Thank you for pointing this out. The knee jerk comments that "consenting adults can do whatever as long as they are not breaking the law" make me wonder about people's professionalism. In this case, as you and other point out, the agents were violating their employment contracts, weakening national security, but…

Oh, Howard, at your age you should know that you can only take jobs that require you to be an asshole 24/7. Everything else is just too stressful.

I didn't think that it might be a kid. I hope you are right, because if he's actually a grown man, he needs intervention.

I don't agree with the way benedict_ahnold phrased it, but I do think it's OK for Medical Boards should have a couple of non-MDs on it (albeit not priests). MDs are taught ethics, but from all appearances, it's a growing field and I doubt all practitioners can keep up on ethical debates around the proliferating…

This seriously needs to be in #tips as a post suggestion. Let all the drama queens show their first stylin's.

I totally get why Rob Van Winkle can't deal, because he really hasn't carved out another space for himself. Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg have both gone on to really impressive careers, so why MM can't just get some humor about it is beyond me.

Wait, he made you eat bugs? Was that supposed to be funny?

I'm keeping that Joe Solomese quote for the next fight I have about this on Gawker—every time a gay marriage post goes up, several people will post how angry/disappointed/upset they are that Prop 8 passed because of black people. Because it couldn't have been the Mormons or the 93.8% of other people who lived in the…

Apropos of nothing, is that Kristen Stewart next to Chris Rock? I'm wondering if she has work at looking that diffident all the time. Can't even muster a little smile for the Chris Rock joke?

It was more weird & horribly painful than terrifying—you could actually see it spreading out from what looked like a bug bite. Luckily it was caught VERY early. The MDs used the scientific term and by the time someone told me that was the same thing as "flesh-eating bacteria" I had already taken the first round of…

I guess I must be the sluttiest of sluts, because even if the skirt was up with the waistband above her navel, it doesn't seem, that bad. It's not skintight, etc.

I totally agree that its assault no matter the gender of the recipient/victim. Will also confess that I would have liked to have seen this guy try that shit on Jada. I met people who were in school with her and evidently she does not play.

I think they were separate. I mostly remember because I was treated for a flesh eating bacteria during that earlier scare and the Ebola news came out a couple of years later.

No, I remember the tabloids were full of flesh eating bacteria stories and then a couple of years later Ebola stories when that book, Hot Zone, came out.

Anyone else old enough to remember the flesh-eating bacteria scare of the early nineties?

As others have noted; this is the ONE case where this little platitude is wrong. DC gets the government it is taxed for.

My thoughts exactly. Hopefully the full Streisand effect will kick in.

Old whitey may replace honey badger as my favorite meme.

I'm surprised the related story links aren't about The Hunger Games.

You guys need to stop being mean to Ricketts, he totes didn't mean it. It was only a "proposal" and since it would only cost $10 million, it wasn't at all serious. [[thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com]#]