I don’t think you are taking into account just how persistent our security services are at ensuring their top targets find themselves staring down the cold barrel of criminal charges.

Pro Tip: if an investigation team is still litigating with a defendant over access to a trove of documentary evidence, they probably aren’t going to write a final report until that gets resolved ... at least not without an absurd amount of undue political interference in their work.

That was technically still pretty positive of Bernie in general. And it was a Hamilton Nolan piece ... he is definitely on his own island.

Hillary Clinton .... seriously? So, would you just have Splinter write nothing but positive propaganda on behalf of anyone who is a Democrat? 

But these anonymous stories—some of which are just plain ridiculous—do not overshadow the countless experiences of people on the senator’s team who she has been so proud to work with.

I’ve ended up in a place like this before - in Vegas (a strip mall even). It’s weird. Basically, the establishment acts like a normal massage place and charges a fee for the massage (the $79). You go in and start getting a normal massage.

Counterpoint. The thing that makes them exciting and special right now is that they’re willing to be radical. That’s literally their entire brand. Take that away and they become establishment politicians.

At least one lawyer on the victim’s side will almost certainly push to have the agreement set aside based on this ruling.

IMO, you should kind of be banned for meta-stalking across threads.

Jimmy Carter was a damn good president ... at a damn horrible time.

Trump’s foundation was set up strictly as a charitable entity. He screwed up mostly by not updating his mission statements to match his grafts.

Future presidents certainly aren’t going to jump and do your bidding if you don’t keep your deals to pay off the last guy.

Yes. Because Obama was always more than willing to accept bribes.

Not to mention he’s trying to seize a public park for the location in a completely sleazy deal ... where he ends up paying nothing for the land.

Not *just* a salad bar though. Sure, it *looks* a lot like a salad bar ... but this model has value added a crapton of low-wage employees to work all the tongs and such who put what customers want in their bowl *for them*.

We ate something that looked an awful lot like avocados that grew on a tree at my grandma’s house in Southern California.

In fairness ... someone clearly did discover him and officials acted aggressively before any violence.

Did she? That’s actually disappointing.

It’s not so much his shitty motives as his shitty methodology and obviously unsustainable (i.e. shitty) conclusions that I take issue with. Even the cherry-picked and misinterpreted data he decided to highlight doesn’t bring any real indications of wrongdoing if you look at it closely.

OK. I read all of that. Nothing really comes together.