Tolerance. Yes indeed. Yesterday when I was on the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central and a budding rap performer decided he was going to gift us with a loud rap that would drain everyone’s attention from what they would have preferred to think about, did I yell at him and tell him to shut up and leave us…

This is an excellent example of a story that shouldn’t be repeated. It has no news value and is impossible to label as true or false. She’s not running for president. It could be typical of her conversation or a one-time dip into nasty that she regretted immediately. This, my friends, is the reason why gossip was said…

If you hadn’t been in the grays it would have saved me the trouble of making the same droit de seigneur comment. Here’s hoping you get promoted out.

I don’t think it was seeing partially dressed women that gave him a thrill per se; it was the feeling of droit de seigneur, that as the owner of the beauty contest he owned them.

“It’s very weird to me to use another culture as emblematic of some sort of ‘fighting spirit.’”

In fact an argument could be made that even in a long-term relationship, spontaneously grabbing a clothed woman by the pussy is unacceptable in the absence of an engraved invitation, and when naked in expectation of sex should be done only with tender care and prior notice. Leaving aside S&M relationships, which…

Figuring out what DJT meant may not be possible because he seems to have a radically different concept of meaning and how language relates to reality. However, it is not unfair to guess two things from what he said: (1) he has tried the sexual assault route (i.e., grabbing) a few times and sometimes women let him get…

I hate “slippery slope” arguments but I think Ashley’s proposal is an invitation to start down a slippery slope. Once you justify violating a journalistic principle in one case, it becomes easier to justify violating it in other cases. Like, for instance, looking retrospectively, to prevent someone you think,…

I am confident Hillary is preparing to debate the hypothetically best Donald Trump, not the worst one.

Maybe I’m too sensitive to plausibility in without-attribution gossip, but what is the shortest period of time that could pass from the time you sent someone to a supermarket - even one nearby -- and the time you finished making the Ore-Ida’s in your kitchen? Even if a chef once served Ore-Idas to DJT to his…

I wonder how many hits #vacantions got?

“Warren Buffet was paying the same amount of taxes as his secretary.”

“Because he’s using the parenthetical phrase as evidence that the adjective is correct.”

My guess: he heard an aide use the phrase “paragon of virtue” the day before and latched onto it.

I would love it if ESPN would get rid of the strike box graphic in broadcasts of baseball games -- or save it for replays. I want to form my own wrong-headed opinions about whether it was a ball or strike and not become reliant on machine measurements. And long interviews in the broadcast booth where they forget about…

“Send your official male representative in your place...”

“Listen, you have two different sociopaths debating each other... Trump is... Hilldawg is a machiavellian and will pretty much do or say anything to get into a position of power.”

Even if we elect gun-control friendly majorities in both houses and in the White House, it will be years before gun control laws will make a measurable difference. Gun rights supporters worry about a slippery slope, but we are already at the bottom of a steep slippery slope where the NRA has gotten nearly everything…

How did Trump do good? Because MacArther would never have publicly announced a plan to defeat Isis, duh. And getting rid of regulations will bring jobs flowing back into the US. Imagine how many coal mines will open again if mine owners no longer have to protect workers from black lung or mine explosions. American…

Half a bottle of scotch and the cat got a treat when Trump was speaking because his voice hurts her ears and she was anxious about the future of our country.