Exactly!

“Um” yourself. Atheism is not a religion.

Get it on the record! Always a disinfecting move.

This is why Mitch McConnell doesn’t want to make it easier to vote. Because then people VOTE and vote leaders like Hardesty in. And Hell, yeah, the racist should have been suspended right away, and fired. No pension, no payoff. That’s the taxpayers’ money they’re handing out.

The terrorists who did this are probably bragging about it to their buddies, and maybe they even recorded it. They will hang themselves for this. 

In what way does forcing an adolescent girl to take off her clothes “prove” she’s on drugs? The cops better open an investigation into the perv who decided that was the way to go.

I hope she doesn’t have any patients.

The most candyass, cowardly piece-of-shit excuse ever is “they didn’t mean anything by it.” It means the person who did a hateful thing got caught, and is denying that what they did was a hateful thing. It’s even worse than “...IF I offended anyone.” Fuck that shit.

I had that same thought: he’ll end up at a conservative, religious college...and that he will be anathema and shunned by some for the rest of his life, but be able to cocoon himself in racist/evangelical circles.

Jesus Christ. Who would not be welcome at Covington Catholic, because he looked Middle Eastern.

“you people.” (You mean, “We, the people?” Or just the white ones?)

He was on his way out as a very unpopular mayor when 9/11 happened. I think he has dementia now. That’s not an excuse. Some people with dementia can be worse than ever.

I fear you are right.

I’m sure the colleges he is applying to will take his maturity and grace into consideration.

I really hope he’s a senior who’s applying for colleges.

Blaming the kid because the official is “afraid” of him? Like the black fear that leads cops to shoot Black teenagers?

Andie McDowell was dubbed by Glenn Close in Tarzan. ;-)

Well, now that NY State FINALLY has a true Democratic majority in the Assembly and Senate, we have a shot at single-payer...though the health insurance industry is girding for a big fight!

Your story is so much more complete and a better piece than his...you’d think he’d WANT the kind of attention that would come with doing a good job. Have the editors at Thrillist commented on this?

20-some years into the league and you still have guys whose masculinity is so threatened by women playing team sports that they must reflexively trashpost every time the W is mentioned.