If I could give multiple stars for the drinking, I would. We should post a list of cocktail recipes, but I am pretty sure vodka straight from the bottle or lots of beers will be my eventual response to all of this.

This post on politifact has a good deal of background on that part of the issue (look at the date - a whole freaking year):

Sorry, meant consulate, not embassy - in trying to shorten what was a much longer answer, I didn’t proof very well.

Speaking as someone who grew up in an emotionally-repressed midwestern family, sometimes the most emotion we saw from the older generation came when we were all watching sports together.

There is a long list of the allegations and the documented evidence refuting/proving them here: http://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/06/28/comprehensive-guide-benghazi-myths-and-facts/211240

But it feeeeels like this could happen right now (hence my increased ice cream intake and obsessive news-reading) - I am not being sarcastic, it really does.

Same. The online stuff, combined with the fact that you can’t go to high school or college without getting some sort of “your online behavior is here forever” speech/handout/poster is one of the things that baffles me when we see things like this - presumably, if you go to Harvard, you realize that somebody somewhere…

I understand that very well, but in this case, I am only referring to the way Trump and his supporters brushed off the recorded conversation that reminded the media what he was really like and the way the women from the soccer team (very effectively) referenced the phrase in their reply.

Thanks for the link, I read the whole piece on the Crimson site - these women are amazing.

It has been d-bag central since the 1990s at least (grad school alum here) - once it got a reputation as a party school where you could get an actual education, rich parents felt okay sending their kids and kids wanted to go. Not that the only d-bags were rich kids, but they were the ones that didn’t have to work full…

I kept picking the Hawkins title up at the bookstore - never pulled the trigger, but will now!

BTW, YES to Bird Box...so, so good and different and memorable and scary as hell. Ghost Story by Peter Straub is an old-school spooky tale, but will have you turning on all the lights (it is a little King-y in the “old friends reunited” vein, but it works sooooo well). If you want just a really scary mystery that will…

Seriously, try the Eden Moore series - it is labeled as Southern Gothic and that fits. The last one just knocked me sideways.

Sorry, didn’t mean a thread with the intent to hijack - more like a post or forum?

Thank you! I had totally forgotten how much I loved the Hooters. I am going to go dig into my giant-box-o-cassettes and find one of theirs to play in my off-brand Walkman, once I find batteries for my off-brand Walkman. Maybe I’ll just go to YouTube (just went there - most of the first page of searches is Hooters…

LOVE LOVE LOVE this list! Gonna be on play for DAYS.

I was working on that, but I checked fivethirtyeight ONCE and now I am in a cycle of dependence and worried freakouts about Hillary’s safety and the accuracy of Rasmussen polling data that is going to be interrupted only by Halloween party cocktails. 

Everytime I hear this filters-turned-off-brain-surrendered bullshit I think I have heard the most stupid version of it...nope, always something else rolling up.

I love this and if the proposed Burnett, Waggoner, Conway, Lawrence sketch were done with her in full Norma Desmond costume, I would never watch anything else.

I would watch this sketch every day on waking and going to bed. I would memorize every word and every gesture and ask that it be played in lieu of a eulogy at my funeral.