The Medal of Freedom has always been a weird jumble of people who’ve actually accomplished something with their lives, war criminals, the incompetent, and the merely well-connected.
I hope to one day do something important enough to be awarded the medal, just so I could refuse it.
Talk about cheapening the brand.
It’s interesting to note that it takes a heck of a lot more to buy a presidential medal of freedom from Trump than it does to buy a Republican senator.
Ha! Not according to orthodox GOP doctrine!
I’m sure she’s a lot more accomplished than most people but she’s got a pretty thin Wikipedia page for someone whose work supposedly helped shape the fabric of American society and/or culture.
Could we please not immortalize the 
in anything except history book discussions of notably awful humans?
Good lord, he looks like Jason with the inside out Shatner mask!
Seriously, though she has done some research in the field and is obviously sharp, I have colleagues who have more impressive research credentials and contributions. My cousin has published more articles and of greater import in the field of endocrinology. All women with PhDs or MDs. Rhodes Scholars, Carnegie Fellows, etc.
Your rebuttal does nothing to change the point that the “Medal” was bought and paid for.
[Somewhat off the main topic] Heavy on the athletes, yes, but I’m moved to mention that Alan Page of course was a valued player in the NFL as a younger man, and also had a long legal career, and served as a highly-regarded justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. (I’m proud to say that I voted for him.)
from Wikipedia:
In 1992 Page was elected to an open seat as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, becoming the first African-American to serve on that court. He was reelected in 1998 (becoming the biggest vote-getter in Minnesota history), again in 2004, and for a final time in 2010: Minnesota has mandatory retirement for judges at the end of the month in which they turn 70.
Because Scalia is one of the most consequential Justices in the history of the Court.
Don’t be too downhearted, remember that, as a BBS Captain, you are empowered to carry out online weddings.
@Brainspore Like “Quisling”, “Trump” is sort of onomatopoeic. Just as quisling sounds like a slimy collaborator, trump sounds like a pile of shite.
@p96 in the manner of, “You are worse than Hitler Trump”, with a redefinition of Godwin’s Law to, “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Trump approaches 1.”
My gorge already rose: when CIA chief George Tenet got it in 2004, after he was instrumental in fomenting the Iraq War.
I’m reminded of Elena Ceaușescu, whose scientific career was reputedly entirely fabricated.
Hell, you can practically buy a Republican senator with the change you find under the couch cushions. That bar’s pretty low.
Yup, but there’s two words there with more than five letters so getting him to understand that there is one is probably half the battle…
Trump, “Presidential Medal of Freedom, I like the sound of that.”
Aid, “Who are you going to award them to, Sir?”
Trump, “Well, me, of course! It is the PRESIDENTIAL Medal of Freedom! I’ve earned it!”
I am highly doubtful that tRump knows her as anyone other than Sheldon’s wife.
It already meant fart long before the shit gibbon got anywhere near the White House
