Water from the bays flows out into the coastal zone. There would be some dilution, of course, depending on the proximity of the bays to the beaches. Even given that, people in that region are contacting the water regularly.

...and they pay through the nose to live there, too.

CNN is reporting that some of the Australian athletes did evacuate for the fire but returned to their rooms to find that they’d been robbed of a laptop and some team shirts.

At least Brazil won’t cap off it’s Olympics by invading an adjacent country and seizing a port.

Watch women’s boxing this year. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in London, the US’s first. She’s 21 this time and hasn’t lost a bout since London. Ms Shields is amazing.

Honest question here. Rio water quality is horrible, but their beaches are famous and appear to be heavily used. Are there a large number of people who have been swimming on the beaches who have come down with skin conditions, respiratory diseases, and other water related illnesses?

“When I asked him about Trump and Christianity he acknowledges that Trump “isn’t a great Christian,” but adds that Trump has “Christian values.””

Or something from the Ivanka Trump label.

Plus a paid vacation in Ireland.

I think the GOP one is potentially significant. Let’s say all the stars align wrong and somehow Trump is elected. He’s not going to want to actually do the work of president. He just wants to win the election, maybe ride around in Air Force One, and so forth. Either the VP will be running the country behind the scenes…

“Klayman, who is poetically described on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website as “a pathologically litigious attorney and professional gadfly notorious for suing everyone from Iran’s Supreme Leader to his own mother,”“

It’s just convenient that Duke also happens to suck.

That photo, the students all with a raised arm. I have many comments but they all end up invoking Godwin’s Law.

I think part of it was that that friggin football team had god like status in the region. Sandusky used that status over and over again.

I suspect that’s not an everyday activity for insurance adjusters.

At least one of the kids was abused for years.

I think it’s more that the insurance company told the University that they have to pay up themselves for the abuse during all those years where people knew what was going on but did little or nothing.

The TravelPro roll-aboard is showing up as $134.95, not $94.

The TravelPro roll-aboard is showing up as $134.95, not $94.

As well as an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

They weighed the pros versus the cons. Pro: get to be part of the Penn State football program and have your name associated with Joe Paterno’s career and legacy. Cons: have to ignore regular reports of child molestation and turn a blind eye to molestation is you see it yourself.