That was my reaction too! Love Blur and Gorillaz. Damon is criminally underrated, especially in the US.

She was amazing and I’m sure George would have loved it, particularly with the charming flubs but this was not the George Michael tribute that I wanted to see. Even people like me who know that song would have a very hard time identifying it as a George Michael song of they tuned in after she was introduced. She took…

Exactly. There are still plenty of state prisons run for profit. I was hoping since an ICE detention center would be a federal institution that they would not be able to contract it out to a private company but since it was as a decision by DoJ and not an actual law, I’m guessing that Sessions can reverse it all with…

Yes. But the Justice Department decreed that as contracts run out on private Federal prisons, that those contracts not be renewed and the prisons be closed. They were simply substandard and didn’t save money. I believe that by next year they would have been all closed. It wasn’t a law, just a DoJ decision so it’s…

DTW is actually the trust that he set up to put his assets into. Of course, he is still President, can fire the trustee and receives profit loss information. It’s totally inadequate for the purposes of conflicts of interest but that is the purpose of that company.

It is interesting because the Federal government has shut down (or is in the process of) closing all private Federal prisons. I wonder how these camps of Trump work with regards to that order.

How do the private detention centers square with the laws (I presume there must be something on the books somewhere) that shut down all private Federal prisons?

$10,000 bail for driving on a suspended license????*

I re-wound the part where Piers starts saying it’s not a Muslim ban until Jim Jeffries flipping him off so many times. This is the ONLY way I want to see Piers in my TV—being told to fuck off.

Right? At least W was smart enough to know what he didn’t know, to surround himself with people who knew what they were doing and to take council from experts. I would take Nixon over Trump because with all his faults he knew stuff. He probably couldn’t even win a primary in today’s GOP.

Right? In my experience cow tipping never involves actual tipping of a cow (can that really be done?). It’s definitely more about getting super drunk or high and wondering around fields looking for cows, but never spotting one.

That’s something that is very disturbing about the whole Trump so-called presidency. All previous presidents get briefings before talking or or meeting other leaders. They are briefed on how to behave without offending and on issues related to the relationship between our country and that of the person they are…

This is rather off topic but I am on an all female pub trivia team and a couple of years back, we played at a bar with TVs (like all of them) and an owner who was super cool about changing the channels on the sets for people when requested. Prior to trivia starting the TVs channel that was on started showing…

I think that the shit he was saying was obviously so ridiculous that nobody took it seriously. It’s not an excuse but an explanation. And they are just stupid.

I was so happy to see that they let Jamie have some facial hair in the new one. I haven’t seen it yet but for Jamie, it really does make a huge difference. Without he is just Generic Handsome Guy and with it he is just beyond hot. Also glad to hear that his acting is improved in this one. I still won’t pay to see it…

There is an article in the NY Times about farmers in California who votes for Trump and now are just *shocked* that he is actually going to build a wall and crack down on immigration. They say (correctly) that doing so would just destroy the ag industry in California. Guess they should have thought of that before…

And now they are doing the same in France. I guess over there it is perfectly legal for political parites to get donations from foreign countries because the far right wing party received a fuck ton of money from Russia at some point (CNN didn’t get into the details as to how this is possible/legal) and now there are…

Casting a white American woman to play an Asian woman isn’t the same as casting a black British man to play a white British man.

In a way that would be better but he just doesn’t do it because he can’t fathom a world where he doesn’t know everything.

I think one of the most troubling things to come out of that article about the conversation with Putin is that Trump does not get briefed either in writing or orally before making these calls. Other presidents did both, particularly with regards to the first contact conversations. So men who have, in general, been…