Her stance on hanging out with racists is apparently that it is the job of non-racists to stay friends with the racists in their lives and try to cure them of their racism, which she acknowledges rarely works. Putting aside whether that is even a good suggestion: (1) her ability to compartmentalize to the extent that…

So yeah, I have tolerance for other ideas.

This is actually an interesting question to ponder. Are they getting worse at it? Or, are they getting so good at it - that is, have they so completely dispensed with any notion that lying is something to be ashamed of at all - that there’s less and less reason to bother with trying to conceal the fact that they’re…

As a medical malpractice lawyer I often encounter doctors who decided (usually over some personal grievance) to go out and get a law degree. As my former boss once said to a client, seeing “M.D./J.D.” on a resume is usually pretty strong evidence that the person is shitty at both. (This was an awkward and embarrassing…

The Knicks have 23 wins. Six teams have 18 or fewer. There is no way that all, or even most, of those six of those teams are going to surpass the Knicks in the standings. For example, if the Kings win as many as nine more games - which would be winning at a higher rate than they have so far this season - the Knicks…

Today I learned that there is a person who chooses to go by a nickname that is pronounced roughly the same as one of history’s most ruthlessly oppressive, totalitarian spy services, who is obsessed enough with murder to throw herself a homicide-themed birthday party, and whom people voluntarily watch on television…

This is the thing. Even at day one of this administration there were opinion pieces in magazines - written by republicans! - saying “be very careful taking a job for these goons.” Now that dozens of the people who were were lacking enough in scruples (and/or foolish enough) to sign up in the first place have gone…

These people are reporters, not analysts. When they report an accuser’s allegations in detail and only briefly mention that the person accused denies it - as you say, with “[n]othing specific about his version” - that is their way of signalling that they do not believe him but instead believe his accusers. That is…

they will still use Maggie Haberman to push their narrative that bitches be lyin’

I see no problem in taking part in the interview. Note that not one of those reporters revealed that they did it until a week later. They heard what he had to say, concluded it was bullshit, reported the simple fact that he denies the allegations, and continued with their detailed and damning reporting showing the…

This morning the FBI director blew up yet another of their lies - that Porter’s background check was “ongoing” when he was fired/quit. Full background check was completed in July, there was some followup in November, and the file was closed last month.

It happened on twitter, so yes

They’re immigrants too - and they had it easy, they got to walk here

“My opponent’s parents think you should vote for me” strikes me as about the most perfect line you could deliver in a Midwestern political campaign.

(I would clarify that his reflexive use of the term “heritage” to refer to anything he thinks is praiseworthy is certainly revealing of his deep-south conservatism, which can’t really be disentangled from his racism - but if that’s what you’re hanging your hat on in decrying what was basically a throwaway line for him…

“Anglo-American” is pretty much the standard way to refer to the precedent-driven common law system used in, you guessed it, England and America. (As distinct from the civil law system used in continental Europe and sometimes called “Roman.”)

“Anglo-American” is pretty much the standard way to refer to the precedent-driven common law system used in, you guessed it, England and America. (As distinct from the civil law system used in continental Europe and sometimes called “Roman.”)

This is what blogs and twitter and facebook has done to us. Dumb people with half-baked, ill-informed, bad-to-begin-with takes think other people want to hear them. The same cultural forces explain why Steve Bannon can become an expert that we’re forced to hear from on political and cultural revolutions; why we have…

Fox News editor: Get these homos and darkies off my bobsled team!

The more these people debase themselves - and they all do eventually - the worse the next person willing to sign up for this shit is guaranteed to be. We’re one year in, folks. It is only going to get worse.