Isn’t this manslaughter? The people responsible should be prosecuted after a real police investigation. Firing them would not be enough; not only would they not be punished, they would be rehired somewhere else and go on to further abuse.

For Trump and Ghouliani, constant lies and contradictions are features, not bugs.  They attack the perception of reality, and for their base and too many others, it works.  Just trying to keep up with the shifting stories is exhausting and takes up time and energy that could have been used to go after the truth.

Me too. I assume she has poor on-camera presence and delivery. But she’s good as a Trump security blanket/reality insulator. He was sometimes abusive toward her as he is to everyone he doesn’t fear, but he missed her because no one else babied him the way she did.

Why? Laziness, lack of ethics, and expectation that they will get away with it.  There’s a lot of that going around.

Yes, I suspect that’s at least part of the reason for his unhinged attacks:

Of course that too, but to tweet about it late at night seems odd to me. I think he is blowing up out of anxiety and trying to distract from something he knows is coming out soon.

I think this late night Twitter attack on two famous black people is an attempt to distract from his own scandals and that he is anxious about a new damaging development he knows is incoming. I don’t doubt that Trump hates both men, but IMO this sorry gambit is a smokescreen.

The only entertaining bit in the Pattinson/Waterhouse thing is imagining their potential baby born with their eyebrows.

Her paternal genetic inheritance is very obvious. She is smarter than he is but just as vain, entitled and greedy.  

These horrifying but unsurprising stories are mostly about boys. Where are the girls and what is happening to them? There is surely a dark reason why news of what is happening to immigrant girls has largely been missing. How many will become not only traumatized but even pregnant -- and forced to bear children -- d…

Not a lawyer, but wouldn’t this open the police conspirators behind this politically motivated false arrest to litigation? If so, Avenatti was the wrong guy for them to incite. They are assuming they have all the power and their target is helpless against them, but she’s got a tiger on her side.  I’d like to see…

Nah, the “hair” is made of asbestos and he’s slathered from head to foot -- except for the pinkish-white patches around the eyes -- with orange fire-retardant slime.

I was in academia for some years before moving to industry, and I would agree with your husband’s description. It really does show what the guy’s warped, immature priorities are. Not subtle in any way that could be missed. And they all knew, on both sides.

Yes, I feel the way you do and always have. I would bet that even when Doctor Page has his car in for repairs, he has them call him “Doctor Page” when the garage phones him with a report. As I said, it’s a tell, and not a subtle one.  

Exactly. They are not only self-involved jerks, but when they are as obvious a fool as Doctor Page is, they are also vulnerable to manipulation by anyone with the inclination to use them for their own ends. In this case, he was a willing conduit and agent for the Russians and, I believe, for his traitorous US…

It’s telling that Page always includes “Ph.D.” after his name. I have a Ph.D. and know many hundreds of other people with doctorates. Not a single one of them mentions their degree anywhere but in job applications, official meetings with outsiders, and professional publications, where it is appropriate.

Pathetic and disgusting that it has taken this long for an NFL owner to respond to Trump’s bullying like a responsible adult. The contrast with the Dolphins owner’s idiotic, reprehensible, and probably illegal move is telling:

I still say that the winning image should have FIVE Supreme Court Palpatines.  

Here is a 4-month-old update on the continuing operations of MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station). After saving tens of thousands of lives in the Mediterranean, they are now concentrating on urgently needed medical aid to refugees in Bangladesh, already treating over 60,000 patients:

Good questions, but I don’t have answers. The troll was in the grays when they first replied to my post. I didn’t see the ugliness of their username, didn’t look at it at all, and I did not tag/dismiss them then. Their tone was sneering, though, and I didn’t want to ungray them.. An hour or two later later I noticed …