Sure, I'll play. Go familiarize yourself w/the tax codes on oil-gas limited partnerships in the late Seventies (under Carter, when Shrub got his start), and tell me why firms like Arbusto generally found it pretty straightforward to raise money, regardless of who was on the company letterhead. (Hint: investors didn't…

Lot of nice folks out there willing to give the son of a friend or colleague a foot in the door... no doubt about it. Damned few will carry a slacker or under-performer for a single extra minute.

Part of the confusion may be that the photo up top is not from the current performance: it's a publicity shot from a year or two ago.

Apparently Gawker Media style guide now calls for all weight-related articles to include a) a plea for greater civility followed immediately by b) a call to "shut the fuck up." We've had two today alone (Rich J and now Erin).

Always heartening to see the commentariat rally around the plight of private beach-goers.

"White Lady Fired by the Grey Lady"?

Always eager to see better... whattya got? Give us a pithy visual for sex between two consenting privileged adults of average body weight who jhappen to be redheads, say. (Let's defer to the more delicate sensibilities among the commentariat, eh?)

Trolling with your A-material seems like an inefficient use of time... but bravo for the line.

6.5/10 for trolling. Woulda gone higher, but you just used the exact same phrasing calling for climate-change deniers to be jailed. Mix it up a little, bucko.

Hmmm... OED etc suggest that "jury-rigged" has been around since the 1620s, while "jerry-built" appeared in the 1860s, then mutated into "jerry-rigged" at some point thereafter.

We always said "jury-rigged", not "jerry-rigged"... and "jerry" as a slur only ever referred to Germans (c. WWII), as far as I know. No idea how this phrase could be construed as racist, but I'm willing to be surprised.

Best fight at the Met Ball since Nan Kempner and Pat Buckley KOed Henry Kissinger.

Fifty-one stars for the article so far, against only 25 comments (half of which are equivocal at best.)

Mocking the English for the way they use English seems like kind of a low-probability affair, doesn't it?

Yeah, I was referencing your comment and the video content both. If you'd prefer that your comment be allowed to stand in magnificent isolation, I'm good with that.

In re: the ass-eating, my mother says that if you switch the charity to childhood literacy in Africa, she'd only need a $500 donation.

1) Woman sits on sex toy. 2) Has orgasm. 3) "It's about man-dicks!!!"

True. But this nitwit is gonna go after the base-end first, once he finally gets into a serious freakdown. You know it's true.

Tut-tut. Softball has a hard-earned, long-established reputation as a safe space for young gay women. Your hetero-normative assumptions are duly noted. (Though you do deserve some creepy extra credit for scouring the news comments online for clues as to the gender of the victim, I suppose.)

Might as well say what everyone has to be thinking: you're seriously convinced a female softball coach resigned over an "inappropriate relationship" with a MALE student?