When Adam Yauch died I closed my office door and sobbed for 5 minutes straight. There's always going to be someone who means more than their entertainment or artistic value.

"Flouting." Sorry to be that person, it's just one of my pet peeves. Otherwise, agreed entirely.

Yes, I saw that they released a statement standing by it. I have to wonder how an editor ever let it go to press as written. If their high level sources were on deep background, they should have tried to get more positive confirmation from someone who would at least consent to be identified anonymously. Because as…

As I mentioned earlier, this story is pretty thin, and at least one other media outlet has now pointed out where it falls down:
http://nymag.com/daily/inte…

I had seen that suggested elsewhere and thought it was a bit too small a crime for the scope they seem to be going for, but I'd forgotten they were doing Versace's murder. If they're not going to stick to nationally significant crimes, they might as well do Harding/Kerrigan.

I think 9/11 still happens. Despite that brief, IIRC the major scapegoat in not stopping the attacks was that the intelligence agencies weren't working properly with each other, and I doubt Gore would have been able to fix that within nine months of taking office.

I've missed him a lot this year.

That story doesn't contain a whole lot of support for its opening paragraphs, but on the other hand there are no denials from anyone on the transition team either. I fully expect hashtagged refutations to start spilling out today, from people who refused to speak to the reporter in the first place.

To me he sounds much more like he's having a conversation with the guest than asking pre-prepped questions - that's what I liked most about him. It's great that Norton apparently does so much prep for his guests, but it has the side-effect of making the questions sound really rehearsed. That's no different from most…

You're absolutely not wrong to go off topic. Everyone here does. You're also not the first (nor last) person to give weekly updates on things going on in their lives.

Genuine question, as someone who know nothing about guns and has never hunted: could that not be achieved with tranq guns?

Right? That's the part that gets me. It's not like ol' Corey's wrong that a lot of these events are performing for cameras as much as anything else. But the idea that the guy who, instead of learning as much as he could about the position he's about to take up, went on a Thank You tour just so he could keep holding…

The response has been beautiful. My favourite so far is the woman who said "You realize you're THAT Judith Miller, right?"

Sorry for my ignorance: what's the legislature like apart from LePage? What happened in North Dakota makes me worry about the ways in which voters' intentions can be screwed over in new and horrible ways.

Oh he cares about red carpet people, for sure. Anyone he sees on TV. But visual artists, playwrights, behind-the-scenes folks, even musicians? I don't think he gives a shit. He wants to be at the Oscars, not at gallery openings.

I did not read this, but I agree with you. The only reason Trump would care is if the artists in question were part of the Apprentice crew and it was costing him money, and even then he'd just Tweet about how Arnie can't keep his people in line.

GWB was a notorious early-to-bedster himself, wasn't he? "Yeah, the country just got attacked, but if I don't get my 8 hours I'm useless the next day."

Unless you're Brad Pitt, in which case you deliberately take on the aura of your significant other.

What you need is one of those boycotts like for Hamilton or Starbucks.

James O'Keefe is apparently trying to doxx attendees: https://twitter.com/shannon…