The Asshat Thread

[lukethedrifter]

oh, that's good quality passive aggressiveness.

It really is, isn't it?

[Arthur Dent]

So, did the note succeed?

[lukethedrifter]

Not sure if she put it on the vehicle yet. The second car wasn't at home during most recent dog walks I'm aware of.

[GeddyWrox]

Here's a big fish of a racist robe-wearing asshat:

[SHOW]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

Scalia lit up social media and was denounced Thursday on the Senate floor for comments he made that seemed to scoff at the value of diversity at selective universities by sharply questioning whether African Americans might instead be helped by “having them go to a less-advanced school . . . a slower-track school where they do well.”

And Just learned about this recently

If ever there was a case that warranted the death penalty, Scalia argued, this was it.

How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection compared with that!

now this

The convictions of two mentally disabled half-brothers were vacated and the two men were ordered released by Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser in North Carolina on Tuesday. They were freed from prison Wednesday. Henry Lee McCollum, 50, had been on death row for 30 years, longer than anyone else in North Carolina history. He and Leon Brown, 46, who was serving a life sentence, were convicted for the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. DNA evidence implicated another man

It wasn't just Scalia that got in on the thinly-veiled racism party...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and host of last year's documentary series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” describes the alienation he felt as a black child who showed an interest in astrophysics.

“Teachers would say, ‘Don’t you want to be an athlete?’” he recalled in a video that went viral last year.

Scalia wasn't the only justice whose comments on the affirmative action case seemed off-key to some.

“What unique perspective does a minority student bring to a physics class?” wondered Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

Wayne, now a research fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Roberts' question could easily be interpreted as: How can white students benefit from having a black face in the classroom?

The remark was ironic to Sylvester James Gates Jr., a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written more than 200 scientific publications and is known for his work in supersymmetry, supergravity and superstring theory.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bla ... story.html

[pioneer98]

So it turns out it's ok to price gouge dying poor people on a drug they need to stay alive, but screw some rich people trying to profit from your scam? That's just wrong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015- ... ies-fraud/

[Freed Roger]

So it turns out it's ok to price gouge dying poor people on a drug they need to stay alive, but screw some rich people trying to profit from your scam? That's just wrong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015- ... ies-fraud/

Aah capitalism and it's positive societal results.

[Freed Roger]

Doing the Perp Walk

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2468546

[Jocephus]

screech is going to jail for stabbing a dude

[Joe Shlabotnik]

So it turns out it's ok to price gouge dying poor people on a drug they need to stay alive, but screw some rich people trying to profit from your scam? That's just wrong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015- ... ies-fraud/

My cynical take: the guy over reached and jeopardized the gravy train that is the American pharma industry. So it was decided to make an example out of him complete with perp walk with the hope that it will be enough to tamp down the calls for change.

[wart57]

So it turns out it's ok to price gouge dying poor people on a drug they need to stay alive, but screw some rich people trying to profit from your scam? That's just wrong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015- ... ies-fraud/

My cynical take: the guy over reached and jeopardized the gravy train that is the American pharma industry. So it was decided to make an example out of him complete with perp walk with the hope that it will be enough to tamp down the calls for change.

Sacrificial Lamb so the rest of the asshats can continue to get richer.