Disturbia was an OK movie.

It’s all about you, babe.

No doubt. I was referring to you and me and most of the others on this site. Out in the real world, I don’t know what some of those folks are, it’s like they’re a different species sometimes.

And yet we believe in human rights and dignity. We’re strange creatures, man.

Sorry, I was being sarcastic about Gen X. But I was told that, frequently, by high school guidance counselors and teachers. They were so disappointed in us and convinced that we were going to be the ruination of America. And “slacker” was the specific word used over and over again, that we were lazy and indifferent…

You’d be surprised, you might’ve had more of an impact than you think. I grew up conservative and very skeptical of gay people, until I actually had gay coworkers. There wasn’t an “a-ha!” epiphany moment where I became more enlightened and stopped being a small-minded dipshit, it took place gradually.

Sorry, I was told back in the 90s that Gen X was the slacker generation, we can’t possibly have achieved anything.

How can anyone not be a misanthrope when you see reports like those?

Do you think that the mental deficiencies in these people are correctible? Some percentage may be actually mentally ill, but leaving them aside, is there any hope for the rest, the people who chose to be this way? Are we really doomed to be a country with so much hate built in to our makeup?

To Trump fans, anyone brown is either Mexican, ISIS, or a “thug,” unless you’re one of “the good ones,” meaning, appropriately deferential to whites.

See, I just tells those dern brain patients, I sez, y’see now, it’s all in yer head. And that just clears it right up!

I for one am just going to trust Dear Leader Drumpf that these are the Bad Hombres he was warning us about. Obviously their surgical skills and dedication to their patients pose a clear and immediate danger to the nation.

Yeah, that was what I read, too, after posting that comment. Some have speculated that maybe they’re still in the negotiating phase, so it’s hard to say where it’ll end up.

I’ve said the same. If I’m a prosecutor and I get to put away a national security adviser, I’m pretty happy about that. You’ve got to give me something pretty special to pass that up.

I’m sure he would promise to.

The NY Times has a rather short item on this right now that kinda implies that he asked for and was denied immunity. So maybe he doesn’t actually have anything juicy. That would be a bummer.

Precisely. Whether he did anything wrong is kind of beside the point now. Clearly he did. The question is, can he give investigators a bigger fish so that they’re willing to let him go free? And a national security adviser is a pretty big fish, so it would take a bombshell of historic proportions to make them want to…

The key here is that they won’t give him immunity unless he’s got something good for them. He can’t sign the deal and then say, “Sorry pals, I got nothing.” He needs to provide them with actionable info for the immunity to be granted.

Right? You can only eat a horse once, but unlimited sushi is ... unlimited.

Just remember, we’re all breathing the same atmosphere as Dolly Parton, so in a way, we’re all royalty.