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I really should read my own blog.

Everybody saw this coming.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

No one could have predicted…

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

This fight is for everything.

The next time the wall wtreet journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

You cannot shame the shameless.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded $115 million in damages Friday by a Florida jury in an invasion of privacy case against Gawker.com over its publication of a sex tape.

The wrestler, known in court by his legal name, Terry G. Bollea, sobbed as the verdict was announced in late afternoon, according to people in the courtroom. The jury had considered the case for about six hours.

Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker and a defendant in the case, was found personally liable, as was Albert J. Daulerio, the site’s former editor in chief.

In his closing argument in the two-week trial, the wrestler’s lawyer delivered a lacerating attack on Gawker’s culture and guiding principles.

“It’s just porn,” the lawyer, Kenneth G. Turkel, told the six-person jury in St. Petersburg, Fla., considering the claim by the 62-year-old former wrestler that he was humiliated and emotionally shattered by Gawker’s 2012 publication of a secretly recorded video of him having sex with a friend’s wife.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

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  1. 1.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    WHATCHA YA GONNA DO BROTHER, WHEN THE 24″ PYTHONS AND HULKAMANIA RUN WILD ON YOU!?

    Woooo!

  5. 5.

    Served

    I was genuinely shocked at how smug and sarcastic Daulerio was in his depo. It was GHASTLY. Why would they treat a legal proceeding like it was still Gawker?

  7. 7.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    speaking of internet outlets, the fever has finally broke at GOS.

    Tuesday’s rout did the trick.

    for the first time in a year and a half I perused the site without having to shower off the sick CDS muck.

  9. 9.

    BBA

    The left-wing answer to Breitbart forced to give all its assets to a racist over-the-hill steroid addict.

    That’s…uh…something?

  13. 13.

    bystander

    How many men with steroid-ravaged genitals will now want to be filmed so they can sue for pain and suffering? Slippery slope.

  14. 14.

    Germy

    …the claim by the 62-year-old former wrestler that he was humiliated and emotionally shattered by Gawker’s 2012 publication of a secretly recorded video of him having sex with a friend’s wife.

    Imagine how the friend must feel.

    And it’s not his real name? All this time I thought his last name was Hogan and his parents named him Hulk.

  16. 16.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Erin Andrews gets $55,000,000 dollars. Hulk gets $115,000,000 dollars. TAX FREE! Praise the Invisible Hand.

    I image there are some media personalities leaking nude tapes to internet outlets as we speak.

  17. 17.

    Germy

    @Marc:

    for having her husband set it up, film someone without their consent, and cash in.

    Oh, I didn’t know about that part.

  18. 18.

    Davebo

    @Steve in the ATL:

    He’ll be incredibly lucky to see 5 million.

    The editor certainly doesn’t have that kind of cash so he’s out for assumably half.

    The founder also probably can’t cover 50 million plus. And whatever he manages to get out of the two is taxable income since no physical injury was incurred.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    The rationale used by Gawker was similar to that used by the douchebags who distributed and enjoyed the nude photographs of various female stars. Since they were public personas, they were fair game. If they ever appeared in a film nude or even in a provocative pose, then they had no right to privacy. If they ever discussed or alluded to their sex lives in interviews, they gave up any privacy rights.

    We will see what happens on appeal, but Hogan made a fairly good case I think that his wrestling persona was a performance, and not the same as who he was as an individual.

    I don’t see what public service Gawker was pursuing in trying to publicize this material.

  21. 21.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Davebo: I can’t imagine the amount standing up on appeal, if the verdict even survives at all, but not my area of expertise. Interesting times….

  22. 22.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m just glad we won’t ever have to see another Terry Bollea sex tape. This is a win for humanity.

  23. 23.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I don’t care if people like Sanders. But left wing CDS is as disgusting as right wing CDS. Especially when they’re too lazy and unimaginative to develop their own substantive line of attacks and simply repeat Trey Gowdy’s discredited personal smears.

  25. 25.

    Marc

    Yea, this seems to me to be pretty similar to the Andrews case. I’m having a hard time seeing why they’re legally different. The gawker folks really were arrogant as hell.

  29. 29.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: You should remember that the rabble don’t have our brilliant political acumen for determining what is an acceptable political attack and what is out of bounds. They just know what they like and don’t like. We need to teach classes.

  31. 31.

    geg6

    @gene108:

    I’m with you. Both sides here disgust me. In fact, I find Mr. Bollea vastly more distasteful than Gawker. And that’s saying something.

  33. 33.

    Davebo

    @Steve in the ATL: I’d agree the amount won’t stand but I’m not so sure the verdict will change.

    As I said, even if the award is dropped to 10 million there’s a zero chance of him getting 5 million. Ask the family of Ron Goldman!

  35. 35.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @John Cole: Are you high? Where did I say she did anything wrong? You have to stop UR crazed projection.

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    @Marc:

    Yea, this seems to me to be pretty similar to the Andrews case. I’m having a hard time seeing why they’re legally different.

    I can see several ways they’re legally different. The biggest, most obvious one is that Andrews sued the person who filmed her and the hotels who let him do it, while Hogan went after the Gawker for publicizing his sex tape. That means they had to pursue completely different legal theories.

  38. 38.

    geg6

    @Brachiator:

    If that jury bought an argument as stupid as that, they are even more stupid than I could have imagined. This is a guy who sold his personal life as a reality tv show. Fuck him. I wouldn’t give him a penny.

    ETA: Perhaps my disgust with professional wrestling and people who are such attention whores that they splash their personal lives and families on reality tv shows may be coloring my opinion. Nah. Hulk Hogan is a horrible human being, regardless.

  39. 39.

    kc

    @Roger Moore:

    Yeah, Gawker had a First Amendment defense. “It was journalism.” Not present in the Andrews case.

    Not saying I buy Gawker’s defense, btw.

  40. 40.

    Germy

    @geg6:

    If that jury bought an argument as stupid as that, they are even more stupid than I could have imagined.

    Must have been a jury of his peers?

  42. 42.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Well, it was no less than Kos himself who recently taught them a lesson, explaining in chapter and verse why he would no longer permit publication of their right wing talking points.

    Of course they didn’t need any lessons. Let’s dispel with this fiction that the Sandernistas didn’t know what they were doing. They knew exactly what they were doing.

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    @John Cole: I didn’t read it that way. Seems to me he was just noting that celebrities are compensated at much higher rates than other people when they are wronged. No accusation that past cases weren’t wronged, just that future lawsuits might not quite so clear. Might beat washed up musicians hitting the state fair circuit for rehab money.

    Compare that to how we compensate black families with dead relatives from the hands of police or poor parents whose kids were poisoned by the state who might be lucky to get a hundred grand. I think that’s the contrast you are supposed to draw here.

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    I know his attorney. In fact I know most of everyone in his attorney’s extended family. Good people, though I haven’t spoken to or seen any of them for years. In fact I know several of the attorneys in the firms younger brothers or cousins – as we all went to the same high school. One of the attorney’s there went to high school with my younger brother.

    Small world!

    As for this case, it’ll be interesting to see what happens on appeal. Hogan brought the same suit in Federal Court and lost. This is why they switched to Florida state court.

    And the big question, still unanswered, is who sent the tape to the folks at Gawker. Hogan has claimed it wasn’t him. The question is was it Bubba The Love Sponge (formerly Todd before he had it legally changed) Clem? Was it his then wife who is on the tape? I’m not sure it really bears on the case (or in this case is that bares?)

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Steve in the ATL: The appeal is what will be interesting. Hogan originally brought suit in Federal Court where he lost. He then decided that he’d have a better shot in a Florida state court.

  47. 47.

    scav

    Stepping back and squinting a bit, I’m seeing a few weird dots, Martin Shkreli’s arrogance, sense of invulnerability and personality is somehow pulled from the same pit as AJ Daulerio’s and I’m not sure the populace is as enamored with those preening sharks as it once was.

  49. 49.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Maybe, but I’m still unclear on how “Sandernistas” are somehow a monolithic political group responsible for all the ills of the world, versus, say Clinton surrogates who used right wing – and racist – attacks against Obama in 2008.

  50. 50.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Gravenstone: Oh fuck you. I never said “more celebs leaking nude tapes” you illiterate monkey. I said, “I image there are some media personalities leaking.” We had this is the past. Pam Anderson and Kim Kardashian obviously “leaked” sex tapes for profit motives.

  51. 51.

    Mike in NC

    This weekend in Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan will endorse Trump, live on stage with the real estate mogul and a shitfaced Wayne Newton. It’s all showbiz, people.

  52. 52.

    Roger Moore

    @? Martin:

    Seems to me he was just noting that celebrities are compensated at much higher rates than other people when they are wronged.

    Two points:

    1) It’s not obvious that’s true. Plenty of non-celebrities have won huge judgments, especially when punitive damages are figured in.

    2) In at least some cases, damages are based on on things that tend to favor the rich and famous. They earn more money, so damages based on lost wages are more. They are better known, so damage to their reputation is comparatively worse. And they’re more likely to attract a lot of interest, so damages based on how many people see their sex tape will be correspondingly large.

  53. 53.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m not smart enough to understand all the legal mumbo jumbo but it sounds like you are saying the respective spouses own the legal rights to the cheating couple’s sexy time?

  56. 56.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Not saying that at all. I’m saying that as far as I can tell Hogan has done nothing legally wrong. Ethically? Depends on how you view cheating on your own spouse wth the spouse of your best friend.

    The one unanswered question after all this time is still: who leaked the tape? And why?

  57. 57.

    mark

    Growing up in Tampa, I knew several fake errr… “Pro” wrestlers and went to school at Jesuit HS with a lot of their kids. The announcer, Gordon Solie who was The Man back then lived 2 homes down from me. Nice guy but ..always thought the benefit of knowing that WWF was all bullshit and fake at very early age a huge plus in my development. To not trust what you see on TV is not taught to most American kids

    Great Malenko the evil Russian was from Brooklyn and Jewish. Pat Song and his deadly “claw” move from North Korea was born and grew up in San Francisco. etc. etc. Its amazing how many pro wrestlers lived in Tampa. Btw, played football against Hogan is H.S. and he wasn’t that good. Glad he won his lawsuit not so much for him but the scumbags he sued.

  58. 58.

    Tim C.

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I think that’s because while the crazy is deep and wide in their diaries, Kos himself remains a very practical and sensible dude. Not perfect, but when push comes to shove he would never cut off his nose to spite his face.

  59. 59.

    raven

    @mark: 40 years ago I broke my back and spent 2 months in Grady Hospital in Atlanta. I had never known anyone who thought pro wrestling was a real sport until I was on a ward with a dude who did. It was hilarious!

  60. 60.

    ? Martin

    @Roger Moore:

    1) It’s not obvious that’s true. Plenty of non-celebrities have won huge judgments, especially when punitive damages are figured in.

    2) In at least some cases, damages are based on on things that tend to favor the rich and famous. They earn more money, so damages based on lost wages are more. They are better known, so damage to their reputation is comparatively worse. And they’re more likely to attract a lot of interest, so damages based on how many people see their sex tape will be correspondingly large.

    No, I get all of that. But Hulk Hogan doesn’t carry the lost wages argument any more – he sure as shit isn’t staring down the barrel of $115M in earnings due to his celebrity. But I think that speaks to David’s point – if you are a recognized name with few future earning prospects, why not toss your sex tape into the ring and hope to win a suit. In either case (which are quite different) the jury seems to be basing their damages on the effect of embarrassment on a public figure. Lots of people can reach that standard.

  62. 62.

    smith

    @Tim C.: I think in general Kos feels more allegiance to the Democratic Party than to any particular candidate. Not that he doesn’t pick sides in primaries but his overall goals are larger than that.

  63. 63.

    ? Martin

    @Mai.naem.mobile:

    so does this mean that if Hils routs the Donald the fever on the right might finally break?

    Fever didn’t break when Goldwater got routed in 64. In fact, it’s pretty much the same fucking fever 52 years later.

  65. 65.

    Gin & Tonic

    @raven: Jeez, I’m old enough to remember Sunnyside Garden; I think the bouts were broadcast on WOR, Channel 9. Even then everybody knew it was all staged.

    One time waiting for a plane out of LGA, i sat a couple of barstools down from Andre the Giant, who was nursing a drink, probably also waiting for a plane. Dude kept to himself.

  66. 66.

    geg6

    @? Martin:

    AFAICT, Florida Man was every person on this idiot jury. This is a ridiculous case and a ridiculous verdict. He’s a media whore. Media whores can’t be embarrassed or have their privacy invaded. They live off that shit. Literally, in his case for sure. Just another reason to never step foot in Florida again.

  67. 67.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I don’t support her. I have always said I support the most electable candidate. Unfortunately the most electable candidate Lawerence Lessig dropped out. And Sanders isn’t electable. Even you have said you doubt his electability. Now, if Warren was running, I would support her as strongly as I did Obama. But she’s not. That leaves one electable candidate – Clinton.

    My cable system dropped MSNBC, leaving me with CNN. Do I support CNN – no. But it’s more palatable than TYT and Fixxed News.

  68. 68.

    raven

    @Ben Cisco: This guy was bent over in a trunk when a car slammed into him and broke both his legs and his hips. A month after my surgery they came and removed the stitches from my hip where they had done a bone graft. The skin had grown over the stitches and it hurt like hell when they took them out and I made some noise. He laughed his ass off as he did when the guy next to me had a win break in his traction splint and they replaced that. So he bitched and whined about wanting to go home and they finally said “Ok but we will put you in a cast”. He agreed and they took him down to the casting room. When he came back they had put him in a full body with a bar between his legs!!! There was nothing he could do but cry and my buddy and I laughed our asses off as they wheeled him out!!!

  70. 70.

    Adam L Silverman

    @mark: What years were you at Jesuit? If you played football against Hogan, you were there way before me. I know a bunch of the same folks. The best Malenko story was when Malenko brought Father Billac to Rodeph Shalom Synagogue one year for Simchat Torah (the Festival or Receiving the Law). Billac worked out at Malenko’s (real last name Simon) gym on Cypress. My Dad handed him one of the Torahs to dance with and he just beamed.

  74. 74.

    Chyron HR

    @geg6:

    Oh, he’s famous? Well, obviously we should be able to see his genitals anytime we want; this is AMERICA, after all.

  76. 76.

    raven

    @Ben Cisco: He also listened to church on Sunday mornings! Meanwhile the orderlies would roll me and my buddy over to the windows and we’d fire up the bud!!!

  78. 78.

    raven

    Looks like the NFL is putting the heat on these jackasses in Georgia for their fucking religious liberty bill.

  79. 79.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Iowa Old Lady: Thats why I’m praying they figure out a way to get Cruz the nomination. He’s a pure conservative, the kind CPAC junkies kill for. The only thing that is going to break the conservative fever – and nothing but dying will – is to nominate a Real Conservative (TM) and lose with him. You’d think the fact the Real Conservative (TM) can’t even win with Republicans in the primary would be a clue that he can’t win a general but that would require critical thinking and stuff.

  80. 80.

    Steve in the ATL

    @raven:

    This was in Atlanta and TBS was just a local station that showed that shit and the Braves.

    The Bill Tush Show, with up and coming comedienne Jan Hooks?

  82. 82.

    raven

    That is the last thing that Arthur Blank, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, wants to hear. He’s eager to host Super Bowls in the team’s new stadium, which is set to open in 2017. The team is currently finalizing its presentation to NFL owners for a May meeting.

    “The bid that we put together is a very, very competitive one,” Blank said last month. “Not just because of the stadium, but because of where the stadium is located in downtown Atlanta.”

    The NFL has moved a Super Bowl amid controversy before. It relocated the 1993 game from Arizona to a stadium outside Los Angeles after Arizona refused to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday.

    HB 757 has already hurt Georgia’s reputation. A coalition of businesses — including Twitter, Chase, UPS and Delta — signed a pledge stating they believe that treating all Georgians fairly “is essential to maintaining Georgia’s strong brand as the premier home for talented workers, growing businesses, entrepreneurial innovation, and a thriving travel and tourism industry.” Salesforce, a cloud-computing company valued at $44 billion, vowed to pull its investments out of Atlanta if the bill becomes law.

    Deal has said he won’t sign any bill that promotes discrimination in order to protect people of faith. The Huffington Post reached out to his office on Thursday to see if that means he’ll veto HB 757. His spokeswoman Jen Talaber didn’t offer much clarity.

  84. 84.

    Mike J

    @Gin & Tonic: I thought Mark Twain was ahead of his time when he used sarcasm tags in his works. Without them, nobody would have gotten the joke.

  85. 85.

    smith

    @geg6:

    Media whores can’t be embarrassed or have their privacy invaded.

    Sorry. but this sounds a lot like the argument that whores can’t be raped. He may be a reality show performer, and an obnoxious one at that, but “reality shows” are shows, not reality. A performer in a reality show should still be able to sequester some of his life from the public if he wishes.

  87. 87.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I support Clinton and I have doubts about Sanders electability even though electability arguments are like assholes but that doesn’t mean I’m going to gratuitously shit on the voters we may need in November. Sanders was never going to win the primary and if lightning struck and he somehow did, that was actually a good thing because it would have revealed that Clinton was too weak to win a general and Sanders was riding a wave election. But you jackals just like to shit on people so you took every opportunity to alienate people you might need in November. It’s like you were shitty, shitty winners.

  90. 90.

    geg6

    @Chyron HR:

    That’s not what I said, but please feel free to completely misrepresent what I said. The asshole is claiming he was being a private citizen when he’s not playing a fake athlete. And so his personal life should be out of bounds and he was humiliated by having his personal life splashed all over the Internet. This is completely bullshit. The guy put his personal life, with his family and all their personal foibles, on national tv on a reality tv show. Their fights, their romances and their breakups. He simply can’t claim that his personal life is suddenly off the table and that having his personal shit on the Internet has now made him so embarrassed and humiliated that it’s ruined his life. He did that to himself. There is no equivalence to the Erin Andrews case and that they awarded him a penny, let alone $115 million is a travesty of justice and an outrage to people who have actually had their privacy invaded.

  91. 91.

    Howard Beale IV

    Gawker is appealing and will probably get that judgement either voided or significantly reduced.

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Nothing in his entire thread makes a scrap of sense to me. It’s like I wandered into a remote country where I recognised a few words here and there but none of the syntax and none of the context and none of the cultural touchstones.

    I’m just going to put on my PJs and finish reading my book.

  94. 94.

    Steve in the ATL

    @geg6:

    That’s not what I said, but please feel free to completely misrepresent what I said. The asshole is claiming he was being a private citizen when he’s not playing a fake athlete. And so his personal life should be out of bounds and he was humiliated by having his personal life splashed all over the Internet. This is completely bullshit. The guy put his personal life, with his family and all their personal foibles, on national tv on a reality tv show. Their fights, their romances and their breakups. He simply can’t claim that his personal life is suddenly off the table and that having his personal shit on the Internet has now made him so embarrassed and humiliated that it’s ruined his life. He did that to himself. There is no equivalence to the Erin Andrews case and that they awarded him a penny, let alone $115 million is a travesty of justice and an outrage to people who have actually had their privacy invaded.

    Steve in the ATL, J., concurs.

  100. 100.

    PurpleGirl

    @Germy: Even I knew that Terry Bollea was his actual name and that Hulk Hogan was just the stage-character name he used when wrestling.

    ETA: Or does my snark meter need adjusting?

  101. 101.

    Steve in the ATL

    @geg6: I thought it was curious too that the judgment was against Nick Denton and the editor personally as well as against Gawker. Not sure how Florida law reads on that, but wouldn’t they need something pretty major to pierce the corporate veil? Or, the simpler explanation is jury composed of six Florida Men.

    Would also like to see the jury instructions. There has got to be reversible error there to get that kind of award.

    Of course, experience has also taught me that the entire purpose of Florida (its government, businesses, and citizens) is to extract money from out of state interests.

  102. 102.

    geg6

    @smith:

    Yeah. No. It’s not even close. He’s put his whole life on view. Actual whores aren’t on duty 24/7. It’s just a job. They don’t do it for fame or attention. They do it to live and, often, feed their children. I respect whores. I don’t respect this asshole or the Kardashians or anyone else who put it all out there and then try to draw a line after the fact. Fuck him with his own tiny little steroid shriveled dick.

  104. 104.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Just Some Fuckhead: What a joke. So it’s okay for Sanders’s supporters to personally attack Clinton’s voters with disgusting misogyny and racism. But pointing out the behavior is the real offense. How Republican.

    Emily Nussbaum, television critic for the New Yorker magazine, tweeted some positive feedback for Hillary Clinton.

    “I’m into Hillary, obviously, but I genuinely thought she did really well tonight,” Ms Nussbaum wrote.

    About a half an hour later, she followed up with this: “Man, the Feel The Bern crew (as opposed to Bern himself) is such a drag. Say anything pro-Hil & they yell ‘bitch‘ & ‘psycho.’ V idealistic!”

    Kathleen Geier, a freelance contributor to The Nation and herself a Sanders supporter, says while she has gotten her fair share of ugly online comments from male Clinton supporters, the level of vitriol coming from what she calls a “tiny minority” of Sanders boosters troubles her.

    “I think they’re doing harm to the cause,” she says. “I haven’t seen people treat Obama supporters like this, or supporters of other male establishment candidates – just Hillary. So it’s definitely misogyny.”

    Sexism is not the only bad behaviour demonstrated online by Sanders supporters – an ugly racial element has arisen, too.

    “I’ve gotten everything from ‘shill’, ‘paid infiltrator’, to flat out having somebody actually call me a N***** in the midst of this,” says Elon James White, CEO of This Week in Blackness, who has been critical of Mr Sanders’ record on race.

    “They harass and try to take away the credibility from the people who question Mr Sanders.”

  107. 107.

    Gin & Tonic

    @geg6:

    Fuck him with his own tiny little steroid shriveled dick.

    I’m going to file that under “Facts I Didn’t Need to Know.”

  109. 109.

    geg6

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I don’t know that it’s a fact, but I am of the opinion that professional wrestlers probably have small dicks to begin with simply because if there is anything professional wrestling is about other than over compensation, I can’t imagine what it would be. And then we get into the rampant abuse of steroids in that circus and the known side effects on male genitalia and, well, I think shriveled dicks are probably an occupational hazard.

  110. 110.

    burnspbesq

    The best performances of the tournament to date: Thomas Walkup (SFA) and Makai Mason (Yale). Wonder what odds you could have gotten on that …

  111. 111.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: So second hand stories about rando voters who probably aren’t even Democrats are the fault of Bernie Sanders and/or reflective of Sanders supporters on the whole but actual right wing and racist attacks by Clinton surrogates in 2008 are meh, whatever? It sounds like you may actually have a side here versus being some impartial arbiter of the most electable candidate.

  115. 115.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    Regardless of my personal opinion of Hogan, this verdict sets a good precedent, and will be helpful for future revenge-porn victims. It doesn’t matter if they’re a “public figure.” It doesn’t matter if he talked about sex. (Elizabeth Hasselbeck tried the same nonsense argument, slut-shaming Erin Andrews for wearing a skimpy outfit on Dancing with the Stars.) It wouldn’t even matter if Hogan or Andrews had consensually posed nude on some other occasion – that doesn’t mean the rules of consent no longer apply to them.

    Gawker chose to disregard consent, and they’re paying for it. Even if the award gets reduced, the next Hunter Moore or .Michael David Barrett has a good incentive to think twice.

  117. 117.

    jl

    This does get Hulk back in the news. He supporting Trump?
    If so, maybe this gets him on the short list for Trump veep nom?
    Irresponsible not to speculate (INTS)

  119. 119.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Aimai: I’m not implicating Pumas. I’m implicating actual Clinton surrogates. That’s the beauty of this argument.

  121. 121.

    Joel

    @Adam L Silverman: Reportedly it was an extortion scam, right? I don’t know the ins and outs (no pun intended) of this case, because I learned about it when How Did This Get Made did their No Holds Barred episode. But it sure sounds like a classic extortion case, and Gawker was the willing media outlet.

  122. 122.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I feel bad about my earlier negative comment about Terry Bollea. In a just world, I should have never seen the Bollea sex tape, much less masturbated to it over and over. Gawker must pay.

  123. 123.

    JGabriel

    @Germy:

    And it’s not his real name? All this time I thought his last name was Hogan and his parents named him Hulk.

    I know. I’m so disillusioned. Shattered even. Next thing you know, we’ll discover that Peter Everhard’s real name isn’t really Peter Everhard.

  126. 126.

    jl

    @Just Some Fuckhead: You certainly have left a documented history in the blog comments of being an extremely sensitive and delicate flower of a person.

    I will testify in your support. I’ll have some expenses though. Perhaps large expenses.

  128. 128.

    Aimai

    @Just Some Fuckhead: what are you even talking about. David koch was specifically talking about dkos. Kos shuts down surrogates and posters who contravene site policy. He did so to clinton supporters who bashed or attacked obama and he is doing so to sanders supporters who attack hillary. Its perfectly evenhanded. You are making no sense.

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    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Gawker is still silent. Daulerio and Denton are having chug contests of Maalox and Scotch at the bar nearest Gawker headquarters, and their lawyers are happily counting stacks of replenished retainer for the appeal filing.

  133. 133.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @jl: Your reputation would never recover from supporting me. You’d prolly have to change one of the two letters in your pseudonym to ever have a normal life again.

  135. 135.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Joel: I remember seeing something on that, but its never been quite clear to me who was doing the extortion? Clem? Clem’s now ex-wife? Hogan himself? Some third party? Hogan has stated that he didn’t know he was being recorded. Since this was the Clem’s home, that leaves the two of them. I just can’t imagine what the motive would be.

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    Howard Beale IV

    @Adam L Silverman: Bubba is the original source of the recording-curiously he was not allowed to testify in the trial, which Gawker will sure to use in their appeal.

  138. 138.

    Adam L Silverman

    @mark: That wasn’t meant as a knock on you/your age. I tried to edit the original reply I made and the edit function went wonky, so I threw that up as a second reply. There is nothing wrong with being older than me.

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    Cheap Jim, formerly Cheap Jim

    Has Florida just become the American Britain, where anyone who doesn’t like what the press writes threaten to prosecute because the courts just roll over for them?

  142. 142.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    That sounds suspiciously like the argument that you can’t rape a prostitute.

    If you define “prostitute” as “anyone the speaker decides is too sexual,” of course. I made the mistake of looking at a comments thread one some site or other when the Erin Andrews verdict came in. “She only got the job because of her looks, so she’s a slut and the rules of consent don’t apply to her!” “She was prancing around on Dancing With the Stars, so she’s a slut and the rules of consent don’t apply to her!” (The “rules of consent” part was not stated outright, of course, probably because the commenters didn’t actually grasp the concept of consent.)

    It’s kinda weird watching a man get slut-shamed, actually.

  143. 143.

    seaboogie

    @Adam L Silverman: Cuckolding is a thing in the erotic world. So if you get two payoffs (orgasm + extortion), that just probably ups the ante – especially with a celebrity. World is a strange place.

  145. 145.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Adam L Silverman: This judgement is way out of line when you look at other recent judgements for invasion of privacy and the process that this trial took. Gawker fully expected to be on the losing side a few days ago and planned on appealing. Also, the video leaked long before Gawker got its paws on it and Boella was in damage control-Gawker was the one website who had the deepest pockets he could go after. His career as a wrestler was long over a decade ago. And most damage awards on appeal usually get trimmed dramatically if they aren’t overturned outright (which this one has a chance of happening due to the video being leaked to other sites.)

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    Andy

    I fucking hate you guys! If it isn’t somebody I like , fuck their post!
    Troll…..everybody I don’t know.
    This is part of the problem….IMO.

  148. 148.

    mark

    @NotMax: Wow! too funny.

    Of course I meant growing up with rock & roll and at 8 y/o watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan live and then the music of the 60s and 70s

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    David Lloyd-Jones

    @gene108: “Hogan” still seems to be walking around, in the land of the Second Amendment, yet. I’d say this is a small suggestion that the husband is a nice guy.

  155. 155.

    Andy

    @Andy: This site is heavily into Clinton, that may be a big mistake down the road.
    I’m just a douche-bag, no bona fides that count on this site. Which is usual for the top earners. Which make up most of the postings from the majority commentators of this blog. 200K plus is pretty damn good. No matter what your field.

  156. 156.

    Andy

    @Andy: Also the emphasis on calling someone a” troll.”
    It basically shuts down conversation on whatever that person posted.
    Fuck….You …Purists.. !
    Listen to other viewpoints, no matter how elementary to your senses.
    Fucking- A ,the proprietor of this site was a fucking conservative.
    Now you fawn at his postings…Disgusting!

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    FridayNext

    @David Lloyd-Jones:
    You mean the guy who encouraged his wife to have sex with his friend, then taped it saying to his wife something like “this is gonna make us rich.”

    Yeah seems like a peach!

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