For once this is a sensible place to post stride mother spam. Can't make money selling albums? Work from home.

Well, that question was more of a game of "steal each other's answer." If Hil hadn't taken the "compliment your family" gambit first, Trump probably would have gone with it, and it would have sucked harder because he'd be telling one of the most powerful women in the world that she was a good mom.

Yeah, this whole "it's a ploy" thing is getting old. That dumb thing he tweeted at 4am? It's a distraction from what's really going on!

Yeah, I always thought the case against Trump as President could have easily been made solely with Apprentice footage. (And I mean the stuff that actually made it onto the air, not the alleged outtakes of him being a dick.) The way he stoked conflict, punished anybody who took responsibility for anything, and made…

I thought that false-flag JCC guy was in jail, but now he's obviously trying to besmirch the reputation of Nadine Troiano. It's not going to work - we all know she's a perfectly nice lady!

The elective action here is threatening to narc on the artists to protect the "commercial viability" of their own shows (as it explicitly says in the contract.) The law does not compel them to do that.

Also, it's that weird new extension to the 7 that goes to the Javitts center. If there's nothing going on at Javitts it would indeed be a ghost town.

But of course the alternative to that approach is not actually the converse. If "any lawyers among us" really felt compelled to make such an argument it would certainly prove my point that a lawyer = a person who doesn't get it.

Sure, but my experience is with lawyers acting as neighbors, with no client per se (though they will regale you with lectures about their "fiduciary duty" to treat you like shit.)

From dealing with the lawyers on the board of my NYC co-op building, I've come to the conclusion that a lawyer is a person who doesn't understand the difference between what you can do to people and what you should do. Basically, if you try to argue the latter, a lawyer's response is simply "the law says I can,…

The program is the virtual reality simulation that we all live inside and accept as reality, while robots use our metabolic processes to generate electricity. It's called Tron. Don't you remember the famous tagline, "Wake up and smell the Tron"?

Yeah, he lied about where his swift boat went?

Sure could. W invaded the wrong fucking country and had the poor judgement to declare "Mission Accomplished" right before everything started going bad, and we STILL reelected him.

Yeah, I mean it's pretty obvious he will revert back to being a complete asshole within the week. He can't help it and clearly no one is in a position to make him behave.

I'm assuming their rebuttal is going to just be "it didn't happen"? Hope there is good evidence.

Here in NYC the other big thing is stouts. (Here I am thinking more about beer snob shops and bars, not necessarily the supermarket.) I kind of feel the way you do about IPAs, only with stouts, which I really don't like at all.

My guess would be that if you have a confidentiality agreement, conventional wisdom would be to honor it, even if you are attempting to "own up" to what you did or whatever.

"So… it's got nothing to do with…economics? "

Yeah, I think this idea that you have to speak reverently about the poor downtrodden Trump voters doesn't really get you there either.

Meh, nice try, but let's parse: