Genius.

If you can’t understand the distinction between a person voluntarily sending an illegally recorded audio tape to a radio station unprompted and Schefter cultivating sources that will access info and give it to him, possibly with inducements, there’s nothing I can tell you. Content to leave it at this: a judge decided…

Could you tell me where you think that I said that?

A civil internet discussion! If only Alpo Siberia was paying attention to us maybe they’d learn a thing or two!

The precedent that supposedly “established that the press can legally use illegally obtained information” is Bartnicki, as mentioned in the article, but I’m not sure that’s analogous to this Pierre-Paul case.

Not coming off dickish at all — I totally understand your point.

Publishing his actual medical record (or really even trying to work hospital sources) crosses a line.

Ya I understand that’s the point that has led to this debacle for Johnson. To be sure, a presidential candidate should know much more than me about these issues so it’s no excuse for Johnson. My main points here are:

Also the greys on this thread are tremendous.

I’m going to go with Keshawn Johnson this week.

I think I’m reasonably well-informed on national affairs and Syria and its refugee crisis and before today I would not have known what Aleppo is either.

Wild is one syllable. It’s double-yew (three syllables). This blog sucks.

Might be just an incredible appeal to my subconscious on Apple’s behalf, but I have a distinct psychological preference to text back and forth with someone who has iMessage and the blue bubbles. The green is Not Good.

This is VERY fair.

Plasticbrain2 has the innate ability to articulate what I’m talking about better than me.

I would submit that even something as recent as 1988 is dated in a country where there are at least a dozen states in the south that are overtly, proudly and nearly uniformly racist right now. Today.

The point is that characterization of Boston and MA in general is very dated and seems even sillier in a time when there are states actively seeking to effectively revoke voting rights for any minority group, and they’re doing it out in the open.

Nah, you’re not wrong. Tom Yawkey, all the stuff on busing, treatment of Bill Russell, and the perception that Irish Catholics are racist (itself a racist thought!) — all basically 25-50 years old at this point — contribute to this idea that Boston and MA is racist. Seeing how far the state has come and the generally…

No one thinks Massachusetts is incapable of racism.

Cited primary results since that’s what the previous commenter was himself referencing. The Red Sox refused to integrate under notable racist Tom Yawkey, which is where the perception of Boston sports as racist originates. He died 40 years ago and with the rampant racism flourishing across the country it’s bizarre to…