AHEM… sir… you're not helping the faith you aim to promote. Counterproductive.

buzzfeed needs a “fun” button to the reactions

Totally. We don't disagree there. While I happen to believe that raising the minimum wage doesn't help the big picture, my main point of contention is that the question being asked isn't a stupid one worth mocking as the original poster suggests. The fact that Krugman (someone I don't agree with, but certainly respect) addresses the matter, and doesn't outright dismiss it as rubbish, shows that it's not a question to disregard as absurd or inane.

Thanks for the backup, Chris. D.B.'s Mullet, you're simplifying it too much. (BTW, if someone's trying to move out on minimum wage, they're doing it wrong). Comparing us to other countries is moot, since other countries have a different set up than we do. Now, we can sit here and argue this all day, and you can absolutely argue that you believe raising the minimum wage is, in the end, beneficial to workers, as many do… but what I'm saying is that to dismiss the question posed by the Fox News reporter as stupid (in all likeliness, simply because he was a FOX NEWS reporter) is absurd. Whether or not raising minimum wages benefits the workers and/or the companies has been debated for nearly the last century. It's a perfectly legit question.

Can please we extend the death penalty to people like this woman? (and by “woman” I mean “woman who is most likely a teenage girl”)

Idiots, the guy has a legitimate point. Economists do studies on this thesis all the time. Nobel Peace prizes have been given out to economists who believed this. Minimum wage rates should never have gotten this high in the first place. A) About 80% of those who earn minimum wage are teenagers or adult children living with their parents, adults living alone, or dual earners in a married couple. B) What happens when a company is forced to pay their lowest earners more? If they're operating on a strict budget, they let people go (or decrease their hiring rate) and make fewer employees do more… or they cut benefits.

Go, Brown, Go!

I agree with Michele, this wasn't about transgendered people being “disgusting” (although that may well be the case to many people… it's entirely subjective). This joke made me giggle, but I've laughed harder at much harsher transgendered jokes on shows like Family Guy. But honestly, I get why you think this is offensive… some of us just don't care. Every crude joke offends SOMEONE or SOMETHING to some extent. I personally wouldn't want to live in a world where political correctness ruled to the point where we couldn't make fun of ANYONE for fear of being cruel. Hell, if we can't make jokes about something as transgenders, who CAN we make jokes about?

I've never been a fan of Letterman's but that made me laugh. That wasn't even as harsh as I expected it to be… pretty tame in fact.
And since when were we not allowed to make fun of transgenders? Is everything sacred?!!!

# 30 reminds me of what I say to people who throw around “you're going to hell” to small, stupid, trivial things: “If it's that easy to get into Hell, then that's where the party is!”