What the hell is the point of this? Evoking a boxing movie? Are they trying to remind the public that there’s still a sport that provides a higher chance of developing CTE among its participants?

If that’s an example of the kind of pointless, boring, rambling anecdote that passes as a “story” for him, this guy shouldn’t just be thanking people for listening, he should be buying them a giant cup of coffee and giving them a fruit basket for listening.

Buchenwald - that infamous “Holocaust Center” - was liberated on this day in 1945. April 11th. No joke.

Given that the others involved here are United - which has quite the checkered history of corruption, mistreating passengers, and dog deaths, - and the Chicago PD - with it’s history of violence and torture - the passenger is clearly not anywhere close to the worst person in this scenario.

Here’s the real question - why was the gate agent looking so closely at how a 10-year-old girl was dressed? I don’t think that would have even registered with me. I’m a parent, and unless someone’s kids are dressed in a really weird way for the environment (swim flippers in a department store, snowsuit when it’s 80F…

Well, there’s a chance he had psoriasis. I do, and have some not-so-great looking feet/toenail issues. As a result, there is NO WAY I would wear flip-flops or sandals out in public. I have too much respect for other people. and don’t want to make them uncomfortable.

When it’s mixed with an aerosol that you can be exposed to later, it creates a powerful neurotoxin that’s absorbed through the skin.

I had a moment, seeing that picture of Melania Trump at the inaugural looking crushed after Trump turned and said something to her, where I realized you could make a Margaret Keane-esque “big eyes” picture of the moment just before that when she looked vaguely hopeful that he was going to say something kind.

Holy crap. That’s a level of “skepticism” you could look up in the DSM-IV.

And the emergency spillway has never actually been tested - they were talking to someone on NPR this morning (I’m forgetting if it was the engineer or the emergency planner) who commented that they never really had a good way to test it, and the emergency spillway design was something of a guess. Now that they’ve used…

You know, that’s a symptom of dementia.

Yup. After all, we really ought to organize society around the whims and convenience of the police, right? 

My kids (we have three boys) would ask questions - but would only ask their mother, only in the car (when she couldn’t avoid it) but only on short drives (under ten minutes). She’s a teacher, so generally was doing the after school drive the kids to activities thing. We’d explained it to them, but they would hear…

This is making the rounds:

In response to the “what’s in the Tiffany box” article the other day, I joked that it was a picture frame with a note saying “Help me” taped to the back. Mostly because I assume Melania never wanted to be First Lady. 

If you’re that guy, wait until you’re old, find Spencer in a retirement home, visit him and punch him again? If he went into retirement still preaching ethnic cleansing, anyway.

It’s part of the ACA coverage for injuries caused by a reflexive responses to a Backpfeifengesicht, isn’t it?

Yeah, my wife and kids would probably be on this dirtbag’s “peaceful ethnic cleansing” list. I’ve never punched anyone in my adult life, but if Spencer popped up in front of me, I might have to make an exception.

I think we can assume that she signed a prenup that included an NDA. Trump’s a big fan of non-disclosure. She likely can’t.

I was joking yesterday that the Tiffany box she handed the Obamas yesterday contained a picture frame with a note saying “Help Me” taped to the back.