People won’t buy art that makes them feel stupid, but at the same time they want to buy art that has some deeper significance - and odds are a fair number of them wouldn’t be able to figure one out on their own. The statement - the meaning - is basically packaging for the art. I’m glad she’s gotten to a point where…

Whatever they’re paying Sandi Toksvig isn’t enough. She’s a treasure.

She’s complicit. She’s continuing to live/profit off the spoils, she’s a fairly public figure and has done nothing to distance herself from her father’s tyranny. Such a move would certainly cost her dearly - and she’s unlikely to ever make it.

They were inexperienced in not getting caught, and on some level (delusionally) likely believed that they were doing “God’s work” so that justified this. TThey haven’t admitted they did wrong, really.

Went to a wedding like this around 1993, Halloween. The fact that a huge chunk of the guests were under 30 made it just barely excusable. Too much renfair garb.

Yup. Terrorism is only terrorism with certain motivating ideologies and/or the government itself is the target. Note that Dylann Roof isn’t facing terrorism charges.

Does Georgia drug test cops for steroids? If not, practically having erections may be all they can manage at this point.

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…