Here are links to some videos that go over the best and the worst of 2017 (because I couldn't possibly remember everything that happened):

2017 in 7 minutes - Vox
"Hail and Farewell" to those who passed - CBS Sunday Morning
Google - Year In Search 2017
Year in Reivew - 10 Stories That Defined 2017 | NBC News
The year in review: 2017 month-by-month ( Read more... )

In the past 48 hours, some serious shit has hit the fan.

In Touch magazine broke the story - in 2002 and 2003, Josh Duggar molested at least five young women by fondling their breasts and vaginal area while they slept. There were also incidents mentioned where he touched someone while he was reading to them and touched another person under their ( Read more... )

Back in 1969, Bill Cosby did a comedy routine about how, at the age of 13, he heard about something called Spanish Fly and was obsessed with the whole idea of slipping something into a woman's drink to see what would happen.

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In what may be a case of life imitating "art", Cosby is facing scrutiny that's coming to a boil, in part because of the ( Read more... )

Just a note: I'm not putting this entry behind a cut because of any kind of "triggers". I'm not going to sugar-coat a single thing I'm about to say because I think it's time we stop acting like sexual molestation is something that people need to be embarrassed about. The only people who need to be embarrassed are the sex offenders.

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Seattle police are re-opening the investigation into Kurt Cobain's 1994 death after more evidence has come to light:

Last month, police developed four rolls of film that had been sitting for years in a Seattle police evidence vault. The 35 mm film was processed by the King County Sheriff's Office photo lab under high security ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I think this is the only fitting thing to post right now. My heart is so sad.

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Bill Maher is stooping to new lows to defend his remarks about Sarah Palin in comparison to remarks made by Rush Limbaugh about professional activist and globe-trotter Sandra Fluke.
“I’m a comedian, not just a guy who says he is, like Rush, but someone who -- well, you saw me do stand-up last year in D.C. There’s a big difference between just ( Read more... )