I like your style.

Didn’t someone shoot up a Congressional softball practice or something similar? They don’t even want to change things after their own get shot. I really thought Sandy Hook, but nothing, then when they themselves were fired upon by it seems they just doubled down. I don't think anything could change their mind.

Hey, if you want to piss all over Star Trek: Discovery, please report to io9...

Jared Kushner didn’t use this particular scam, he used the old school method of a well-timed 2.5 million dollar donation, which is ethically dubious at best, but a different scam. At no point did Jared have to pretend to be an athlete, his parents just paid more in a different manner that happens to (technically) be…

The athletics programs are a necessary component of this scam. Schools don’t lower their admission criteria due to an applicant displaying community service, however, if you can throw a ball, who cares if you don’t actually deserve the spot academically. Lots of applicants who did take real AP classes and their own…

This is highly unlikely due to the lack of revenue. It is also a lot harder to fake an ability to debate, any jerk can sit on a rowing machine. 

Yes. 

Exactly, as a teacher, I am beyond tired of the increasing incursion of athletics into academic institutions. They are different things, if you want to be a paid athlete, don’t go to school. The idea that athletes deserve special treatment is maddening. 

Every single one of these kids needs to be unceremoniously tossed out of the school mommy and daddy bought their way into. This is solely on the basis that nobody should reap the benefits of a crime. I can’t even begin to describe how angry this makes me, I teach 12th grade in Harlem and watch students break…

I absolutely agree. Even if the kids didn’t know, which the staged photos, faked exams, etc. make incredibly hard to believe, there is no reason a rich, privileged white kid should be allowed to keep what amount to the proceeds of a crime when they would have drained the admissions account of a drug dealer or bank…

Fuck this noise, I will take eternal New York winter over the dreaded sticky mouse trap feeling of this city in the summer.

As a school teacher, I agree this is a major omission. There are a ton of people that would not have much use for a good portion of this list and would find a lot missing. Also, some get them off regardless. These would be high on my list because I get the time off with zero obligation. Other religions holidays are…

If only we could be excellent to each other.

I’d really like a companion piece to this. Can we please strand Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell in East New York with a journal?

Was that Daffy Duck in the second video?

Jeff Sessions, you are a fucking oxygen thief. I truly hope something genuinely horrible happens to you and the world simply laughs due to the outright cruelty you have inflicted upon a nation whose ideals you clearly never understood. You are in fact a racist, and I truly hope you are right about hell and I am wrong,…

The difference is that one is a comedian, the other is a white house advisor. Ricky Gervais creates punchlines, Stephen Miller just has people willing to wait in line for the opportunity to punch him him.

RDJ was in fact paid far more, and while he beat Scarlett Johansson, she more than doubled what anyone besides RDJ made. Salaries from Age of Ultron:

Except one of the authors of the original piece of art had in his will, that he preferred his work not be used for commercial purposes. The content is objectionable to say the least but anyone’s dying wishes in regard to their creations should be respected.

I just wanted to thank you for pointing these aspects out which were not made clear in the article. I understand the points of many commenters here from a logical perspective, but this seems like it was framed in a manner that bypasses the intention of both you and your husband. Writing often requires difficult and…