These conspiracy lovers amaze me. If everything they claimed was right, 90% of celebrity deaths would be homicides. Car crashes happen sometimes, and they suck.
3.
YellowJournalism
The title of this post alone depresses me…
4.
bill d
USA v. Honduras or watching Kobe get beat?
Decisions decisions.
5.
David Koch
@Ben Cisco: You knew obummer was goint to be blamed by the ObummerDerangmentSyndrome types.
6.
David Koch
@Spaghetti Lee: but it’s a proven fact, Bobby Kennedy murdered Jayne Mansfield after disappearing Jimmy Hoffa.
c’mon, If Obama was the evil badass that they claim he is, can someone explain to me how someone truly odious like Karl Rove or Roger Ailes is still walking amongst us?
Are there actual physically painted ads on the boards in hockey games, or are they all electronic?
I ask because in a game between Chicago and Boston I wouldn’t expect to see a Tim Horton’s ad on the hoardings.
12.
Eric U.
@piratedan: is anyone in the clown show that is today’s GOP really worth risking the life of a stunt car driver over? That’s why BHO hasn’t taken any of them out
@Eric U.: hell if I was an evil nefarious president, I’d have a much different list than GOP media types, they’re simply useful idiots and anyone actually paying attention knows this. Just asinine that anytime that anyone with a visible Conservative presence goes down it’s black helicopter and Tom Clancy machinations of power in play.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@MikeJ: There are actual painted ads on the boards (or were last time I went to a game), but they have been putting TV ads above the goalie nets in a few recent games I’ve seen. Stuff that blocks the view of the people in that seating section, so no way they’re painted on. I actually slowed down the replay once to make sure I wasn’t imagining it.
Ahh. I didn’t know that/ I thought they were purely Canadian.
20.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I don’t think there are any in the Chicago area. Weirdly, they are all over Columbus, Ohio.
21.
JPL
On the 9/11 I muted the TV to answer the phone. Barbara Olson’s picture was on the screen, and I mentioned to whoever I was talking to, that I couldn’t believe that bitch was opening her mouth. That is why I have problems saying why him and not him.
22.
Davis X. Machina
In Maine, Gov. 37% Paul ‘Landslide’ LePage vetoed a bi-partisan Medicaid expansion bill, because Obamacare!. Hard on the heels of his veto of a bill that directed the state to study issues related to long-term care insurance, including ways to prevent unfair discrimination based on gender. (Study, mind you, not actually prohibit the practice.) All of his vetoes on major bills so far have been upheld.
And today, following a request for the governor’s public events calendar, LePage’s press secretary Adrienne Bennett declined to provide the calendar, a public document, adding that the administration would no longer participate in stories reported by MaineToday Media. (The company owns three of the state’s five largest papers.)
@raven: I know you are doing the pre-colonoscopy bullshit. My DH is scheduled for one on Friday, he has been told he cannot eat as of tomorrow at 2pm, which I think is bullshit, being told you can’t eat for 3 days is fucking insane. What did your doctors tell you?
27.
Davis X. Machina
@Davis X. Machina: Oops. Meant for the open thread downstairs. Shouldn’t have BJ open in two tabs simultaneously….
28.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m pretty sure that a badger attack is more likely in your locale(actually particularly likely) than here in LA.
We do have Bruins that come down from the hills.
29.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That’s a real shame. Seems to me he was part of a handful of young reporters who were rebelling against the courtier pundits who couldn’t get past blowjobs and the excessive deference of the embeds of the post-9/11 Bush years
30.
Keith G
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, talk about going out in a ball of fire. Speeding car + tree = bad outcome.
Too bad. He was a good reporter and a real cutie.
31.
raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: I stopped eating last night at 6. I also did 3 days of low fiber. White bread, white rice, crackers, chicken breast and tuna. I am just about to down the last glass of the gallon of gavalite-c. The instructions from the doc are the same as on the container. Here’s the problem, if the MD has a procedure and your DH is not clean enough they could just stop and have to do it all over.
eta That’s not really 3 days, stop eating tomorrow, fast, do the prep and fire away Friday.
32.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: They can cross the state line; they just aren’t allowed at Disney Land.
33.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: This is not the case, I saw some of those badgers in Pasadena 14 years ago. Also saw some Bruins the same day. It is close to the mountains.
Was he a local? I could easily see an out-of-towner getting confused on that stretch of Highland, especially at 5 a.m.
For non-locals, as you cross Highland at Melrose, you’re suddenly in a residential area that has large islands in the middle of the street. That picture definitely looks like it’s south of Melrose in the residential area. Here’s a Google street view of the intersection if anyone’s curious.
ETA: Checked the story that Bill linked to and the accident was definitely south of Melrose.
35.
raven
And I just drank the last glass. It gets tough down the stretch but having lost a friend to cancer recently and having two others gong through treatment now, this ain’t shit.
@raven: I was asking because when my boss had it done he just had to do the laxatives and gatorade the night before, certainly not two days before. My DH has a two hour drive to work on Thursday, after he has taken all that crap to make him crap, I don’t know how he is going to get through two hours in the car to get to work without having an accident.
Tim Horton’s and Wendy’s merged in the mid-aughts, then divorced again a short while after that. Wendy’s was founded in Columbus. That probably explains it.
Ihear the sound of marching feet…
Down sunset boulevard to crescent heights …
and there…
at pandora’s box…
We are confronted with…
a vast Quantity of…
plastic people…
Take a day and walk around
Watch the nazi’s run your town
Then go home and check yourself You think we’re singing ’bout someone else
But you’re plastic people
Oh, baby, now You’re such a drag
It does explain the original infestation, but they kept multiplying after the divorce.
The multiplication after the divorce is easily explained by the eating habits of your average Central Ohioan.
We love our doughnuts. We will even do stupid things like use them as buns and stick meat in between.[*] And actually Tim Horton’s has some nice sandwiches with convenient drive-thru access at lunchtime for a nice alternative to a burger and fries when you have to grab something and go – Paneras have only just started to build drive-thrus onto their restaurants around here and most Subways don’t have them, so that gave Timmy Ho’s a leg up for a while.
[*] Note that the “we” here is the royal we. I personally am not a huge fan of doughnuts – I prefer not to have sweets for breakfast, or when I must a nice danish. But my fellow Columbusians love their doughnuts.
48.
JWL
I’m genuinely sorry to hear of his death. Hastings did himself proud, and the American people, too.
49.
rda909
Looking at this Hasting guy’s Twitter feed and wiki page, and I’m concerned now that there will be a shortage of irrational, Obama sux FOREVAH! “reporting” from privileged “liberal” white people now. His claim to fame was this General thing, which sounds like he was just being used a conduit for “Obama’s in over his head” storylines directly from a Republican-supporting General, who didn’t want to be there anymore anyway? Sort of a military gossip columnist? That’s investigative journalism now?
Seems he was friends with Jeremy Scahill though, who will be happy pick up the slack I’m sure, as evidenced by his Jay Leno appearance last week…
““On the other side of it, you know, you’ve got MSNBC — which is basically like one long episode of the E! True Hollywood Story of Barack Obama,” he quipped.”
Yes, suburban wonder Jeremy, Fox=MSNBC, Obama=Bush. Insightful and so, so very true, my friend. Better watch your back now though, Jeremy, since Barack Obama is clearly part of the same cabal as the Bush Family…I learned that in The Nation, which cannot be questioned.
50.
Gin & Tonic
@Litlebritdifrnt: If he’s having it done on Friday, the crapping should be Thursday night, not Thursday morning. There’s something wrong with that schedule you’ve got. If he starts with the laxatives Wednesday night or Thursday morning, and not eating, he’ll be too weak with hunger Thursday to go anywhere.
51.
Linnaeus
My old stomping grounds – metro Detroit – was one of the first places where Tim Horton’s expanded into the U.S. market. Now there’s 3 within 3 miles or so of the house where I grew up.
52.
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: Last time I had a Colonoscopy I took 16 horse pills.. 4 large pills every four hours the day before. Two days before I couldn’t eat meat and the day before was a liquid diet but it certainly did work. Next time I’m going to request the same regiment. The test is important. My ex had asked me for a divorce several months before he had his. We hadn’t worked out the details and when he had his, it was a fifty/fifty chance of survival. We stayed together through his treatment and now several years later he is fine. I really felt bad for him then, now I just think he is a giant asshole …
edit.. also, too.. he wanted to delay the divorce and then afterwards wanted to accuse me of taking advantage… like I said giant asshole… haha
53.
JKormac
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Jeepers – did he steal a car from the set of a B-grade action movie?
Because that’s a damn impressive fireball.
54.
maya
@raven: Yeah, I left a reply down #112 in lower thread. However you could get a colon prolapse chugging that shit. Just think of it as Red Mountain vin rose’. Good hunting tomorrow.
55.
Omnes Omnibus
@NonyNony: I actually know. I lived there for 15 years.
Yes, its a wonder of modern technology. They can plaster ads anywhere now, they have popped up behind the uprights for PAT or field goal tries, on the pitch at football games and who knows where else.
59.
maven
Obviously a car bomb.
60.
Felonius Monk
Sad about Michael Hastings — once again the good die young.
As for the Dooc — he’s no more significant than an ingrown hair on the ass of America. However, the human inhuman cyst, Rush Limbaugh, lives on and that just ain’t fair.
Limbaugh said something recently about abortion being at the root of America’s ills. He is correct!
The fact that Mother Limbaugh did not abort this pus-bag has caused all kinds of grief in America.
61.
the Conster
Steve Doocy AND that evil motherfucker Dick “dick” Cheney still live. WTF.
ETA: I’m going to go to my happy place now. GO BRUINS!!! BOSTON STRONG!!!!!
62.
karen
I went to Rolling Stone for one second, saw the conspiracy theories and left shaking my head. If Obama put a hit on someone I can think of a zillion people who would be better targets than this reporter. This is as bad as Snowden now claiming that he’s a target for assassination now.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s horrible that Hastings died, he’s young and there will definitely be a loss felt to journalism, especially since it’s nearly non-existent now. But he didn’t get into an accident because Obama cut his break lines.
@Jebediah: Did you see the two pictures? One last night/early this morning and one this morning after the sun came up? Your car doesn’t get messed up like that driving the speed limit.
There are different preps. When I had my last one I did not have to change much but then the evening before I took Dulcolax and started drinking Miralax. Other preps have you limit your diet a couple of days before. It is essentially whatever the GI doctor recommends.
His claim to fame was this General thing, which sounds like he was just being used a conduit for “Obama’s in over his head” storylines directly from a Republican-supporting General, who didn’t want to be there anymore anyway? Sort of a military gossip columnist? That’s investigative journalism now?
That’s just so fucking depressing. I’m going to be moving to Farmingdale next summer from Mass. and this makes me want to stick knitting needles in my eyes.
High rate of speed + sudden islands in the middle of the street + early morning is not a good combination.
ETA: Looking at the LA Weekly video, it looks like he was barely half a block from the intersection where it switches from 4 lanes to a divided street.
76.
maya
@raven: Probably right. I just didn’t care for the chaffing bit. That stuff comes out like sulfuric acid. Keep the Vaseline handy. Actually, I kinda like the test itself. They let you look at the TV screen so you can see that snake in progress. Fascinating, especially with slight sedation.
The VA (SFMC) I go to works it with two doctors. First time, two of them talked about golf the whole time but they knew what they were doing. Quick and painless. Second time an intern /w senior doctor assist. Intern was cute. Three women in the room and me. Should have been an erotic experience but somehow it just wasn’t. The intern didn’t know how to use all the snake’s functions correctly. It does require some proficiency. So, there were a few bumps and ouches, but she did OK. Always an experience to remember. Take a snapshot.
77.
GregB
Remember when the evil Clinton’s rubbed out Vince Foster and Ron Brown but left Matt Drudge, Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp to live on?
78.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
A journalist doesn’t go to work at 5 a.m., just saying.
ETA: That intersection is just fucked up. One side with islands in the middle and three other sides with standard issue city streets. yeesh.
79.
raven
@maya: Last time I was out, that’s what I’m interested in this time too. I had a cystoscopy a couple of years ago, not as bad as I heard but I’d prefer “sleepy time”.
80.
Poopyman
@Mnemosyne: He didn’t hit an island. He hit a sycamore at 620 N. Highland, comparing the pic at the NBC site and Google street view.
The circumstances of the crash were under investigation, but a cameraman at the scene said the vehicle, a Mercedes, was being driven at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred. The car’s engine ended up 200 feet away from the collision site, he said.
From the same NBC site.
ETA: Oh ho! Completely misread that pic. The car is sitting on the island. Me bad.
It’s that way on purpose — the three normal city streets are all businesses (Mario Batali has a couple of restaurants right on that corner) but the part with the islands is residential with very nice (and expensive) houses. The islands are supposed to slow traffic down because Highland is heavily used as a north/south corridor. Among other things, it’s really the only practical way to get from Burbank to Hollywood.
82.
Wayne t
Geesh, it was bad crash. Raw footage of the crash aftermath. The engine was knocked out a few hundred feet from Macy. Sad.
The sycamore is on the island — the island isn’t cement, it’s grassy with trees on it. The LA Weekly video gives a more comprehensive view (the top picture on the blog post is a screengrab, you have to scroll down for the video).
Also, if anyone ever wondered what an Orthodox Jewish man wears to run out of the house in the middle of the night when there’s an emergency, you have your answer in the video.
ETA: Basically, the tree he hit is in the middle of the street. If he was driving fast, in the dark, in an unfamiliar area, it probably seemed to come out of nowhere.
And RIP, Hastings. Yet, Wolf Blitzer hasn’t even had a papercut.
85.
Wayne t
The island has a cement curb all around. I’ve driven that stretch many times late at night ( after bars close) and crossed paths with massive speeders coming down highland not realizing the road spilt right there. At night it’s even trickier if you’re not used to it. The location is highly probable esp at 4 am. But it’s all perfect for a conspiracy theory as well. I just watched 3 Days of the Condor…
86.
Mnemosyne
G says that he read Hastings’ book and Hastings hinted a few times about having a drinking problem (especially on a trip to Dubai, where he drank for 5 days straight). So that could also have been a factor.
A terrible loss, and a brilliant if curtailed life. That his family and loved ones should go through this after the violent loss of his fiance some years ago must be especially awful.
Still, it’s worth looking at descriptions of the accident. From the LA Times:
Hastings was the victim of a single-car crash that occurred about 4:25 a.m. in the 600 block of North Highland Avenue
….
The vehicle crossed a median, struck a tree and burst into flames in the Hancock Park area, LAPD Officer Christopher No said. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
….
A witness described the accident to KTLA News: “I was just coming northbound on Highland and I seen a car, like, going really fast and all of a sudden I seen it jackknife,” Luis Cortez said. “I just seen parts fly everywhere, and I slammed on my brakes and stopped and tried to call 911.”
Given the apparent time of day and style of driving, something was going on. Maybe he was drunk, or suicidal, or paranoid (justified or not), or maybe he was just the biggest asshole driver on the roads. Traffic around here may be truly awful at times, but 4:15 AM isn’t about traffic, and isn’t even about driving off-peak to avoid traffic. It certainly sounds like he was – for whatever reason – driving in a manner likely to kill someone, and in a small mercy only killed himself.
90.
maya
@raven: Whatever you feel comfortable with. The important thing is to get it done. Always amazed at a few big guys I know who just will not have one done. Scared shitless or the embarrassment of it. Stupid.
@efgoldman: Nope. As Jim Clapper is my witness, that really was the way it happened. No, really.
“Hastings was originally meant to have controlled contact, which expanded when he had to catch a bus to Berlin with the general and his entourage after international flights were grounded, because of the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which gave him sufficient time to pick up less discreet remarks” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#Stanley_McChrystal_interview
A General and some people working for him were whining about the uppity dark-hued guy and his administration (as if the Bush Administration people were fantastic!), while they were all unexpectedly on a bus together and getting drunk. Hastings records their comments while everyone is on off-time, and puts those into an article. That’s fine, but don’t really see how that’s some great bit of investigative journalism.
And I have some vague memory of this time, and I remember a lot of stories taking the tack of the grizzled General says this new President is “in over his head,” and this article was the basis for that feeding frenzy (naturally ignoring all the Generals who liked President Obama’s leadership), sort of like this one…
“Michael Hastings: McChrystal Was ‘Complex,’ [and “great”] Obama Was Naive, Afghanistan Is Hopeless” http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/michael-hastings/
Of course, President Obama inherited about 140,000 troops in Iraq and 10s of thousands in Afghan, and in 3-4 years there are almost zero in Iraq, and soon to be that in Afghanistan, all while protecting against the Republican/Media attempts to portray himself and Democrats as “weak on terror.” Thank god for President Obama…of course, I’m just a simpleton Obot though…
95.
raven
@efgoldman: I’m worried this will make the whole thing useless. I guess it would do any good to call he hospital.
EXACTLY! – Did Rather (+3) ever explain that? what an odd duck
It turned out that it was a completely true story that happened exactly as Rather told it, believe it or not. They had mistaken Rather for someone else (named Kenneth, obviously).
98.
Ted & Hellen
Rubbed out by the MIC.
Nothing to see here.
Perhaps fear of death is the real reason military nut lickers/reporters like Laura Logan toady to the generals the way they do.
And I adore all the authoritarians here shushing everyone about how ridiculous, ridiculous I say!, it is to consider this young man was taken out. Just completely out of the realm of possibility, I say!
99.
rda909
@Wayne t: Maybe Larry Johnson had given Hastings the Michelle Obama “Whitey” tape, so Obomber had him and the tape burnt up right quick!
100.
maya
@raven: You just threw up the stuff? That’s not normal. Call the hospital. They could have you take a fleet enema just before the test there.
WTF! that is the WILDEST story ever. And the guy killed a stagehand. Rather (+3) was lucky he escaped.
105.
noodler
Mike was a good friend of mine. He had so much more to give. He was a tireless and fearless reporter, and a great person all around. he had so much more to give to this world. And like reporters of old, damn, could he drink.
106.
Jebediah
@Phil Perspective:
No, I saw some footage of the burning car on the news. The car was completely engulfed in flames, but what I could see through the flames looked pretty severe. I think speed limit there is 35, so I would say yeah, definitely over the speed limit.
Seems to me he was part of a handful of young reporters who were rebelling against the courtier pundits who couldn’t get past blowjobs and the excessive deference of the embeds of the post-9/11 Bush years
Did you see the two pictures? One last night/early this morning and one this morning after the sun came up? Your car doesn’t get messed up like that driving the speed limit.
Nothing to see here, comrade. It is unpossible in this best of all possible worlds that the MIC, which really now, only wants what’s best for each and every one of us., would take a pesky reporter out; more to silence any who might be thinking of emulating him that to seek revenge.
@Ted & Hellen: Yes Timmeh. We all know you know DA TROOF!! Timmeh. It won’t matter if in fact alcohol was the primary factor, it won’t chage your TROOF!! Timmeh.
“Do you think you could stop and THINK for a second before answering a question?”
G says that he read Hastings’ book and Hastings hinted a few times about having a drinking problem (especially on a trip to Dubai, where he drank for 5 days straight). So that could also have been a factor.
You don’t care about DA TROOF, whatever it may be.
116.
Yatsuno
@Ted & Hellen: Yes Timmeh. We KNOW Timmeh. Only you have the certitude and clarity to see all the conspiracies and evils of the world. You just lower yourself in an attempt to enlighten us, but we shun your scared TROOFS!!
Please clarify who “WE” is and why you always need to present yourself as part of a larger clique of some sort.
It’s funny you mention that – I posted the other day about how when some posters here switch to attack mode they often feel the need to use “we” instead of “I” in their insults. It’s as though they’re not quite brave enough to sling shit on their own. Even on a blog they still need to invoke the security of the tribe.
It’s often coupled with a term of friendly condescension like “kid” or “honey”, as in “Listen honey, we know that you….”. These folks must think they’re so slick, not realizing that their meta posts are adverts for their assholeishness.
So on the one hand you deny that you said that Obama is behind this then in the next breath say he’s behind all the conspiracies in the world and we’re stupid for not believing you.
I’m fascinated that you ignored all of the factual information I posted — including photos showing how dangerous that intersection is — to focus on one thing that other people also said.
Tell us, Timmy, why do you think he was driving at high speed at 4:15 a.m.? Late to the airport? Trying to save kittens?
Oh, come on, Timmy, I’m playing your game. You think there’s no possible way that someone driving at high speed through city streets at 4:00 a.m. could have been drinking, so why don’t you tell me what you think he was really doing?
141.
Shortstop
@Mnemosyne: Hastings was completely open and matter-of-fact in a number of situations and contexts about being an alcoholic and addict in recovery.
And, as the pictures show, it’s exactly the kind of intersection where an impaired (or just speeding) driver can get him/herself into a whole lot of trouble, because they’re not expecting a wide street to suddenly have an island in the middle of it as soon as they cross. That exact intersection has caught me off-guard a few times when traveling at normal speed in the middle of the day.
In threads where Timmeh’s initial comment is ignored, he tends to disappear.
145.
Kris Collins
Good god, the crap you people fixate on here, navel-gazing doesn’t even begin to describe it. The only thing that really matters is that a very young and talented journalist who had so much more to offer the world is dead because of a really stupid, preventable car crash. It’s sad, sickening, and depressing. As for the rest of the shit, get over yourselves.
Ben Cisco
And in less than 10 comments, TWO musings as to whether he was assassinated (or “Silkwooded”).
Jeebus wept.
Hastings deserved better.
Spaghetti Lee
@Ben Cisco:
These conspiracy lovers amaze me. If everything they claimed was right, 90% of celebrity deaths would be homicides. Car crashes happen sometimes, and they suck.
YellowJournalism
The title of this post alone depresses me…
bill d
USA v. Honduras or watching Kobe get beat?
Decisions decisions.
David Koch
@Ben Cisco: You knew obummer was goint to be blamed by the ObummerDerangmentSyndrome types.
David Koch
@Spaghetti Lee: but it’s a proven fact, Bobby Kennedy murdered Jayne Mansfield after disappearing Jimmy Hoffa.
Poopyman
Because there are never traffic fatalities in LA.
Litlebritdifrnt
raven need to ask you a question, please respond if you are online.
piratedan
c’mon, If Obama was the evil badass that they claim he is, can someone explain to me how someone truly odious like Karl Rove or Roger Ailes is still walking amongst us?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Spaghetti Lee: @David Koch: If only I had invested in tin foil futures…
MikeJ
Are there actual physically painted ads on the boards in hockey games, or are they all electronic?
I ask because in a game between Chicago and Boston I wouldn’t expect to see a Tim Horton’s ad on the hoardings.
Eric U.
@piratedan: is anyone in the clown show that is today’s GOP really worth risking the life of a stunt car driver over? That’s why BHO hasn’t taken any of them out
BillinGlendaleCA
Looks like it was a pretty firey crash.
Crash story from NBC in LA.
piratedan
@Eric U.: hell if I was an evil nefarious president, I’d have a much different list than GOP media types, they’re simply useful idiots and anyone actually paying attention knows this. Just asinine that anytime that anyone with a visible Conservative presence goes down it’s black helicopter and Tom Clancy machinations of power in play.
Infamous Heel-Filcher
Goddammit.
I see bourbon in both my and Ms. Heel-filcher’s near future.
piratedan
@efgoldman: LOL, you’d think that they could find some china to melt down at a yard sale :-)
raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: yes’m
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@MikeJ: There are actual painted ads on the boards (or were last time I went to a game), but they have been putting TV ads above the goalie nets in a few recent games I’ve seen. Stuff that blocks the view of the people in that seating section, so no way they’re painted on. I actually slowed down the replay once to make sure I wasn’t imagining it.
MikeJ
@efgoldman:
Ahh. I didn’t know that/ I thought they were purely Canadian.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I don’t think there are any in the Chicago area. Weirdly, they are all over Columbus, Ohio.
JPL
On the 9/11 I muted the TV to answer the phone. Barbara Olson’s picture was on the screen, and I mentioned to whoever I was talking to, that I couldn’t believe that bitch was opening her mouth. That is why I have problems saying why him and not him.
Davis X. Machina
In Maine, Gov. 37% Paul ‘Landslide’ LePage vetoed a bi-partisan Medicaid expansion bill, because Obamacare!. Hard on the heels of his veto of a bill that directed the state to study issues related to long-term care insurance, including ways to prevent unfair discrimination based on gender. (Study, mind you, not actually prohibit the practice.) All of his vetoes on major bills so far have been upheld.
And today, following a request for the governor’s public events calendar, LePage’s press secretary Adrienne Bennett declined to provide the calendar, a public document, adding that the administration would no longer participate in stories reported by MaineToday Media. (The company owns three of the state’s five largest papers.)
I used to think that this asshat couldn’t possibly win re-election, but with the entry into the field for 2014 of the only New England member of the House Blue Dog caucus, and an Independent-who-used-to-be-a-Democrat-but-his-party-left-him, the same split voting that put him into the Blaine House will probably send him back there.
maya
@Eric U.: Gas leaks can happen anywhere. Cell phones have been known to blow up. Did you know that the bathroom is the most unsafe place in the house?
raven
@maya: Not when you re doing what I am!
Omnes Omnibus
@maya: I think attacks by squads of highly trained ninja badgers would fly beneath the radar, but then I had a long day at work.
Litlebritdifrnt
@raven: I know you are doing the pre-colonoscopy bullshit. My DH is scheduled for one on Friday, he has been told he cannot eat as of tomorrow at 2pm, which I think is bullshit, being told you can’t eat for 3 days is fucking insane. What did your doctors tell you?
Davis X. Machina
@Davis X. Machina: Oops. Meant for the open thread downstairs. Shouldn’t have BJ open in two tabs simultaneously….
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m pretty sure that a badger attack is more likely in your locale(actually particularly likely) than here in LA.
We do have Bruins that come down from the hills.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That’s a real shame. Seems to me he was part of a handful of young reporters who were rebelling against the courtier pundits who couldn’t get past blowjobs and the excessive deference of the embeds of the post-9/11 Bush years
Keith G
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, talk about going out in a ball of fire. Speeding car + tree = bad outcome.
Too bad. He was a good reporter and a real cutie.
raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: I stopped eating last night at 6. I also did 3 days of low fiber. White bread, white rice, crackers, chicken breast and tuna. I am just about to down the last glass of the gallon of gavalite-c. The instructions from the doc are the same as on the container. Here’s the problem, if the MD has a procedure and your DH is not clean enough they could just stop and have to do it all over.
eta That’s not really 3 days, stop eating tomorrow, fast, do the prep and fire away Friday.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: They can cross the state line; they just aren’t allowed at Disney Land.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: This is not the case, I saw some of those badgers in Pasadena 14 years ago. Also saw some Bruins the same day. It is close to the mountains.
Mnemosyne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Was he a local? I could easily see an out-of-towner getting confused on that stretch of Highland, especially at 5 a.m.
For non-locals, as you cross Highland at Melrose, you’re suddenly in a residential area that has large islands in the middle of the street. That picture definitely looks like it’s south of Melrose in the residential area. Here’s a Google street view of the intersection if anyone’s curious.
ETA: Checked the story that Bill linked to and the accident was definitely south of Melrose.
raven
And I just drank the last glass. It gets tough down the stretch but having lost a friend to cancer recently and having two others gong through treatment now, this ain’t shit.
Litlebritdifrnt
@raven: I was asking because when my boss had it done he just had to do the laxatives and gatorade the night before, certainly not two days before. My DH has a two hour drive to work on Thursday, after he has taken all that crap to make him crap, I don’t know how he is going to get through two hours in the car to get to work without having an accident.
Quicksand
@Omnes Omnibus:
Tim Horton’s and Wendy’s merged in the mid-aughts, then divorced again a short while after that. Wendy’s was founded in Columbus. That probably explains it.
raven
@Mnemosyne:
Ihear the sound of marching feet…
Down sunset boulevard to crescent heights …
and there…
at pandora’s box…
We are confronted with…
a vast Quantity of…
plastic people…
Take a day and walk around
Watch the nazi’s run your town
Then go home and check yourself You think we’re singing ’bout someone else
But you’re plastic people
Oh, baby, now You’re such a drag
raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: Um. I would say no way.
Omnes Omnibus
@Quicksand: It does explain the original infestation, but they kept multiplying after the divorce. I did like their breakfast sandwiches though.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
Uh … okay.
Keith G
@Mnemosyne: It’s a Zappa thang.
raven
Plastic People
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: You don’t see the ninja badgers. They are skilled in disguise and deception.
Jebediah
@Mnemosyne:
Yup. Had to detour around it on the way to work this morning.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: I don’t know, they mauled the Bruins pretty bad.
@Omnes Omnibus:I met some and they seemed pretty friendly.
NonyNony
@Omnes Omnibus:
The multiplication after the divorce is easily explained by the eating habits of your average Central Ohioan.
We love our doughnuts. We will even do stupid things like use them as buns and stick meat in between.[*] And actually Tim Horton’s has some nice sandwiches with convenient drive-thru access at lunchtime for a nice alternative to a burger and fries when you have to grab something and go – Paneras have only just started to build drive-thrus onto their restaurants around here and most Subways don’t have them, so that gave Timmy Ho’s a leg up for a while.
[*] Note that the “we” here is the royal we. I personally am not a huge fan of doughnuts – I prefer not to have sweets for breakfast, or when I must a nice danish. But my fellow Columbusians love their doughnuts.
JWL
I’m genuinely sorry to hear of his death. Hastings did himself proud, and the American people, too.
rda909
Looking at this Hasting guy’s Twitter feed and wiki page, and I’m concerned now that there will be a shortage of irrational, Obama sux FOREVAH! “reporting” from privileged “liberal” white people now. His claim to fame was this General thing, which sounds like he was just being used a conduit for “Obama’s in over his head” storylines directly from a Republican-supporting General, who didn’t want to be there anymore anyway? Sort of a military gossip columnist? That’s investigative journalism now?
Seems he was friends with Jeremy Scahill though, who will be happy pick up the slack I’m sure, as evidenced by his Jay Leno appearance last week…
““On the other side of it, you know, you’ve got MSNBC — which is basically like one long episode of the E! True Hollywood Story of Barack Obama,” he quipped.”
Yes, suburban wonder Jeremy, Fox=MSNBC, Obama=Bush. Insightful and so, so very true, my friend. Better watch your back now though, Jeremy, since Barack Obama is clearly part of the same cabal as the Bush Family…I learned that in The Nation, which cannot be questioned.
Gin & Tonic
@Litlebritdifrnt: If he’s having it done on Friday, the crapping should be Thursday night, not Thursday morning. There’s something wrong with that schedule you’ve got. If he starts with the laxatives Wednesday night or Thursday morning, and not eating, he’ll be too weak with hunger Thursday to go anywhere.
Linnaeus
My old stomping grounds – metro Detroit – was one of the first places where Tim Horton’s expanded into the U.S. market. Now there’s 3 within 3 miles or so of the house where I grew up.
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: Last time I had a Colonoscopy I took 16 horse pills.. 4 large pills every four hours the day before. Two days before I couldn’t eat meat and the day before was a liquid diet but it certainly did work. Next time I’m going to request the same regiment. The test is important. My ex had asked me for a divorce several months before he had his. We hadn’t worked out the details and when he had his, it was a fifty/fifty chance of survival. We stayed together through his treatment and now several years later he is fine. I really felt bad for him then, now I just think he is a giant asshole …
edit.. also, too.. he wanted to delay the divorce and then afterwards wanted to accuse me of taking advantage… like I said giant asshole… haha
JKormac
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Jeepers – did he steal a car from the set of a B-grade action movie?
Because that’s a damn impressive fireball.
maya
@raven: Yeah, I left a reply down #112 in lower thread. However you could get a colon prolapse chugging that shit. Just think of it as Red Mountain vin rose’. Good hunting tomorrow.
Omnes Omnibus
@NonyNony: I actually know. I lived there for 15 years.
Yatsuno
@JPL:
What you have accomplished has been witnessed.
amk
Add to that limbaugh, klannity, tundra twit and other such hate dispensers. And people still believe in god.
Schlemizel
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS):
Yes, its a wonder of modern technology. They can plaster ads anywhere now, they have popped up behind the uprights for PAT or field goal tries, on the pitch at football games and who knows where else.
maven
Obviously a car bomb.
Felonius Monk
Sad about Michael Hastings — once again the good die young.
As for the Dooc — he’s no more significant than an ingrown hair on the ass of America. However, the
humaninhuman cyst, Rush Limbaugh, lives on and that just ain’t fair.Limbaugh said something recently about abortion being at the root of America’s ills. He is correct!
The fact that Mother Limbaugh did not abort this pus-bag has caused all kinds of grief in America.
the Conster
Steve Doocy AND that evil motherfucker Dick “dick” Cheney still live. WTF.
ETA: I’m going to go to my happy place now. GO BRUINS!!! BOSTON STRONG!!!!!
karen
I went to Rolling Stone for one second, saw the conspiracy theories and left shaking my head. If Obama put a hit on someone I can think of a zillion people who would be better targets than this reporter. This is as bad as Snowden now claiming that he’s a target for assassination now.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s horrible that Hastings died, he’s young and there will definitely be a loss felt to journalism, especially since it’s nearly non-existent now. But he didn’t get into an accident because Obama cut his break lines.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Gin & Tonic: Exactly, I cannot understand why they would have him on the “no food” thing from 2pm Wednesday, I mean come on that is excessive.
JPL
@Yatsuno: It took years before I realized that I don’t give a crap.
edit.. the test is important. I might had a few more bucks had he waited but that’s not important…btw..
raven
@maya: I’m done drinking it but I only have moderate quickstep so far. Maybe the low fiber diet over the last few days helped.
JPL
@raven: haha… not gonna happen. You haven’t seen nothing yet…
Phil Perspective
@Jebediah: Did you see the two pictures? One last night/early this morning and one this morning after the sun came up? Your car doesn’t get messed up like that driving the speed limit.
JCJ
@Litlebritdifrnt:
There are different preps. When I had my last one I did not have to change much but then the evening before I took Dulcolax and started drinking Miralax. Other preps have you limit your diet a couple of days before. It is essentially whatever the GI doctor recommends.
karen
@Litlebritdifrnt:
@ Raven
Just one word about the Golytely…it’s NOT. And if it’s cold it’s a little less disgusting.
Keith G
@rda909:
How about fleshing this out a bit.
Phil Perspective
And .. LA Weekly now has video of the aftermath .. :-(
Yatsuno
@Phil Perspective: So there may be evidence he was speeding.
the Conster
@Davis X. Machina:
That’s just so fucking depressing. I’m going to be moving to Farmingdale next summer from Mass. and this makes me want to stick knitting needles in my eyes.
raven
@karen: It’s DONE!
Mnemosyne
@Phil Perspective:
High rate of speed + sudden islands in the middle of the street + early morning is not a good combination.
ETA: Looking at the LA Weekly video, it looks like he was barely half a block from the intersection where it switches from 4 lanes to a divided street.
maya
@raven: Probably right. I just didn’t care for the chaffing bit. That stuff comes out like sulfuric acid. Keep the Vaseline handy. Actually, I kinda like the test itself. They let you look at the TV screen so you can see that snake in progress. Fascinating, especially with slight sedation.
The VA (SFMC) I go to works it with two doctors. First time, two of them talked about golf the whole time but they knew what they were doing. Quick and painless. Second time an intern /w senior doctor assist. Intern was cute. Three women in the room and me. Should have been an erotic experience but somehow it just wasn’t. The intern didn’t know how to use all the snake’s functions correctly. It does require some proficiency. So, there were a few bumps and ouches, but she did OK. Always an experience to remember. Take a snapshot.
GregB
Remember when the evil Clinton’s rubbed out Vince Foster and Ron Brown but left Matt Drudge, Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp to live on?
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
A journalist doesn’t go to work at 5 a.m., just saying.
ETA: That intersection is just fucked up. One side with islands in the middle and three other sides with standard issue city streets. yeesh.
raven
@maya: Last time I was out, that’s what I’m interested in this time too. I had a cystoscopy a couple of years ago, not as bad as I heard but I’d prefer “sleepy time”.
Poopyman
@Mnemosyne: He didn’t hit an island. He hit a sycamore at 620 N. Highland, comparing the pic at the NBC site and Google street view.
@Yatsuno:
From the same NBC site.
ETA: Oh ho! Completely misread that pic. The car is sitting on the island. Me bad.
Mnemosyne
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS):
It’s that way on purpose — the three normal city streets are all businesses (Mario Batali has a couple of restaurants right on that corner) but the part with the islands is residential with very nice (and expensive) houses. The islands are supposed to slow traffic down because Highland is heavily used as a north/south corridor. Among other things, it’s really the only practical way to get from Burbank to Hollywood.
Wayne t
Geesh, it was bad crash. Raw footage of the crash aftermath. The engine was knocked out a few hundred feet from Macy. Sad.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3LSY3wVuASg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3LSY3wVuASg%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
Mnemosyne
@Poopyman:
The sycamore is on the island — the island isn’t cement, it’s grassy with trees on it. The LA Weekly video gives a more comprehensive view (the top picture on the blog post is a screengrab, you have to scroll down for the video).
Also, if anyone ever wondered what an Orthodox Jewish man wears to run out of the house in the middle of the night when there’s an emergency, you have your answer in the video.
ETA: Basically, the tree he hit is in the middle of the street. If he was driving fast, in the dark, in an unfamiliar area, it probably seemed to come out of nowhere.
ruemara
@Litlebritdifrnt: Time off, tell him to take some.
And RIP, Hastings. Yet, Wolf Blitzer hasn’t even had a papercut.
Wayne t
The island has a cement curb all around. I’ve driven that stretch many times late at night ( after bars close) and crossed paths with massive speeders coming down highland not realizing the road spilt right there. At night it’s even trickier if you’re not used to it. The location is highly probable esp at 4 am. But it’s all perfect for a conspiracy theory as well. I just watched 3 Days of the Condor…
Mnemosyne
G says that he read Hastings’ book and Hastings hinted a few times about having a drinking problem (especially on a trip to Dubai, where he drank for 5 days straight). So that could also have been a factor.
raven
Wow, I just threw my guts up.
David Koch
@Wayne t: What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Warren Terra
A terrible loss, and a brilliant if curtailed life. That his family and loved ones should go through this after the violent loss of his fiance some years ago must be especially awful.
Still, it’s worth looking at descriptions of the accident. From the LA Times:
Given the apparent time of day and style of driving, something was going on. Maybe he was drunk, or suicidal, or paranoid (justified or not), or maybe he was just the biggest asshole driver on the roads. Traffic around here may be truly awful at times, but 4:15 AM isn’t about traffic, and isn’t even about driving off-peak to avoid traffic. It certainly sounds like he was – for whatever reason – driving in a manner likely to kill someone, and in a small mercy only killed himself.
maya
@raven: Whatever you feel comfortable with. The important thing is to get it done. Always amazed at a few big guys I know who just will not have one done. Scared shitless or the embarrassment of it. Stupid.
@efgoldman: Nope. As Jim Clapper is my witness, that really was the way it happened. No, really.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
Fun! I guess your body got tired of sending everything through the other end.
JPL
@Warren Terra: Some people just speed without thinking about the consequences. It’s sad and especially for his family.
maya
@raven: Huh?
rda909
@Keith G:
“Hastings was originally meant to have controlled contact, which expanded when he had to catch a bus to Berlin with the general and his entourage after international flights were grounded, because of the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, which gave him sufficient time to pick up less discreet remarks”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#Stanley_McChrystal_interview
A General and some people working for him were whining about the uppity dark-hued guy and his administration (as if the Bush Administration people were fantastic!), while they were all unexpectedly on a bus together and getting drunk. Hastings records their comments while everyone is on off-time, and puts those into an article. That’s fine, but don’t really see how that’s some great bit of investigative journalism.
And I have some vague memory of this time, and I remember a lot of stories taking the tack of the grizzled General says this new President is “in over his head,” and this article was the basis for that feeding frenzy (naturally ignoring all the Generals who liked President Obama’s leadership), sort of like this one…
“Michael Hastings: McChrystal Was ‘Complex,’ [and “great”] Obama Was Naive, Afghanistan Is Hopeless”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/michael-hastings/
Of course, President Obama inherited about 140,000 troops in Iraq and 10s of thousands in Afghan, and in 3-4 years there are almost zero in Iraq, and soon to be that in Afghanistan, all while protecting against the Republican/Media attempts to portray himself and Democrats as “weak on terror.” Thank god for President Obama…of course, I’m just a simpleton Obot though…
raven
@efgoldman: I’m worried this will make the whole thing useless. I guess it would do any good to call he hospital.
WaynersT
@David Koch:
EXACTLY! – Did Rather (+3) ever explain that? what an odd duck
Hastings was 33 – jeez. So sad. I wonder if they can still do a toxicology test on a body that badly burned.
Mnemosyne
@WaynersT:
It turned out that it was a completely true story that happened exactly as Rather told it, believe it or not. They had mistaken Rather for someone else (named Kenneth, obviously).
Ted & Hellen
Rubbed out by the MIC.
Nothing to see here.
Perhaps fear of death is the real reason military nut lickers/reporters like Laura Logan toady to the generals the way they do.
And I adore all the authoritarians here shushing everyone about how ridiculous, ridiculous I say!, it is to consider this young man was taken out. Just completely out of the realm of possibility, I say!
rda909
@Wayne t: Maybe Larry Johnson had given Hastings the Michelle Obama “Whitey” tape, so Obomber had him and the tape burnt up right quick!
maya
@raven: You just threw up the stuff? That’s not normal. Call the hospital. They could have you take a fleet enema just before the test there.
edit” What efgoldman said. Call your GI doc.
Ted & Hellen
@piratedan:
Same club. Your innocent act is unconvincing.
amk
@rda909: Uncle ted above ya will lap it up.
JPL
@raven: Call the office and let us know. It’s not useless…
WaynersT
@Mnemosyne:
WTF! that is the WILDEST story ever. And the guy killed a stagehand. Rather (+3) was lucky he escaped.
noodler
Mike was a good friend of mine. He had so much more to give. He was a tireless and fearless reporter, and a great person all around. he had so much more to give to this world. And like reporters of old, damn, could he drink.
Jebediah
@Phil Perspective:
No, I saw some footage of the burning car on the news. The car was completely engulfed in flames, but what I could see through the flames looked pretty severe. I think speed limit there is 35, so I would say yeah, definitely over the speed limit.
Ted & Hellen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Um…why do you think he was killed?
raven
@maya: k
Ted & Hellen
@karen:
So you really think Obama calls the shots at the top?
WaynersT
@rda909:
ha, almost forgot about that guy. He was former CIA, too – jeez.
I wonder if he ever hired Triads to carryout assassinations.
Ted & Hellen
@Phil Perspective:
Nothing to see here, comrade. It is unpossible in this best of all possible worlds that the MIC, which really now, only wants what’s best for each and every one of us., would take a pesky reporter out; more to silence any who might be thinking of emulating him that to seek revenge.
I’m guessing a statement has been made.
raven
@JPL: Someone on call is sposed to call me.
Yatsuno
@Ted & Hellen: Yes Timmeh. We all know you know DA TROOF!! Timmeh. It won’t matter if in fact alcohol was the primary factor, it won’t chage your TROOF!! Timmeh.
“Do you think you could stop and THINK for a second before answering a question?”
Ted & Hellen
@Mnemosyne:
My god, you are a shameless and disgusting pig.
Ted & Hellen
@Yatsuno:
You don’t care about DA TROOF, whatever it may be.
Yatsuno
@Ted & Hellen: Yes Timmeh. We KNOW Timmeh. Only you have the certitude and clarity to see all the conspiracies and evils of the world. You just lower yourself in an attempt to enlighten us, but we shun your scared TROOFS!!
Ted & Hellen
@Yatsuno:
Two things: Please clarify who “WE” is and why you always need to present yourself as part of a larger clique of some sort.
It’s your type that is “scared.” Your fear won’t allow you to even consider that there are conspiracies and there is evil in the world.
So you comfort yourself by mocking anyone who questions the latest narrative of innocence.
Fuck you, worm.
amk
@Ted & Hellen: temper tantrums, timmeh?
You would lick a toilet bowl if it says omg, obama CT here !!!
Ted & Hellen
@amk:
“CT?”
Please clarify your stupidity.
Also too, please point out where I said Obama would be the one behind this type of rub out.
Thanks, bint.
JPL
@raven: Did you mention that there were several of us waiting for the phone call?
Ted & Hellen
The engine of the car flies sixty yards through the air from the scene of the “crash?” Really?
Mandalay
@Ted & Hellen:
It’s funny you mention that – I posted the other day about how when some posters here switch to attack mode they often feel the need to use “we” instead of “I” in their insults. It’s as though they’re not quite brave enough to sling shit on their own. Even on a blog they still need to invoke the security of the tribe.
It’s often coupled with a term of friendly condescension like “kid” or “honey”, as in “Listen honey, we know that you….”. These folks must think they’re so slick, not realizing that their meta posts are adverts for their assholeishness.
Ted & Hellen
@Mandalay:
Bingo.
Shortstop
Anger management issues, dry drunks, hamhanded trolling, conspiracy theories and obsessions with GI tract function. Tuesday night at BJ!
Shortstop
Wait, is this Wednesday? I should have put early-onset dementia on that list.
raven
@JPL: Back from the pharmacy, the on call doc said Magnesium Citrate so that’s what I did.
Jay
@rda909: DougJ, you’re trolling HARD tonight, bruh.
karen
@Ted & Hellen:
If you bothered to read the whole post you’d see that I was referencing the Rolling Stone comment conspiracy theory. But do go ahead, troll away.
Ted & Hellen
@karen:
Does calling me a troll serve as YOUR means of feeling a part of the Botsplainers Kool Kids club, or are you just stupid?
mai naem
His RS piece on Bowe Bergdahl is a really good piece. The Taliban’s had Bergdahl for about four years now. Ridiculous.
karen
@Ted & Hellen:
So on the one hand you deny that you said that Obama is behind this then in the next breath say he’s behind all the conspiracies in the world and we’re stupid for not believing you.
Make up your minds!
karen
@Ted & Hellen:
You’re the one who didn’t read my post. You just fixate on the word Obama and bingo, you see nothing else.
Don’t you have an Alex Jones show to listen to?
Ted & Hellen
@karen:
Please quote where I said Obama is behind all the conspiracies in the world. Or this one. What the fuck are you babbling about?
Who’s “WE?”
Idiot.
Ted & Hellen
@karen:
But my gently retarded one, I did not say that Obama was behind this, did I? Christ, find a brain cell.
Is this Plegmnospleen’s sock puppet?
But whatever…troll away!
Mnemosyne
@Ted & Hellen:
I’m fascinated that you ignored all of the factual information I posted — including photos showing how dangerous that intersection is — to focus on one thing that other people also said.
Tell us, Timmy, why do you think he was driving at high speed at 4:15 a.m.? Late to the airport? Trying to save kittens?
Ted & Hellen
@Mnemosyne:
Who’s “US,” bint?
Can’t you speak for your own lying dishonest, trolling self?
BruinKid
I was actually on Melrose earlier today, with no idea that he was killed on that road just a few blocks away from where I was.
So sad.
Mnemosyne
@Ted & Hellen:
Weird, I thought there were other people posting in this thread. But, if it makes you happy to pretend you’re the only one here:
Why don’t you tell ME your theory about why Hastings was driving through L.A. at high speed at 4:00 am?
Ted & Hellen
Nothing you post, including your pretend questions, has any credibility whatsoever.
Piss off.
Mnemosyne
@Ted & Hellen:
Oh, come on, Timmy, I’m playing your game. You think there’s no possible way that someone driving at high speed through city streets at 4:00 a.m. could have been drinking, so why don’t you tell me what you think he was really doing?
Shortstop
@Mnemosyne: Hastings was completely open and matter-of-fact in a number of situations and contexts about being an alcoholic and addict in recovery.
Mnemosyne
@Shortstop:
And, as the pictures show, it’s exactly the kind of intersection where an impaired (or just speeding) driver can get him/herself into a whole lot of trouble, because they’re not expecting a wide street to suddenly have an island in the middle of it as soon as they cross. That exact intersection has caught me off-guard a few times when traveling at normal speed in the middle of the day.
Yatsuno
@Mnemosyne: Running from Obummer’s thugs, obvs.
The prophet Nostradumbass
In threads where Timmeh’s initial comment is ignored, he tends to disappear.
Kris Collins
Good god, the crap you people fixate on here, navel-gazing doesn’t even begin to describe it. The only thing that really matters is that a very young and talented journalist who had so much more to offer the world is dead because of a really stupid, preventable car crash. It’s sad, sickening, and depressing. As for the rest of the shit, get over yourselves.
notorious JRT
@Spaghetti Lee:
Just ask the family, friends, and fans of David Halberstam.
RIP Michael Hastings
Kris Collins
@notorious JRT: Exactly.
Patricia Kayden
RIP Hastings. 33 is way too young.
Keith G
@rda909:
Judging from the zero evidence used in your maligning of this man’s professionalism and motives, I tend to agree with your self-assessment.
Democrats should not act like wingnuts.
Ted & Hellen
@Kris Collins:
Credulous tool, thy name is Kris Collins.