I enjoy Gavin McInnes on TV. His writing is not that interesting to me, but that’s a matter of taste. McInnes seems to have the right instincts and a willingness to say unpopular things. We need more of that, which is why the lunatics have decided he has to be killed. They hate anyone who says or writes unapproved things. According to this story, a lynch mob of degenerates has managed to get him suspended from his job at an ad agency.

Gavin McInnes, chief creative officer of Rooster in New York, has been asked to take an indefinite leave of absence following the publication of a transphobic essay.

Published earlier this week on Thought Catalog, “Transphobia is Perfectly Natural” has at publication received 2,082 comments. It has also sparked a “Boycott Rooster” movement, with Tumblr and Twitter accounts asking followers to let Rooster clients—Vans, Red Bull, Fox Sports and others—know they will not support companies that work with McInnes.

“Gavin’s views are his own and do not represent those of the company or its members,” said a Rooster representative. “We are extremely disappointed with his actions and have asked that he take a leave of absence while we determine the most appropriate course of action.”

McInnes co-founded Rooster in 2010 as an agency that would make ads for people who hate ads. He has appeared in the shop’s work for Vans, most recently as the man who explains how to do absolutely everything.

Prior to that, he co-founded Vice Magazine. McInnes has made controversial comments publicly before, with essays on Thought Catalog and contributions to Fox News. Though, due to the tone of his work, some are unsure if it is meant to be taken seriously.

McInnes could not be reached for comment.

If you go to the site where the article is published, you get this message:

The article you are trying to read has been reported by the community as hateful or abusive content. For more information about our reporting system head to our about page.

I can only assume the “community” is full of perverts and pansies. Why else put up the notice?

The fact is we have reached some sort of tipping point. Sex is a biological reality, not a social construct. Humans are either male or female and that’s determined by genetics. The people butchering themselves to change their sex are not doing anything but butchering themselves. They most likely suffer from a form of mental illness. Apotemnophilia is treated as a mental disorder and that’s not materially different from what the “trans” people suffer.

Of course, this is not about biological reality. It is about religious fanatics trying to force their morality on the rest of us. This pagan cult we call liberalism is no different from the Muslim lunatics running Iran. They only lack the ability to behead heretic in public. You’ll note I said “ability” and not “willingness.” Since they cannot murder McInnes, they will do the next best thing and that’s ostracize him. If he loses his job, they know the next guy will censure himself so as to avoid the same fate.

This madness cannot hold forever. Boys cannot become girls and two guys playing house is not marriage. If these obvious realities cannot be spoken in public, what other realities must be ignored? At what point does this disconnect become untenable?  When do normal people stop ignoring these lunatics and begin top push back? Or, are we headed for the same fate as Iran?

I’m not an attorney, but I wonder when some pissed off victim will decide to sue these protesters. It strikes me that this is a clear case of tortious interference. These people are threatening a business. They are interfering with the contractual relationship McInnes has with this ad agency. Hiding behind the first amendment should not be a defense of what is brown-shirted thuggary.

Gateway Pundit asks, “Is the media trying to get Ferguson police office Darren Wilson lynched?”

The answer is yes. They are hoping a mob of angry black people burn the man’s house down with him and his family in it. Maybe a Reginald Denny style beating so they can get some good video. The reason is two-fold. One is they know it makes good television. We get to see angry black people going nuts on TV all the time. Seeing a white guy getting the business from a sympathetic mob is a ratings bonanza.

Then there is the fact the Left hates normal white people. They assume that normal white people love the cops. They also assume that it is still 1968, the imaginary 1968 where blacks were beaten on a daily basis by the cops. That’s why they are trying really hard to lead the mob of angry black people to the home of the cop. They want to see some mayhem, which is pretty much all the Left offers these days.

The reason comments are moderated is the spam problem. There’s a way to fiddle with WordPress to defeat the robots, but I have not invested the time to do it. The usual way to defeat the robots is to require a registration or CAPTCHA . I’m not a big fan of either so I just check in regularly to approve the comments. In the process I read a lot of spam. There’s two approaches I see most often. One is the post is designed to look real, but with links to some scam baked into it. “I agree completely! Keep up the good work” is common. The give away is the fact the post links to fake Nike sneakers and the poster calls themselves Cheap Nike Sneakers.

Then there are posts that seem to be random word generation. I’m guessing they pack the message with words designed to fool the spam filters. You see this with e-mail spam. Some of it is hilarious. I just had a bunch like this one. The links are safe. One points to a consultancy in Washington DC. I don’t think they advocate the easting of testicles.

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The point of these spam posts is a mystery to me. A few months ago I was bombarded with spam from a Ukrainian robot promoting the services of a parking garage company. The name used was something about fake viagra, but the links in the post were to a parking garage company. I called the company and finally got connected with their IT guy. He had no idea why a Ukrainian robot was posting links to his website. Maybe he was lying. Maybe he was an idiot.

Anyway, I’m thinking about using Disqus for comments here. I think they filter spam so then I can let the comments go live.

Texas is the new cool place these days. There are a bunch of TV shows shot in the state. Austin has become the hipster place to be. An Austin aesthetic has developed that is showing up all over. It’s like white trash meets SoHo. It helps that the economy is booming with major companies leaving blue states and relocating to Texas. The people who claim to measure these things say more jobs have been created in Texas since the bust than the rest of the states combined.

But, it is a very weird place with a distinct third world vibe to its politics. This story is a good example. The local DA gets drunk and decides to drive around, getting caught by the cops eventually. Anywhere else, even deep blue states like Massachusetts, the DA would have resigned. If not, then the rest of the crooks would have backed efforts like Perry’s in order to force the issue.

Not Texas.

A Travis County grand jury Friday indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two charges related to his effort last year to force District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign after her drunken driving arrest.

Grand jurors charged Perry, 64, with abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, and coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony. The first charge carries a punishment of 5-99 years and a fine of up to $10,000. The second charge is punishable by 2-10 years and a fine of up to $10,000.

The indictment stems from Perry’s threat last summer to withhold $7.5 million in state money from Lehmberg’s office unless she step down – a threat he later carried out by vetoing an appropriation in the state budget.

Mary Anne Wiley, General Counsel for Perry, said in a statement following the indictment: “The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution. We will continue to aggressively defend the governor’s lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail.”

Immediately, after the indictment was announced, Perry, who is poised to make a second run for president, tweeted: “Help RickPAC elect candidates who support a strong border, new jobs, smaller gov’t, and fiscal responsibility.”

The special prosecutor in the case, San Antonio attorney Michael McCrum, said he was confident with the strength of the charges filed against Perry.

“There has been an immense amount of work that has gone into my investigation up until this point,” he told reporters after announcing the indictment. “I have interviewed over 40 people who were related in some way to the events that happened.”

He later added: “I looked at the law. I looked at the facts. and I presented everything possible to the grand jury.”

This is the same court that hounded Tom DeLay out of office. A lunatic named Ronnie Earle terrorized the state for years, abusing his office with the full support of the kooks in Travis County.

Asked about his thoughts of Perry’s ability to do his job as governor, McCrum said: “I took into account the fact that we’re talking about the governor of a state and a governor of the state of Texas, which we all love. Obviously that carries a level of importance, but when it gets down to it, the law is the law, and the elements are the elements.”

McCrum said he will speak with Perry’s lawyers Monday to arrange for the governor to be booked and formally notified in court of the charges against him.

Ray Sullivan, a former chief of staff to the governor who served as his spokesman when he ran for the 2012 presidential nomination, said of the indictment, “I think it certainly will be a big deal with the liberal media – Slate, Salon – and therefore for the national media. It is beyond ridiculous that Travis County is pursuing the governor, after letting the seriously drunk, police-disrespecting DA stay in office.”

Some Democrats were calling for Perry to step down.

Again, you see the weirdness of Texas. Anywhere else this either gets laughed out of court or laughed off the stage. In Texas, it is how they do politics. I wonder if it is the unusual combination of people. If you look at this great map from American Nations, you see Texas is a mix of independent Mexicans, chaos-loving Scots-Irish and Anglo-Saxon rejects. That’s not the genetic stock one looks for in a stable  democracy. Great warrior class, but not what you want in local burghers.

Of course, this is a good example of how the lunatics that plague us everywhere are the same everywhere. In Texas, the abuse the laws and customs as we see everywhere. For liberal lunatics everywhere, the utility of the law lies in how they can use it to assault their enemies.

The legacy of slavery is primarily a two digit IQ. At least that seems to be the case here.

Supporters of Mireille Miller-Young cite the “cultural legacy of slavery” and even the effects of pregnancy to explain why the feminist studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara would accost a teenager spreading a pro-life message on campus.

The pregnant 38-year-old who pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of theft, vandalism and battery after stealing and destroying an anti-abortion poster and injuring a a16-year-old activist, says she’s sorry for some of her actions and hopes to “makes amends through community service.”

An associate professor whose course work, which includes pornography and sex work, has gained her the nickname the “porn professor,” Ms. Miller-Young was set to appear for sentencing today (August 14) before Judge Brian Hill in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.

Think about that for a second. A university in a first world country employs someone to teach pornography and sex work. In fact they have a whole department for it.

But the hearing got moved to another courtroom before being rescheduled, perhaps Friday.

The News-Press obtained Ms. Miller-Young’s apology letter, which was part of a package of letters of support prepared by defense attorney Catherine Swysen, aimed at getting the lightest possible sentence for her client.

Three months pregnant at the time of the March incident, a portion of which was recorded on a cellphone camera, Ms. Miller-Young states, “I wish to apologize for my actions … The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust group had a perfect right to come to UC Santa Barbara to express their views about women’s reproductive rights.”

“As much as the images they displayed were offensive and distressing to my students, and to me, I had no right to take their poster or destroy it,” she writes.

But the letter says nothing about the battery charge, which stemmed from Ms. Miller-Young scratching teenage activist Thrin Short.

Thrin’s 21-year-old sister, Joan Short, who also participated in the demonstration, isn’t buying the apology, telling the News-Press exclusively today, “I guess I would like to see her say to her students, ‘I did a really stupid thing. You shouldn’t follow my example.’ ”

In the video, posted online by Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, Thrin pleads with the associate professor to return the sign, at one point calling her a thief.

“I may be a thief,” a smiling Ms. Miller-Young replies, “but you’re a terrorist.”

She told UCSB Police that she was pregnant at the time and was “triggered” by the graphic images of abortion on the poster.

After initially pleading not guilty, she changed her mind and in July entered pleas of no contest.

Support letters submitted by defense attorney Catherine Swysen and obtained by the News-Press laud the respect and admiration Ms. Miller-Young has among her peers as well as her generosity when it comes to students.

Some of the letters were written on UCSB letterhead, presumably on university equipment and university time. Among them is one from history professor Paul Spikard, who states that his colleague is the object of “an energetic smear campaign that seems to have little to do with her person or her actions, and a great deal to do with fomenting racial hatred and rallying right-wing political sentiment.”

“It would be tragic if Dr. Miller-Young were sentenced to jail time or mandatory anger management classes based on the press’ portrayal of her as an Angry Black Woman.”

He cites no reports or stories to back up the claim.

Another letter of support, also on UCSB letterhead, comes from Eileen Boris, a professor in the Department of Feminist Studies.

Prof. Boris seeks clemency for her colleague, stating, “she was at the stage of a pregnancy when one is not fully one’s self fully, so the image of a severed fetus appeared threatening.”

“If she appears smiling on camera,” Prof. Boris continues, “she is ‘wearing the mask,’ that is, she is hiding her actual state through a strategy of self-presentation that is a cultural legacy of slavery.”

Pat Hardy, a member of Santa Barbara Friends Meeting (the Quakers) and president of a group called Alternatives to Violence Project California, urges Judge Hill to consider AVP’s conflict resolution workshops as part of Ms. Miller-Young’s punishment.

“These workshops are offered both in the community as well as 19 prisons throughout the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.”

Ms. Hardy says workshops in Santa Barbara are being offered “to gang members and at-risk youth as well as a widely diverse group of adults.”

“I urge you to look beyond the recent act,” she writes to Judge Hill, “to explore the opportunity for (Ms. Miller-Young) to make a change by exploring the world of non-violence within this setting.”

Joan Short said any punishment that doesn’t include some sort of broader apology to students, not just for stealing the poster but also for the physical nature of the confrontation, does not go far enough.

“Before, some of the things she was saying was, ‘I had a right to do this. I set a good example for my students. I was showing them how to protect themselves,’ ” Joan said.

“I think she should publicly say to her students, ‘I acted completely inappropriately.’ ”

If you look at the collection of crotch warriors in the link to the UCSB Crotch Studies Department, you won’t find anyone who majored in math or physics. As far as I can tell, there are no “right answer” studies in there. By “right answer” I mean the use of axioms and agreed upon facts. In math, everyone agrees on basic addition and cardinal numbers, for example. A “proof” is or is not correct and everyone agrees on it. In crotch studies, everyone has their own facts, most of which are imaginary.

This is why we have a trillion dollar student debt problem. A big chunk of that debt finances crotch studies programs. There’s zero demand for these courses offered by nitwits like Miller-Young. Students are forced into these courses to justify spending tax dollars on what is a collection of hens bitching about their vagina. Scan through the typical state university catalog and you find more worthless courses than useful ones. That’s being generous.

But, that’s life in a social democracy. The game is about shifting costs onto others through manipulation of the system. These broads are making lavish salaries by gaming the higher ed system. An army of worthless administrators fill up offices pushing paper around like African bureaucrats. The bill for all of it ends up in the hands of the dwindling number of people pulling the cart.

I was listening to the great Howie Carr last night and he did a segment on the Bob Smith-Scott Brown-Jeanne Shaheen Senate campaign in New Hampshire. For those unfamiliar with the details, here’s a quick primer. Jeanne Shaheen is a moonbat, who won her seat in 2008. She beat John Sununu, a guy who mostly got by on the family name. In a big Democrat year, weaklings like Sununu were easy prey. Now the shoe is on the other foot and a lot of experts think she is vulnerable. That’s why Scott Brown moved to New Hampshire so he could run against her.

It is also why Bob Smith moved back to the state. He was a senator from New Hampshire for a long time and was a reliable old school conservative. Like a lot of those guys he went slightly bonkers in the Bush years over the invade the world/invite the world stuff. The Bush people ran Sununu against him in the primary, thus ending Bob Smith the senator.

He’s now back looking for a little payback. He’s also running as the conservative alternative to the liberal Scott Brown. The Conventional Right and many Republicans are framing it as the imperfect, but electable Scott Brown versus the unelectable ideologue Bob Smith. Do you vote your heart and let the Democrats keep the seat or do you hold your nose and vote for the fop?

That’s the setup and that’s how the radio segment was setup. It was a steady diet of locals saying you take the best you can get and that’s Brown, because he can win. One guy said it was like poker. You play the hand you’re dealt. The ideologues just keep folding because they don’t get the hand they want. The fact that the analogy works better the other way was not noticed by the host or the callers.

One guy, a libertarian, made a try at arguing against voting for the least worst option, but the host was having none of it. The belief that libertarians are sympatico with conservatives is a mistake, I think. Libertarians have more in common with the Left than the Right, when it comes to these things. The called simply could not get his mind around the idea of taking half a loaf rather than no loaf.

As for the race, I’m not sure why anyone thinks Brown can win. Current polling has him trailing badly. It is still early and the last polls are over a month old. The immigration issue will put a dent in Shaheen’s support. Brown is up with ads bashing Shaheen’s record on immigration. Plus, he has been a late bloomer because he is a nice guy. He gets a late push from the undecided voter who finds him pleasant.

On the other hand, New Hampshire is a weird state. They hate outsiders almost as much as West Virginians. The people Brown needs to win are not going to see him as a local. Instead they will see him as a turd sandwich from Massachusetts and just stay home. That throws the whole argument about Smith and Brown out the window. If the choice is a turd sandwich that can’t win and the true blue conservative who can’t win, you send a message.

One argument in the segment got my attention. It is an oldie I first recall hearing in the 70’s. That is, a guy who votes your way half the time is better than a guy who votes against you all the time. It sounds reasonable, which is why the liberal wing of the GOP always says it. A caller put it this way. “Brown will only screw me half the time, while Shaheen will screw me all the time.”

Again, that sounds good until you think about it. What if, as has been the case with the GOP, those issues they fuck you on are the big ones? Sure, the GOP has been pretty good about cutting taxes on rich people, but so what? Since Reagan burst on the scene, the Federal state has grown bigger, more intrusive and more expensive. For fiscal year 1980, the total outstanding Federal debt was $908 Billion. When Bush the Minor left office it was $9 Trillion.

The size and scope of the Federal state has grown geometrically since 1980. Gun laws? We have more of them. Tax laws? We have quadrupled the size of the tax code. Immigration? There were 3 million illegals here in 1986 at the time of the amnesty. We have 30 million illegals and more flooding over the border. Regulations? The code is five times larger than it was in 1980. Culture? In the 80’s Eddie Murphy was making jokes about homosexuals and AIDS. Today they put you in jail for it.

I could go on, but the point is obvious. The “half-fucked” strategy is not working. If the guys arguing in favor of accepting half a rape could point to some success, then maybe they would not have to counsel laying down and quietly taking it. No matter how you feel about your favorite Republican, the evidence says the GOP is never going to beat the Liberal Democrats at anything. Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, is not madness. It is stupidity.

Take a look at the Left. In the 1990’s they did not like the direction of their party so they started backing the Green Party. It cost them some elections. It may have even put Bush in the White House. But, the result was a far more liberal party. The Democrat Party is now wholly owned by the Left. Maybe the Right should take the same approach. Getting raped by a liberal Republican is no better than getting raped by a liberal Democrat. Maybe losing a few elections will force the Republicans to change as it forced the Democrats to change.

I’ve been reading Karl Denninger for years. He used to turn up on a radio program I liked and he was always very good. Denninger is right about a lot of things. He’s also a very weird man. Listening to him on the radio, I got the sense it took a maximum effort to will himself into a zone within striking distance of normal. At any moment, the string could snap and he would spiral into lunacy.

I know, I know. That’s mean spirited of me, but what can I say? I’m an asshole that way.

I looked at his site over my eggs this morning, as is my habit, and I was puzzled by this post.

I’ve posted a handful of locked-comment Tickers lately (yes, I still do add features once in a while to the software, and this is one of the recent additions — the ability to pre-lock a submission so it’s read-only.  Fancy that.) and have had a couple of people ask via an invite-only BBM channel I set up “what’s dat.”

The software he uses is awful. I rarely look at the comments, so I did not notice he was blocking comments. Denninger is terribly thin skinned so the comments are heavily regulated and salted with his rantings about comments he does not like. His obsessing over it is very weird to me. The fact that he has an invite-only Blackberry channel is hilarious. It’s like grown men building a tree house.

The rest of the post has nothing to do with the first graph so maybe his meds kicked in at that point. Anyway, I wonder if his crankiness has something to do with over compensating. If you look at his bio on Wikipedia, there is a summary of his business career. Like Mark Cuban, Denninger got rich from the free money era, without ever creating much of any value. Further, his company could only exist because he got a government contract. Now he is a retired guy ranting about the excesses of government and the excesses of money creation. The word hypocrite comes to mind.

Denninger would not be the first person driven mad by the realities of his own life. Not that it troubles me. Security firms often employ criminals who use their expertise in crime to help build better security systems. I once worked with a former car thief. Our job was to repossess cars. Jose was an expert on finding the cars and, of course, boosting them before the bad guys found out what was happening. Denninger knows how government awards contracts and he knows how fake money works. His insights, therefore, are useful.

So, you think your vote counts. You’ve been one of those guys lecturing me for years about voting for the most rightward leaning viable candidate. Me voting for a third party was just voting for the bad guys, by taking a vote away from the viable alternative. Maybe you write checks to the GOP or volunteering to work for a local candidate. You really think it matters. If you just keep trying, things will turn and the pols will pass the right measures and turn the country to the better.

Well, you’re an idiot.

A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

The startling study, titled “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens,” is slated to appear in an upcoming issue of Perspectives on Politics and was authored by Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Professor Benjamin Page. An early draft can be found here.

Noted American University Historian Allan J. Lichtman, who highlighted the piece in a Tuesday article published in The Hill, calls Gilens and Page’s research “shattering” and says their scholarship “should be a loud wake-up call to the vast majority of Americans who are bypassed by their government.”

The statistical research looked at public attitudes on nearly 1,800 policy issues and determined that government almost always ignores the opinions of average citizens and adopts the policy preferences of monied business interests when shaping the contours of U.S. laws.

The study’s findings align with recent trends, where corporate elites have aggressively pursued pro-amnesty policies despite the fact that, according to the most recent Reuters poll, 70% of Americans believe illegal immigrants “threaten traditional U.S. beliefs and customs,” and 63% believe “immigrants place a burden on the economy.”

The solution, say the scholars, is a reinvigorated and engaged electorate.

“If policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened,” conclude Gilens and Page.

I’m always amused by how the word “democracy” is tossed around these days. It is never used to mean “the people voting.” Instead, it is used to mean the people getting the result some scold thinks is the right result. When Muslims vote for Sharia, no one celebrates democracy in action. When the extremist right wing extremists of the most extreme kind win an election, we hear that democracy is under assault. These days, democracy is about the result and not the process.

But, that’s just another example of the idiocy of our age. Democracy is a process and a shabby one. One reason our government has grown increasingly corrupt over the last century is we have more democracy, not less. In 1914, Senators were still selected by their state’s legislatures. Blacks and women were barred from voting in many states. The poor and the stupid were discouraged from voting. Like or not, you had a better class of voter 100 years ago.

That’s why the average voter counted for much more than it does today. The typical Congressman knew he was being judged by a reasonably intelligent electorate. There were plenty of dopes, but the ratios made it hard to fool the majority most of the time. Today, cobbling together a majority of mental midgets is too easy.

Even if the people were geniuses, democracy is no way to run a country. It works fine in the town and village. It may even work fine in a city or county. Once you get to the state level it starts to fall apart, which is why state’s have legislatures, constitutions and governors. At the national level it becomes a beauty contest. Obama beat Clinton because young and charming beats old and cranky. Obama beat McCain because young and charming beats old and cranky. Plus, it was his team’s turn.

It’s why I’m a localist. Even a nitwit can figure out if his local school is running properly. He can see if the roads are paved and the sidewalks are in good condition. He can figure this stuff out and translate that to picking the right mayor or the right town council member. If the mayor or town council ignores the people, the people can go to their house and beat the hell out of them.

It is not perfect, nothing is, but keeping the important decisions down at the local level means you don’t have to worry about whether the rulers, 3,000 miles away, are doing what you want. When I say important decisions, I mean the bread and butter stuff. The national government has to handle foreign policy and trade, but that’s about it. Everything else can be handled at the local level.

I was never a big fan of Robin Williams. His TV show, Mork & Mindy, was funny for a sitcom, but it was so long ago I no longer remember much about it. I think one of the stars was murdered by a stalker. None of his movies jump out to me as memorable. People tell me Goodwill Hunting is great, but I never watched it. My taste in movies is limited to sci-fi and classic westerns these days so I will not be watching it anytime soon. These things are a matter of taste and for whatever reason Robin Williams never did anything for me.

The public reaction to his decision to kill himself is interesting to me. I read a lot of sites and always read the comments. I can’t recall the last time I saw a reference to Robin Williams. Yet, it seems everyone is now commenting upon the guy, as if he was a national treasure, who died after a heroic fight with cancer. Because he was  weird and deeply troubled comic, everyone is trying to draw lessons from his death, other than the fact he was a deeply disturbed person who killed himself.

This story about his money trouble is not terribly flattering.

Robin Williams‘ tragic death at age 63 came as a shock to the world who knew him only as a lovable comic figure. But a source close to the Mrs. Doubtfire star tells RadarOnline.com that in addition to his addiction struggle, the actor recently confided to a family friend that he had “serious money troubles,” and was worried about his family’s financial security.

According to a family friend who had spoken to Williams recently, “All he could talk about were serious money troubles. There were clearly other issues going on and Robin sounded distant during the telephone conversation. Robin was known for being so generous to his friends and family during the height of his success, and would help anyone out that needed it.”

“There was also frustration that Robin expressed at having to take television and movie roles he didn’t want to take, but had to for the paycheck,” the source said, referencing his recently announced decision to film Mrs. Doubtfire 2. “Doing sequels was never Robin’s thing, and he wasn’t that excited at having to reprise the role of Mrs. Doubtfire, which was scheduled to start filming later this year.”

Robin Williams made an enormous amount of money so it took an enormous amount of effort to squander it. Most people in serious money trouble are worried about making rent and buying food. Williams was worried about making a sequel. A lot of people in my neighborhood would give their left nut to be so burdened. I’m sure suicide sounded like a great way out his troubles, but is hard to see how that is going to help his family. Thanks to his selfish act, they are facing even bigger financial problems.

Then again, maybe they are relieved of a greater burden now. That is the thing seldom discussed about suicides. The people who do it are usually a burden on their families and friends for a long time. Their constant depression and demands for attention put a lot of pressure on everyone around them. It is very frustrating for family. They try to help the person, but there is little they can do but suffer along with them. Inevitably, there’s a fair amount of bitterness and resentment. When the suicide happens, that resentment often turns to guilt.

When I was a kid I stopped a family member from killing themselves. They were on some sort of meds and tried to swallow the whole bottle. I’ll never know if they staged it so I would stop them or it was just dumb luck. Either way, I forever resented that person afterward. Even as a kid it struck me that the person was being horribly selfish. There are some things you can never ask of another person. If you do, you fail at the basic human contract, the unwritten and unspoke agreement.

I suppose that’s why I can’t muster much sympathy for Robin Williams. Even if I was a fan, I’d still be thinking about his poor family and the horrible things he put them through and what he has done as his final act. The man leaves three kids who will forever be haunted by the fact their father killed himself. It’s hard to respect a man who does such a thing.

Then there is the proportionality. Robin Williams was a comic and an actor. Nothing wrong with it, but not one single life on this planet would be significantly altered if he had decided to be a plumber. If Obama drops dead, the world changes in a big way. If a famous scientist dies, then we have a great life worthy of mourning. If my doctor drops dead, a whole lot of people he helped will have lived richer, fuller lives because he chose to be a doctor. That’s worth remembering. The death of a man who got rich pretending to be someone else is just not that big of a deal.