"Amal must go rest her neck now. It hurts from looking down on all of us."/"She is effing loving her new Hollywood lifestyle..."

"... She looks like she knew the paps were coming. He looks like he knows she called them from the restaurant."/"I want this bitch's life, and I'm not alone. She knows it."/"Sure, why not, right?"

Comments at a Tom & Lorenzo post showing paparazzi photos of George Clooney and Amal Clooney emerging from a Beverly Hills restaurant. Tom & Lorenzo call attention to what appears to be deliberate posing for the purpose of displaying a handbag (which, once you think about it, makes the 4th photo ludicrous (in case you want something to think about other than how insanely good-looking these people are)).

"Why do so many people think he’s good? Have you looked at his paintings?"

"In real life, trees are beautiful. If you take Renoir’s word for it, you’d think trees are just a collection of green squiggles."

Renoir is considered a good painter because his work is featured in museums, [Max] Geller added. But upon further inspections of his paintings, that line of argument “seems pretty fallacious”....

The Renoir Sucks at Painting... Instagram account... has even received the wrath of Genevieve Renoir, who says she is the painter’s great-great-granddaughter.

On one photo, Genevieve commented: “When your great-great-grandfather paints anything worth $78.1m dollars … then you can criticize. In the meantime, it is safe to say that the free market has spoken and Renoir did not suck at painting.”

Geller, who turned her comment into its own post on the account, said: “I think that is one of the most absurd and insane arguments for anything, the idea that we should let the free market dictate quality.”

Ms. Renoir's argument — staunchly opposed by Geller — bears an intriguing similarity the old free-speech argument that Oliver Wendell Holmes made back in 1919: "[T]he best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market."

Would you call that — using Geller's words — "most absurd and insane argument for anything, the idea that we should let the free market dictate quality."
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