Hell no.

Those faces! This is my reason to get up today. That and my daughter woke up sobbing and screaming and stomping because she’s actually too tired to go to camp and figured that instead of saying she just needs a day, she’d try to light my head on fire by glaring at it and slamming doors. But she’s asleep now and this…

The symbol, I understand what it’s trying to do, but it looks like a dress-wearer in a stiff breeze.

Right.

Yeah, I don’t think you get to have a “news site” full of celeb trash and then do this too, Lauren. I actually don’t like it that you’ve dragged him into this.

Oh, my god, they both sound hideous even by Vows standards. I was 4000% unsurprised when This American Life showed up in the narrative.

Lolacat, you are a beautiful person. But I am afraid you would not have been able to help this lady and her kids. Because if the likes of this lady began bringing her children to you, at least some of your neighbors would be freaking out. And you would begin to resent how the mom was treating you, too.

I would bet money that:

Meh. I honestly had no idea who she was, and if a gate agent told me I was lucky for flying first class, I’d be all “OMG I KNOW, RIGHT?” (Unless it’s one of those crap “first class” sections that’s pretty much the same as coach.) First class is the shit. I love how the flight attendants try to get you drunk. I don’t…

Shut up and stop focusing on punishment, you sicko. I mean obviously that’s the important thing here, right? Your desire to punish and see people punished?

The fact, and you know it damn well, is that if we had sensible gun laws this woman wouldn’t have a gun. Someone would’ve known that she had this gun and shouldn’t have had it, would’ve reported her, and the gun would’ve been removed from the house.

The reporters who came around after those deaths helped to publicize terrible injustices. Helped to start a movement.

Random people who show up to make money off the death? Which is what, in the end, the news crew was there for? Yeah, I’d say you’ve got every right to be a complete asshole to them.

Nobody’s saying that part was right. Scheme of things, though? Don’t fucking show up across the street where someone’s kid has just been killed and talk in chipper fashion in order to sell ads for a TV station.

Oh, it pretty much is. I’m guessing a court would see it that way, too.

Why is it necessary that they show up there? The fact it isn’t. If they hadn’t had a crew available, they’d have shown a point on a map and a photo if they had one, maybe would’ve interviewed a cop. But your infotainment does not actually require their turning up to talk about the woman’s murdered kid across the…

Yeah. The question is: could you think of them directly after your child had been murdered and news assholes had turned up across the street from your house to talk cheerfully about it. I’m thinking all kinds of stuff might just wind up flying right out of your mouth.

Say, who was the editor, again?

Some guy named Woodward, too. Man, was he self-absorbed. All these personal journeys in halls of power, def beach memoir territory.

Sure. I mean this is exactly why nobody took David Halberstam seriously. Last I heard he had an Etsy store.