"He's got until the midterms if the Senate swings..."

This sendoff is just, well .... "Winning!"

My, my, my. What might they be talking about here?

What do they call a "nothing burger" in France?

"racist, ignorant, and arrogant."

"and because the piece was so largely positive, we as editors weren't sensitive enough to the language being used."

As another poster noted, "It simply means that the more times you take a small risk, the higher your chances that the risk goes the other way."

Stunningly irrelevant, and a shameful attempt to redirect the thread away from the topic.

"Can one pay off their sins or not?"

So, the original title of the novel was ... Moby's Dick?

This is really great writing. And I think that the highest compliment that could be paid to you are the number of posters who admitted that you caused them to think a second time on the issue, and changed their minds.

Get bad gateway when I try to check

There was a fair degree of interaction between Asia and the West. As others have noted, some of this was trade via the Silk Road. So more about China, Japan and India was known by the intermediary nations than directly by the West.

Cartoons are supposed to be horrible. They let us, and especially children, deal with our worst fears and aspects and diffuse the horror.

If she wants to stay with a man who hit her, and who may hit her again, let her. If Price has expressed contrition and goes to counseling, let him, and restore his contract. Let him get on with his career. For now. He should be offered a path to rehabilitation.

So I guess this is a fucking story with a happy ending.

He's won if he allows people to agree that what he is doing is art. Even if you say it is bad art, you are no longer talking about him exploiting stolen photographs. You are now discussing the "merits" of the art, which is exactly what he wants.

No, I was thinking more how some insist that the purpose of art is to shock the rubes, and the more intense a negative reaction, the more this simply indicates how unsophisticated those who object must be.

Defending something as art is the last refuge of pseudo-intellectual scoundrels.

The headline blares "Discovered a rape room."