In keeping with the third-string flavor of this lineup, only the third verse of the national anthem will be sung.

I dislike Regressives in Oklahoma as much as the next guy, but your average Trump voter wants bakers to be able to refuse baking wedding cakes for gay couples, not stone them to death. It’s just a terrible comparison you’re making. Sure, there are extremists, but thankfully America is not at this level (yet). And we…

It was right in the article: “Your average well-selling new car usually spends about 30 to 40 days on a dealer lot. “

That’s only three cars, son.  Give it time.

Nope. Fucking with client money is one of the few lines in the sand that a lawyer cannot cross as far as state bars are concerned. The actions underlying the wire fraud charge is automatic disbarment, even if he is not convicted.

I wasn’t sure if this was supposed to be a jokey question but here’s a real answer: While surely alligators will eat what comes plopping into their body of water, the problem with these frogs is likely that they’re hanging out close to residences because homes have porch lights and bugs to eat. Depending on the area…

Agreed.  Calling it a “grift” in the age of Trump is an indictment way too far.

The core problem to me is that Merlan doesn’t like this “grifter”, doesn’t feel she’s earned her status and wrote a massively long hit piece about a drunken email.
It’s jealous gossip wrapped up as, what, truth-seeking?

I’m trying to see what she did that’s so horrible, beyond calling someone at work fat and some shitty tweets she’s apologised for.

Everyone fails a purity test at some point.
Constantly purging everyone for some evermore exacting standard of ideological purity seems self-defeating and a waste of energy, badly needed…

I’m really not 100% sure what the back-and-forth tone is doing here. “Is publishing this a good idea or a bad idea, who knows; she has publicly demonstrated a desire to change but is change even possible; cancel culture is bad, she’s canceled; I don’t want to insult her, she’s a grifter.”

She did dumb shit when she was 21 (or 20?!) and has perhaps...grown in the time since? And I know you acknowledge that but it’s a throwaway line in what sort of feels like a needless hitpiece? This isn’t Tucker Carlson being a racist misogynistic manbaby at 40 or whatever.

MSU reinforcing bad behavior when they should be reinforcing their seats.

He’s plenty smart.  Just not very wise.  

I remember this entire thing. Everyone thought she was just Jackson’s crazy sister, trying to piggyback his fame...talking like him, looking like him, ect. The talk shows and tabloids (which if you weren’t around then, it was the be-all-end-all of pop culture and celebrity news) had a field day talking about her, and…

Yeah.  Murderers just can’t count on states anymore.

this isn’t about scholarships, it’s about admission. Athletes are given preferential admission at all schools.  A kid at Yale needs a 1500 SAT but an athletic admit could only need a 1000. That’s what this is about. Penn’s coach took money to have a kid categorized as an athletic admit who was never going to be on the…

You realize this isn’t really about college athletics, right?  

It’s not that Bergeron didn’t want the employee to tell their story, it’s that she was paying him 50 cents for 2,000 words of it.

Dude’s committed to the schtick. Note the dates:

If you can't look at that video and see how ridiculous that is, I kinda feel sorry for you