In many cases, no, actually. Consider, for example, the many cases of police officers being removed from the line of duty while being investigated for misconduct.

he’s a multi-millionaire who married into money. That’s Lydia Hearst as in Hearst Castle; as in William Randolph Hearst; as in Hearst Communications.

Nobody needs to shed any tears for him.

Resounding “meh” from this SF resident....

I guess this is a thing now? Some animal rights activists here in Berkeley had a piglet funeral. But, you know, Berkeley.

Its a “narrow” decision because the ruling on this case does not have wide ranging implications. The ruling does not throw out Colorado’s anti discrimination statutes. SCOTUS ruled yesterday that the State of Colorado supposedly was not impartial and “hostile” to religion (although that’s highly debatable itself).

I found this cache last weekend and it’s basically all I’ve been watching. I remember seeing the un-dubbed versions on the Japanese channel in the bay area way long ago.

Can we just adopt the UK approach and accept “cunt” as a perfectly good insult for any gender?

Maybe it’s me, but I feel like the Berkeley E&J is pretty consistently tasty.

Yes. And Wu-Tang clan too.

Meh

There was also a vegan-based protest against a Berkeley butcher shop called Local Butcher Shop. They had “die-ins” (and weekly demonstrations) in front of the store where nude and ‘bloody’ protestors were just lying on the sidewalk.

Gore did go off into the wilderness for a while (infamously grew a beard), and got around to Inconvenient Truth in 2006. What Happened was 11 months after the election.

Agreed, this is the worst of the pleasantries. I have chronic pain and had a minor incident of cancer, so my default response to this has become “eh, still alive.”

1) Language is always changing. Somebody somewhere is probably wondering why we can’t say “coloreds” like they did it for years.

The folks in SF who live in the same block as the “Full House” house have been dealing with this forever.

A former professor of mine who was himself a State Dept vet, has a standing challenge for his class on intelligence agencies. Automatic A to anyone who could unequivocally prove that the CIA had actually, successfully, carried it an assassination attempt. The agency, he told us only half jokingly is “fucking…

Lol, that’s what you want to pull to paint me as unreasonable?

If you’re going to presume to lecture me on anything here, you’d better be sure you have your basic facts correct. Brennan is not a military general.

I mean, in my mind, writing the first sentence above was meant to head off comments exactly like yours. “On balance...”

Adding context for your benefit, I was at a graduate seminar in D.C. a few years back. Brennan, then serving as counter terrorism adviser to President Obama, repeated said claim about drones. After…

On balance, John Brennan is a good dude in Washington, who is very smart, and was very well equipped to lead the CIA.