They did. http://www.newsweek.com/201…

Ugh, people like that drive me crazy. I also get annoyed by people who say "Do you eat fish?" when you say "I'm a vegetarian." For some reason people don't connect "fish" with "meat" and I'm like "Well it's not a plant, so…"

Depends on how homogeneous that society is. If you've got any Buddhists there: probably vegetarian. Any Muslims: will probably avoid meat in chain restaurants because it may not be halal. Ditto observant Jews and kosher meats. Beef and pork are too expensive for most of the world to eat (and the globe couldn't survive…

YUP. I was a vegetarian for 20 years. And for the first 15, any time I said "No thanks, I don't eat meat" to some that was offered, it unleashed a litany of "Why not?" and "How do you get protein?" and "You know, agribusiness means vegetables too" and "But you're eating those fries, they're not healthy" and "God,…

And Mags Bennett made a killing off of it, that duplicitous villain!

Yeah, I mean it wouldn't cause his hard core supporters to abandon him, but it would have to be the last straw for any respectable conservative, wouldn't it?

Heh, that correction is beautiful.

He's responding to Thomas R, who is a conservative - he's said so more than once. If you actually paid attention to people around here instead of repeating the same 3 phrases over and over again, you'd know that.

That's interesting, that's not how I read it. Giuliani told the organizer to let it go, but I didn't get the impression it was his idea. And in any case, to what end? How does Rudy benefit from Trump getting more media?

I don't think mob ties would do it, actually. If he'd literally had someone killed, yes, but real estate development and the mob go hand-in-hand. I've assumed those ties have been there all along and no one's brought them up because the response would be "Duh!"

That piece was great, and kudos to Fahrenthold for all the work he did. The incident you've mentioned is unquestionably the most jaw-dropping thing I've yet read about him - beyond the racism and sexism that he's expressed and stirred up in his followers. I literally don't understand how you can be a human being and…

Happy Birthday!

Not really. It's not like it's rare to use them or anything. I never understood where the sudden contempt for this oh-so-common tool came from, except that it was mostly Fox trying to shit on Obama for any reason possible.

More importantly, he was on News Radio. As was Chuck D.

He admitted to using pot and coke himself before he ever ran for office. The Times ran a piece in before he was elected in 2008 saying the drug use was probably less than what he'd admitted to. A book came out in 2012 that said it was probably more than what he'd admitted to. So, varying accounts of the amount of drug…

The fact that he smoked pot and did coke was known before he was elected. Has it since been revealed that he did way more of it than he's admitted to, or something?

Oh, I completely agree with you that it's hypocritical. However, I personally would be okay with that if she'd done anything useful in this campaign. Since she hasn't, she should just have stuck the inheritance she got from her father into her local Credit Union and continued her medical practice, where she no doubt…

As I said a couple of days ago in WOT, she has defended herself quite ably on this subject, including pointing out that she's used her wealth to forward her political aims. However, considering the damage she's done to the Green Party's reputation, the planet would be better off if she'd stayed home and picked better…

Yes, it's the game vs sport thing for me, re: golf. It's scored on objective points, but so is Trivial Pursuit. It takes lots of skill and practice, but so does brain surgery. Basically, I feel like if you can wear a sweater vest doing it, it's not a sport.

I've heard that proposition many a time, but wouldn't that disqualify boxing? Or is the point system objective enough to skate by?