No one should use phrases from another person’s speech without permission. Obama and Biden were roundly criticized with varying degrees of justification. Pointing out plagiarism in Melania’s speech now is not hypocrisy. Or are you suggesting that, since other political speechmakers have broken the ice, we should give…

Wasn’t there a time when one party’s candidate would go low-key during the other candidate’s convention? Is that kind of courtesy no longer possible in these days when every statement must be answered immediately?

I’m betting all the charms were made in China and the Trump campaign didn’t want to have to explain that for such a small business. She can start the business up again in mid-November — or earlier if she can find a US factory to manufacture them..

So what I’m hearing from Schwartz and Coppins is that Trump is Jay Gatsby and the presidency is the light at the end of the dock. I have a variant theory which, for a change, doesn’t require us to blame any one man other than Trump. Trump really believes that his ideas are better than anyone else’s, because he thought…

Lawyers take pride in representing unpopular people and causes. They can ethically represent the devil (“The Devil and Daniel Webster”) as long as they do not use illegal means or facilitate lies. A rich paying client can make a lot of pro bono work possible.

“...if you want to get rid of every single bit of racist entertainment media from 100 years ago...”

Vous avez raison! Je parle Francais comme un cochon malhereux. C’est affreux! Mais, si on a besoin d’ecrire un reponse commerciale, il faut employer un traduceur qui parle votre langue choisit.

Roger?

I sometimes think there might have been a moment early on when the All Lives Matter slogan could have been co-opted. “Oh, you say it should be All Lives Matter? Great idea. Glad you agree — all lives matter, including black lives. Cuz it doesn’t always seem that way when cops gun down black people for no good reason.…

Imagine the poor teenagers having sex for the first time with the exaggerated images of porn in their heads. It would be like letting them watch Fast and Furious before they learn to drive. Oh. Never mind.

Megyn Kelly is holding her ace card in reserve. Lyndon Johnson had a colorful expression for what Megyn has in her pocket.

Change the cellphone number. Let your your daughter tell everyone why she has a new number — or not.

I swear I wrote my version of this theory before I read yours. Then after I posted it I started looking warily through the remaining comments.

“...but this still sounds fake to me. The employee couldn’t possibly be more sympathetic, and the manager couldn’t be more comically evil and oblivious.”

Insecurity is the price we pay for the privilege of being alive in an insecure world.

“I assume people supporting him find most charities to be bullshit liberal operations...”

Ride together? Sorry dude, this bike only has one speed: 11.

You know who else has a problem with judges and wants to see them recalled? Conservatives who think judges legislate from the bench. Judicial independence is a valuable thing, and efforts to recall judges who make unpopular decisions will cut away at that independence, even if the unpopular thing also happens to have…

You’re obviously not trying to curry favor with Golden State. Let them just saffron silence.

Vick was actually a good example for argument purposes because I cannot tell you how many dog owners, men and women, pledged never to watch a game he was in. I’ve never heard them pledge not to watch a Jameis Winston game.