Strangely, it appears he was referring to Katie Tur’s new book. If there’s anyone that knows him well, it’s probably Katie. I think she’s spent more time around him than any of his children.

Believe it or not, Ryan came in as the savior of the House, the charismatic and brilliant boy genius legislator who could unite the warring factions in the House and restore regular order to Congress.

I had an endoscopy wide awake, with just some local numbing agent and the instruction to swallow a tube. It was horrible. I was young, didn’t know better (and apparently neither did the doctor).

Well a fishing net isn’t clothes so she’s not clothed but she isn’t naked because she’s got a fishing net wrapped around her. And she’s not in the road. But she’s not out of the road either because her toe’s there. And she’s not riding the donkey or using any sort of conveyance that would be riding, but being dragged…

Once upon a time, a poor peasant man stumbled upon one part of a very valuable two-part thing in land that his king had let him farm so he and his daughter wouldn’t starve, and he decided to give it to the king as a gesture of thanks. His daughter had a better grasp of human nature and logic than him and pointed out,…

“Apropros of not much other than the fact that Donald Trump really does appear to be a raging narcissist, the person who literally helped revise the DSM-IV says that Trump is decidedly not.”

The Harvey death toll currently stands at 70... that’s government inefficiency for you!

Today’s Code 45* appears to be the product of Trump’s subconscious musings while entertaining the visiting Kuwaiti delegation. Recent Code 45*s have been giving strong indications that Trump is becoming increasingly less enamored of the shit show that is his life since he accidentally got elected. There is also…

Update from Australia:

Honestly with all the Russia shit turning up in the last few months I’m wondering if they stuck their thumbs on the primary scale, too.

The Bannonites are an admittedly entertaining lot. I spent the better part of the afternoon trolling the wingnuttier among them, trying to get them to explain some nonsensical conspiracy theory that the government has created these hurricanes to control the population.

I bet if you told 100 Trump supporters that Obama issued that statement that Trump put out on Saudi Arabia, at least 150 of them would parade it around as proof of Obama’s weakness on “radical Islamic terrorism,” a term which, by the way, doesn’t appear anywhere in it.

Just once please someone name names. Like that heavy hitter agents secretary. Do more of that, not this. Because this we already know.

I’d rather roll back Betsy DeVos’s reign of terror.

It’s this weird-ass sort of eugenics they’re wanting to do. If you can’t “hack it” through their bullshit American hazing ritual — involving being the right skin color, conforming to certain cultural roles they want to enforce, etc — you just don’t make it and out you go. By removing forced protections, they’re…

I think it’s more that others would have intervened. She was the only one who stood up for the patient, no security guard told the cop to get off hospital property and they even let this on duty nurse get taken away from her duties. Now they’d have to get a warrant or the patient’s permission ahead of time and show…

Because cops here believe they exist to protect each other instead of serving the public. It’s them against us so regardless of our innocence, we’re all suspects until we prove otherwise.

Perhaps the front page shouldn’t be a gif of someone dying. I’ve watched the video, and know that you don’t actually see the person, but figure it should be the choice of the reader/viewer whether or not they want to watch an explosion where they know someone dies.

Why are US police so violent towards everybody? Are they afraid? Insecure? Misogynists? Wannabe-army? What’s wrong with them? The police in the UK would never handle a sober, non-aggressive, non-violent suspect in this manner, let alone another member of an emergency service. In the UK this would be big news, and…

“Wubbels is waiting to file any sort of legal action against the police department, citing a belief “in the goodness of society,” and hopes that the department will take the necessary action for growth and re-education...”