The Dorothy Parker Rule is that “One should only say good of the dead.” Thus: “Ken Starr is dead. Good.” Or, turning to the estimable Oscar Wilde, who always had a good response for events: “Some spread joy wherever they go; some whenever they go.” There’s a lot to be said about Ken Starr, but dredging it up isn’t necessary.
as soon as I heard about it yesterday, my quick response was "good." and while there are indeed many things to say about him, there's a shorthand that covers a LOT of it. namely, "prick."
a friend of his was quoted in today's NYT as saying that he was an amazingly sweet guy and a remarkably ethical lawyer. fuck them both.
Har har. Was thinking similarly. Never speak badly of the dead, but don't avoid the opportunity to wish them Gospeed. And, maybe a little nudge, extra burger, "sweetened diet coke," a visit from Garland's wet workers as it sleeps.
YES!! And thank you for saying so. I read the NYT article on Starr (well, just the headline) and I was disappointed the comment section was not open because I wanted to post “Good. The world is a better place without the likes of that slimy salacious bastard.” How many lives did he gleefully ruin in his tenure? This is how he will be remembered.
I don’t have any problem speaking ill of the dead. But with some people you just don’t know where to start. Ken Starr is one of those. He screwed up so much stuff, either through malice or incompetence, sometimes both, and hurt so many people, that you just have to mark him as vile. And he was a big contributor to our political disfunction. If Starr has a place in history, it will be adjacent to people such as James Thomson Callender, Robert A. Taft and Joseph McCarthy, people who did nothing positive and diminished everything they touched. (Yeah, I know, tfg too.) Good riddance.
Boy howdy are you telling me! Rochester, NY law enforcement does not take too kindly to a 66 year old gray haired, flabby, losing to gravity, white woman shaking her naked fat ass booty up and down the street shouting, "Fuck Yeah!"
as soon as I heard about it yesterday, my quick response was "good." and while there are indeed many things to say about him, there's a shorthand that covers a LOT of it. namely, "prick."
a friend of his was quoted in today's NYT as saying that he was an amazingly sweet guy and a remarkably ethical lawyer. fuck them both.
'Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.'
___Mel Brooks
Or as with Homer Simpson’s epitaph as proposed by Patty and Selma:
We are Richer For Having Lost Him
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Dorothy Parker.
🗽
Damn, TC, that’s concise.
Har har. Was thinking similarly. Never speak badly of the dead, but don't avoid the opportunity to wish them Gospeed. And, maybe a little nudge, extra burger, "sweetened diet coke," a visit from Garland's wet workers as it sleeps.
Thanks for the chuckle, Tom.
First I felt shock. Then I felt other things. He did so much harm in so many venues. A model of the Grand Inquisitor. Or Baron Scarpia.
YES!! And thank you for saying so. I read the NYT article on Starr (well, just the headline) and I was disappointed the comment section was not open because I wanted to post “Good. The world is a better place without the likes of that slimy salacious bastard.” How many lives did he gleefully ruin in his tenure? This is how he will be remembered.
Off this coil he shuffles, to appear wig-wringing before the great star chamber in the heavens.
I don’t have any problem speaking ill of the dead. But with some people you just don’t know where to start. Ken Starr is one of those. He screwed up so much stuff, either through malice or incompetence, sometimes both, and hurt so many people, that you just have to mark him as vile. And he was a big contributor to our political disfunction. If Starr has a place in history, it will be adjacent to people such as James Thomson Callender, Robert A. Taft and Joseph McCarthy, people who did nothing positive and diminished everything they touched. (Yeah, I know, tfg too.) Good riddance.
Boy howdy are you telling me! Rochester, NY law enforcement does not take too kindly to a 66 year old gray haired, flabby, losing to gravity, white woman shaking her naked fat ass booty up and down the street shouting, "Fuck Yeah!"
My thought was 'couldn't happen to a better guy'.... can't help but wonder who he saw in his mirror?
“There is no shortage of fault to be found among our Starr.” What John Green should have written