Today in Moronic Memes #3

 

The warmongers are all a fluster, as they won't get a chance (for at least today) to send someone else to fight an expensive and dangerous war on their behalf.  So now they must criticize substantive diplomacy because Iran=bad.  Ironically, the neo-conservative hawk's disdain for this deal is shared by the very people they are supposedly worried about:  The Mullahs in Iran.  They are kindred spirits of sorts, after-all if you've called someone evil for 36 years; it's awful hard politically to negotiate with them.  

Today in Moronic Memes #2

 

Oh where to begin with this one.  

ESPN: World Leader in Scumbags

Yesterday, ESPN reporter Adam Schefter published New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul's medical records, showing that the player had his finger amputated after a fireworks mishap.  Does anyone else have a problem with this?

Medical records are explicitly private and nothing in those records is remotely of public value despite Pierre Paul being a public figure.  The only value here is ESPN Schefter getting to a story first and a conclusion that we all would have known about anyway after we saw the dude with a missing finger.

This isn't disclosure of a secret government surveillance program or corporate malfeasance.  It is publishing records of something that someone should have 100% expectation of privacy.  If you can't trust your doctors to keep their mouth shut then whom can you trust?

I haven't heard anything from ESPN yet on the ethics of this and honestly, I don't really expect to.  They only care when you call Roger Goodell a liar, a statement that is unquestionably true.

*Edit:  I realize it probably was not a doctor who disclosed JPP's medical records.  I doubt a doctor would risk his career for something like that.