That dress is entirely about the zipper, for reasons that are not apparent.

Darn, it was such a nice theory, too.

“The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable.”

Well said.

Oh yeah. Or at least the handlers of Vatican finances; it’s possible the present pope may not know about it. (Though with all the past and present scandals, you’d think he would make a point to cleaning up the massive corruption.) Mother Theresa too. She was such a manager, I think she did know.

Yeah, actually you’re right. When I wrote it I was thinking of how much good even a fraction of his useless ego-propping stash could do in this country and around the world. Instead, like other Trumpite billionaires, he wants tax law changes that would strip away even more from the 99% for his benefit. Doubtless…

There’s an image! You know, it’s too bad that so much money is wasted on the rich.

I don’t think he can be happy about the way things are going. He can have fleeting days of triumph when a scheme to pressure or dupe his way into still more money and power at someone else’s expense is successful. He can keep score of his money and leverage and deals and connections and gloat from time to time, but…

Yes, this is obviously about deliberate pandering to a particular viewer demographic in a corporate publicity plan. Only this time their selected “most sexy man” is not only grossly unattractive enough to blow up their fiction of some kind of actual honest choice, he is also a misogynistic, racist homophobe in an…

ETA: The Daily Beast has an odorous selection of some of ol’ Blake’s racist and homophobe tweets:

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.

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…

(This is one panel from a Brian McFadden cartoon. See the whole thing here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/3/1712112/-Cartoon-Fox-News-new-lineup)

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…

Yes. Jerry Jones has long tried to strong-arm that, too. He still insisted that there was no evidence of a link between playing football and brain pathology after the NFL’s own VP of Health & Safety acknowledged that the link definitely exists: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2016/03/22/jerry-jones-doe…

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 New Yorker article cited elsewhere in this thread is fairly short and a must-read. (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/locals-were-troubled-by-roy-moores-interactions-with-teen-girls-at-the-gadsden-mall?mbid=social_twitter) The author talked to people from the town where Moore did his little girl-hunting…

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.

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.