It reads that way to me too, though in a sort of vague way. Like best I can parse it, “I definitely did some of the bad stuff she said, but she’s a bad person too because she contacted my wife on facebook.” Which maybe is a deflect and distract technique? She says multiple women accuse him of sexual misconduct, he…

And he had excellent musicians as guests on his show, talking about both the joy and discipline of music. Yo Yo Ma, Hilary Hahn, Bruce Haack, Wynton Marsalis. It left a real impression on me as a child. Not to mention recurring characters who were fine musicians in their own right - Joe Negri (as you mentioned), John…

Yes on camping gear, but REI doesn’t sell sporting gear for non-outdoorsy sports. I think there’s room for people to go to Dick’s for shinguards and cleats for their 5 year old for soccer season and buy their camping and paddling gear at REI. Not sure this is an either/or choice as the two stores do diverge…

BSA is not going to do a damn thing about this. The Girl Scouts might though. It’s worth sending letters to national asking them to sever the relationship. Girl Scouts are pretty damn progressive.

“3 out of 10. Would. Not. Fuck. I get the hottest girls. The hottest. Porn stars love me. There’s two kinds of women in this world - evil women and women I would have sex with. Love both kinds, let me tell you. Love them bigly.”

No, not at all. I just think his opportunities have changed. It’s hard to sneak a woman into the White House. Bill Clinton was actually doing work, so he saw people like Monica Lewinsky who were in the White House working and saw an opportunity. Trump has a) a WH that is pretty much all white men outside of lower…

The porn stars were pre-White House. His opportunities are a bit thinner in the White House than out. What do I know though, maybe it’s easy to get porn stars through WH security without the press noticing?

While many of Wolff’s claims are plausible, the affair one seems really farfetched to me.
a) Trump is an elderly man who looks like a walking heart attack. I’m skeptical he can get much going on in that department even with pharmacological help.
b) The list of potential mistresses is very short. It would have to be…

Someone needs to follow up on this to see if this check ever got written. Trump has a long history of promising benevolence and then saying “check’s in the mail” and the money never gets there.

Same.Never thought he’d last this long without Trump firing him on a whim or McMaster quitting in a huff. He doesn’t seem to have that jowly calm that Mattis has. You know Mattis is hating this all, but like Tillerson (I hate this world that makes me say anything positive about an Exxon exec), he seems to exude that…

Well, at least Mueller took that “drain the swamp” idea that voters said they wanted seriously. This is a giant “screw you guys, I don’t need you” notice to Manafort and Gates, which means some other people should be very, very nervous.

Pretty sure it is the latter. This is the “look what happens when you don’t flip” example for the other folks that are going to get caught up in this (ahem, Jared Kushner).

Law enforcement definitely favor gun control. Elected officials are often terrified to say they want gun control. I do think it is pretty unusual for a Sheriff to take this position so publicly. The Post had an interesting article on this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/16/florida-massacre-b…

Nailed it. You should have far more stars for this comment. It is a perfect distillation of both what Rubio said and what Rubio is. Well done.

Exactly. Many of the mass shooters have been loners and had pretty poor social skills. Many have been teen boys. Buying stuff on the black market is difficult and expensive if you have no connections. It’s also a good way to get robbed as you show up with a bunch of cash to meet a stranger who knows you are an unarmed…

TheBurnersMyDestination nailed it. Which personal firearm can take out a tank or bombs or chemical weapons? Our government has all those and if the armed forces turn on civilians no gun is going to be adequate to fight them.

There are lots of examples of Olympians who barely missed spots for their actual countries who could have competed for another country that they’d easily make the team for. Instead they kept working and got better and got a spot 4 years later. There are certainly plenty examples of folks competing for countries that…

I would love to see an article with a breakdown of estimated costs for her “dream” since 2007 (travel, “training” costs, the failed skeleton “dream,” competition fees, gear, etc.). I cannot even fathom the thousands of thousands of dollars poured into her “dream” of slowly skiing down a halfpipe for Hungary at the…

I would love someone with time on their hands to actually come up with a decent estimate of how much money she sunk into achieving her dream of very publicly skiing down a halfpipe.

Also, “if you’re a great athlete chances are by the time you’re 12, 13, you’re going to be supported by the U.S. Olympic committee” -…

Who decided to play this? Pence? Is he still there? I hope the team didn’t pick this song and if they did I hope they rethink that decision. This is a particularly bad time to play that song. It’s a much more loaded choice than usual.