This man is a super star. I highly recomend his book 'The Pluto Files', where he got death threats from kindergarden kids, scribbled in crayon, over the demotion of pluto to a dwarf planet. Futher more, in
juxtaposition (in support of the demotion), The following comes from
astro'physicist Howard Brenner:

"F##k pluto, it was a sorry excuse for a planet anyhow, good riddance to bad solar trash, but now that the name is free, why not rename Uranus Pluto and get rid of all that grade school snickering."

Very entertaining book and a nice sift

Please don't say things I agree with and disagree with in the same comment. It's very selfish as it means I can't up- or down-vote the comment. </sarc>>> ^bcglorf:

Hurray!
Of course, I consider Cenk a watered version of Glen Beck for the extreme left.
Good riddance, I never figured guys like him belonged on a major network anyways. Mind you, there's about a hundred guys at Fox I'd rather see gone first...

>> ^bcglorf:

Hurray!
Of course, I consider Cenk a watered version of Glen Beck for the extreme left.
Good riddance, I never figured guys like him belonged on a major network anyways. Mind you, there's about a hundred guys at Fox I'd rather see gone first...


Ha ha ha u dum.

Hurray!

Of course, I consider Cenk a watered version of Glen Beck for the extreme left.

Good riddance, I never figured guys like him belonged on a major network anyways. Mind you, there's about a hundred guys at Fox I'd rather see gone first...

What is wrong with people? Good riddance and good for him!

I'll be in the lounge. This protracted argument has gone stale. "Good Riddance."

Pabst Blue Ribbon!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
@dystopianfuturetoday - Everyone else on this site knows you are conservative. Everyone else but you. Come out of the closet already. Don't you notice how TheSofaKing and QM fawns over your comments and posts. It's no coincidence. It's cool. Let your inner confederate flag fly.

http://videosift.com/video/Fight-of-the-Century-Keynes-vs-Hayek-Round-Two?loadcomm=1#comment-1194313

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
I don't want to have to surrender my superlib card, but I'm OK with bin Laden dead, sans trial. I'd be OK with a trial too, but that's not how it played out. Either way is fine, just so long as it's over. I won't be celebrating bin Laden's death, or making ghoulish comments about pictures of his bullet ridden corpse, but generally, I'm glad to have finished the final chapter in the decade long story of 9/11.

I celebrate the death of the 9/11 era. Good riddance to all of it.

@dystopianfuturetoday - Everyone else on this site knows you are conservative. Everyone else but you. Come out of the closet already. Don't you notice how TheSofaKing and QM fawns over your comments and posts. It's no coincidence. It's cool. Let your inner confederate flag fly.

http://videosift.com/video/Fight-of-the-Century-Keynes-vs-Hayek-Round-Two?loadcomm=1#comment-1194313

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
I don't want to have to surrender my superlib card, but I'm OK with bin Laden dead, sans trial. I'd be OK with a trial too, but that's not how it played out. Either way is fine, just so long as it's over. I won't be celebrating bin Laden's death, or making ghoulish comments about pictures of his bullet ridden corpse, but generally, I'm glad to have finished the final chapter in the decade long story of 9/11.

I celebrate the death of the 9/11 era. Good riddance to all of it.

I don't want to have to surrender my superlib card, but I'm OK with bin Laden dead, sans trial. I'd be OK with a trial too, but that's not how it played out. Either way is fine, just so long as it's over. I won't be celebrating bin Laden's death, or making ghoulish comments about pictures of his bullet ridden corpse, but generally, I'm glad to have finished the final chapter in the decade long story of 9/11.

I celebrate the death of the 9/11 era. Good riddance to all of it.

I am so glad I don't have to deal with this kind of traffic anymore. Good riddance.

>> ^undefined:

Tedbater's reaction, "Good riddance. The world is better off without your shrill whine."


Now if we could only get rid of the morons like Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly, and Limbaugh...

Tedbater's reaction, "Good riddance. The world is better off without your shrill whine."

Good riddance. Can't wait for Comcast to fire the whole lying lot at MSNBC! Bill O'Reilly wins again!

It's not in my nature to fault someone for being an ol' softy, so I can't begrudge your desire not to take a victory lap. I, however, will rejoice once I see the Hammer frog marched to the slammer. Thus always to the corrupt. He brought it all on himself, so good riddance. Besides, there's a line forming to fill his dirty shoes in Congress, so it was time for him to let the The Next Generation take his place. We don't need another fat Captain Kirk, do we?

In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
I agree with everything you said except the part about no sympathy. It's just how I'm wired. I have no sympathy for people who do something awful, escape justice, and then find some other hardship in life. But people who do wrong, and meet justice for their actions, I feel sympathy and pity for. I can't get happy about it -- I feel more sadness and some relief than elation.

I'm sure a 2 minute visit with him in prison would cure it, but still, I'm not big on doing a victory dance when justice is served.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
As far as crime and punishment is concerned I'm also a liberal:

- Our drug policy is an abomination, and mandatory minimum sentencing is outrageous. It's the main reason the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
- Three strikes laws should be eliminated
- The death penalty is barbaric
- Our criminal justice system is still racist. Black men and other persons of color are convicted at higher rates, and are more likely to be incarcerated and receive longer sentences than white dudes that commit the same crimes.

HOWEVER, I have NO sympathy for any type of public official who betrays the trust of the people he is supposed to serve. That goes not just for politicians, but judges, prosecutors, and cops too. One of surest ways to to bring about the downfall of a society is to have dirty public officials running the show. And I'm not partisan about this. If DeLay were a Democrat, independent, socialist, Green, or what have you, I'd feel the same way about him.

The only thing I don't want to happen to the guy is for him to get raped or otherwise harmed while he's in prison, but then I feel the same way about everyone in prison. Prison shouldn't automatically mean rape, beatings, and the possibility of homicide, but when you have prison overcrowding because of harsh sentencing laws, it's hard for guards to ensure the safety of all inmates. And let's not forgot that it's mostly Republicans like DeLay who have been the authors of all the tough-on-crime legislation in the first place.

So DeLay got what he deserved. Also Republicans like him (and many Democrats) have never served the interests of the people, but of their corporate masters. These corporate assholes in turn fucked up the economy through fraud and other criminal behavior. Many, many people have lost their jobs or their life savings or both because of this shit. They have created misery on an enormous scale. They are criminals as well who also deserve to go to prison. Madoff is just the tip of the iceberg. Thousands more need to be sent to the clink, because Madoff and other people like him didn't do this shit all by themselves.

Those are the people that Tom DeLay served. I hope he receives the maximum sentence. Not a drop from my bleeding heart will be shed for him.



In reply to this comment by NetRunner:
I did hear about that. I'm one of these seriously bleeding-heart liberal types. Now that he's going to jail, I feel sorry for him.

Still, it's good to see that parts of our justice system still work.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You might have seen this story already, but if not, then it should make your Thanksgiving happy.

I down-vote because I think you're a sock-puppet.
>> ^pavel_one:

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
I love it when tax cuts COST the American people important stuff like Twinkies.
Dis-Grayson? Good riddance to mad rubbish!
Downvote for the sake of downvoting? I'm sure you will.