, and Rupert Mourdoch TOTALLY had no influence when he bought the Wall Street Journal.

Ugh late capitalism suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Unfathomable as it may be, he’s just pursuing the same strategy that’s worked for him so far:

1.) Say something idiotic/horrible/demonstrably false.

2.) When confronted, lie about having said it, pass the buck, or defend it as if it’s the inquirer’s issue for pointing it out, sometimes all at once.

3.) Repeat ad…

There are a shocking number of people on-line who want to be able to have sex with young teens. Everytime this issue comes up, they wish to parse the wording and to claim that 14 is really more like 18 than 12. It’s a lot like how many white people really want the right to say or write ni%%er.

He’s a pedophile because he tried to pick-up, at best, or molest, at worst, a 14 year-old girl

I’m concerned this may undermine his credibility.

My dad once told me a story from the old country about a guy he was acquainted with. Nice guy. Everybody thought so. Normal, respectful, upstanding fellow. One day they were talking about a recent news event: a man had been discovered to be a member of a persecuted religious minority/scapegoat, dragged to the edge of…

National Socialism was always beloved in America until Pearl Harbor. The business class and the upper middle class thought Hitler was swell, a less Eye-talian version of Mussolini, there to make Germany orderly like under the Kaiser, and if people wound up in “jail” for not going along with it, tough shit. Try to find…

White people:

We have plenty to criticize that doesn’t go after her looks. Be better.

I love how thoroughly he’s embraced his natural asshole vibe in his latest roles. Though I guess his whole career has been playing various assholes, some relatively more likeable (Josh) than others (preppy in Revenge of the Nerds II), but all assholes nonetheless.

Bradley Whitford is one of the good ones. In fact, he’d have voted for Obama for a third time if possible.

“Based on your last 10,000 comments, your ideal partner would be Stone Cold Steve Austin’s head on Tahani’s body,”

I’d prefer to celebrate by running over 5 workmen with a runaway trolley.

Unsurprising? Come on, you gotta admit it’s at least a little surprising. I love this show dearly, but I won’t be even slightly surprised when it ends. The fact that we got 2 seasons already floors me. Between the simple fact that the best sitcoms tend to die young and the fact that this show is so high-concept, every…

I love this show as much as Eleanor is boundlessly horny for Tahani.

Which she continued to eat. :)

Hard and fast rule for Irish names: if you sound drunk while saying it, then you’re pronouncing it correctly.

Saoirse is actually See/Sea-rsha, apparently Ronan is the only one who pronounces it Ser-sha, i once saw Irish people describe her as “that chick that doesn’t know how to pronounce her own name.”