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    I noticed that, like the disgraced Asashoryu, Harumafuji is Mongolian and that every article about this latest scandal that I saw mentions that prominently. Japan has a lot of anti-foreigner bias, so I’d imagine his non-native ancestry is being blamed by some as the reason why he acted as he did.

    Here’s hoping for his full recovery free of his genetic disease. Assuming there are enough actively translated gene copies integrated, it will be important to show that the integration is stable and also specific enough that misplaced insertions don’t cause later problems such as cancer.

    Wow, this is boggling. Sumo wrestlers are supposed to be paragons of self-discipline, and there is a lot of religious (Shinto) association with the sport’s tournament rituals. Yokuzunas are national sports heroes, constantly in the public eye. For something this shameful to happen, a drunken and nearly murderous…

    Oh, it makes sense. You just have to set aside the fiction that the People editors and publishers make a choice based on anyone’s honest opinion or any requirement that the designated “winner” be a person with an attractive appearance or character. Not only is the whole thing phony, its corporate perpetrators…

    The article includes statements of support that should not be missed. Together they say more than one courageous athlete could say with words alone. The last one is by 90-year-old “artist, activist, legend” Harry Belafonte, who has a long view.

    The egos of all future People’s SMAs will have to contend with being being chosen AFTER Blake Shelton. Talk about being damned with faint praise.

    Better that these devolved Trump/Hannity-worshipping primates destroy their coffee machines than attack human beings who dare to disagree with them. I hope it stays that way. They’re probably safer to be around with less caffeine anyway.

    I haven’t yet seen a quote from Pence re the latest Roy Moore pedophilia revelations or the desperate and disgusting enabling efforts of his supporters. I would think Pence is holed up in his holy of holies being as quiet as a stuffed gopher, hoping no one asks him so he doesn’t have to go on the record, but he has…

    That’s good news, thanks.

    I believe the Trump Administration’s failure to address the life-threatening issues in PR and the US Virgin Is. is not only because he doesn’t give a damn. I believe it is also a deliberate policy to allow plundering of the islands by real estate developers and financial operators to prey on the islanders, get them…

    Will the base care? From an article in the NYT (don’t have the link):

    ETA: the horrible Roy Moore, Alabama candidate for the US Senate, has just been accused (in the Wash. Post) of sexual abuse of a 14 year old girl when he was in his 30's. I posted about it and his denial (in Breitbart) later in this thread:

    Breaking in the Washington Post: Horrible ex-judge and Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of sexually abusing a 14 year old girl when he was 32:

    For comparison, the living South American giant river otter Pteronura brasiliensis weighs a maximum of about 70 pounds and usually less, so a 110 lb extinct species would be big. More robust teeth than the mostly fish-eating giant river otter too. From the Wikipedia article on the living giant river otter, which has…

    The ominous rumbling under Bryan Singer seems to be ramping up: