To the extent Cohen is a practicing lawyer (based on the press descriptions of what he did, he wasn’t practicing law), he was not a criminal defense lawyer. And even if he were, it’s never a good idea to represent yourself in court, let alone in criminal court with substantial charges hanging over your head. On top of…

Nope, that’s way too low. I wouldn’t be surprised if their rates were double that. 

This x 1,000,000. Some really shitty people bought the magazine recently, and it’s the only thing the same is the name. 

Are you saying you don’t salt onion rings (or really, anything else that comes out of the fryer)? There’s nothing sadder than unsalted fried foods. (Well, there’s a shit ton of things sadder, but you get my point....)

a pilot whale died after being found with 17 pounds of plastic bags in its stomach.

Now THAT is a pretty fucking great story! 

Honestly, I think it has more to do with the combo effect. Don’t most people get a combo when they go to CFA (or a meal, in CFA-speak), or most any fast food joint? So the combo effect explains fries and soda as #1 and #2 because those are the defaults for each combo. The ‘entrees’ for the combos is where the…

I’m well aware of Africa’s size, etc. But the fact remains that Somalia and SA are on the same continent, whereas Britain ... isn’t.

It would not surprise me that he would brag about that. It WOULD surprise me if it were actually true. I don’t see Tucker being able to beat up a toddler, let alone a grown man.

Where has Jon been?

Ambivalent on the appointment, yes. You can take the position that her involvement with the RDI program is disqualifying, but to avoid hypocrisy you also have to believe Obama was wrong to have appointed Brennan as CIA director — Haspel was following orders, but Brennan was involved in making those orders.

Only the finest organic hydrocarbons....

I am ambivalent on Haspel. While I understand the opposition to Haspel, she has the support of most of the IC rank and file as well as many former directors and IC heads. And if Haspel doesn’t get confirmed, who do you think the next nominee would be? Probably Tom fucking Cotton or someone similarly abhorrent. So…

I’ve also seen a tachometer in an HUD....

a mostly African-American city elects a mostly POC government

Yep. A more accurate headline would be “Is there a product made from sheep’s wool in your breakfast cereal?”

Both great tips, and ones I follow.

You must never have been to a Nothing Bundt Cakes shop before. Those cakes are the bomb, and you can get bundt-lets that are ‘single serving’ (but that’s a biggish serving) so you can try different flavors. Three or four (that I know of) have opened in my city in the last few years. And they all kill it.

McCabe lied 3 times to congress already and they are ready to impeach him

So ... what happened to the rats? Though this article dances around the matter, it seems clear that the rats were poisoned by the bait dropped from the helicopters. If the rats had so infested the island they were a threat to other wildlife, I assume the population was high. So wouldn’t the island be covered with rat…