Don't look now but a group of a-holes are busily destroying another retail product they've already purchased. You might recall the last time this happened when wizards in red hats were smashing their televisions, televisions they already paid for, in protest against ...read more
Full disclosure: I can be a vitriolic writer. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Thanks to a potent cocktail of bearing witness to insane levels of stupidity coupled with my own laziness, I'm often a profane, sarcastic asshole making futile attempts to hammer home the central ...read more
On Wednesday night, Republican House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted journalist Ben Jacobs of The Guardian in response to being asked about the CBO score for the American Health Care Act. Even more shocking than a white, conservative male resorting to brazen violence when he ...read more
A mother frustrated about school administrators' ineffectual response to the bullying her son has suffered for more than a year was arrested for comments she made on Facebook about it. “And they asked why do people shoot up schools,” Teri Pallat, the mother of a 15-year-old boy ...read more
Pre-Script: I know I just wrote about the NFL last week, but this has been one of the strangest weeks of off-field NFL activity that I can remember. But to help remind you (and myself) that football isn't all bad, here's a link to a story about an inspirational middle school ...read more
This past Saturday, 17-year-old Carlos Vigil of Albuquerque, New Mexico committed suicide. He had dedicated his teenage years to being an advocate against bullying, a subject he knew all too well, as he'd been mercilessly bullied most of his life for his weight, his acne, his ...read more
One of the more successful things about Mitt Romney's doomed 2012 campaign was his ability to portray himself as an aw-shucks clean-cut good guy; a Mormon who never drinks or smokes or uses profanity, and quite literally uses the word "gosh" in every day language. But just ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: I still remember the heartbroken look on his face as he stood at my doorstep in his little green-striped shirt and Toughskins khaki shorts. His name was Doug and he lived up the street from me -- and for some reason he desperately wanted to be my friend. He ...read more