I hope the video actually exists, and I want to see Lochte react to it and try to explain his way out of it.

The story I’m hearing is that they left the party incredibly drunk, vandalized a gas station and broke a door in it, and got in a fight with the security guard (who was armed and pulled a gun out) when he tried to make them pay for the damage and wait for police. Lochte then told his mother that they had been robbed,…

If that’s the impression I am giving off, I will reflect and try to change my attitude in the future, as that’s certainly not what I intend to say.

Oh please. Knock it off with the self-righteousness. The only way you could say “50% of the Brazilian population is black” is if you assume, as many people seem to do, that everyone who is classified as “mixed race” in Brazil is a person who has mixed African/European ancestry. Some of them do, for sure, but a lot of,…

Considering that the 2010 census says that Afro-Brazilians make up slightly less than 8% of the population I have absolutely NO idea where you got the 50% number from...

Apparently they’re claiming it happened around Lagoa/Leblon/Gávea, which tbh doesn’t make very much sense. Those are wealthy, safe neighborhoods where violent crime isn't common. The idea that a gang of armed robbers pretending to be police officers would be lying in wait in those areas of Rio is frankly kind of…

While I don’t doubt that they were robbed, the police are absolutely right to question their story since it doesn’t add up... unless they got off the highway and purposefully went into a slum, the route from the party they were at in Lagoa to the Olympic Village is either a. Highway or b. Big, well-lit, busy roads in…

I agree to a point that people (and the police) can be quite victim-blaming, the swimmers’ story makes no sense! If they were heading back to the Olympic Village from the party they were at either they got off the highway and stopped in Rocinha (where I would definitely believe they got robbed at gunpoint, but there…

Of course the police are going to investigate! Lochte and his people are making claims to the international media that there’s a gang of robbers wandering around Rio impersonating police officers. Did he think that the cops were just going to shrug their shoulders and say, “well he didn’t file a report so we won’t do…

You were in Salvador though, correct? Salvador and Rio are VERY different places. Comparing the two is like someone saying “Well I got robbed walking around Baltimore in the middle of the night therefore Boston must be really dangerous.”

I understand what she was trying to do, but I think it would have been a lot more powerful (and make more of an impact on people who aren’t already convinced that the fashion industry is complete nonsense) if a woman who really resembles the average American woman (which is what, 5'3"/5'4" and a size 12/14 I think?)…

From what I understand, flooding and hurricanes are hitting Lousiana (and the whole Gulf Coast) a lot worse these days because much of the brush, flood plains, and swampland that used to take the brunt of storms and absorb a lot of floodwater have been destroyed and filled in... And of course, climate change is making…

I can sort of understand that viewpoint but the problem with it is that there isn’t a single place on this planet that’s free of extreme weather. If you tell people not to live on the coasts because of hurricanes and flooding where do they go? The plains? What about tornados? The deserts? What about sandstorms and…

Oh, that’s so cool! I am thinking ahead to Christmas gifts and know my mom loves cross-stitch, so thank you for the link!

Hey, you forgot that he ALSO finds the time to be both an incompetant idiot and an evil dictatorial genius! Obama is a busy man...

Sure but there is a difference between someone who is vegan and someone who avoids animal products. I think a lot of people who are avoid animal products unfortunately do not do their due diligence when it comes to nutrition (It can be healthy but it requires more planning than a meat-inclusive diet) which may be fine…

Yeah but there is a big difference between vegetarianism and veganism. It’s a lot easier to eat a healthy vegetarian diet than a healthy vegan diet, especially when dealing with kids and their unique dietary needs.

Interesting! I wonder about the difference between dietary beliefs that are religious vs those that are personal though... I imagine, for example, that kids growing up in a kosher family would have an easier time doing so due to an existing community, vs. kids growing up in a vegan home in a country where veganism is…

I know it’s anecdotal, but it does make me wonder about people who insist that their children follow vegan diets... the 2 vegan couples I know who have kids cook meat for them and allow them to eat all sorts of animal products. They want their kids to choose veganism later in life and not feel like it’s something…

For a moment I thought that you were saying it was 40C and was very concerned...