Yeah, I am doing my day-to-evening drinking on this news. What happens when the document releases show collusion or even bribery? Does the guy still get to be head of the EPA? Who would prosecute him? Someone in Oklahoma? Jeff Sessions?

Oooooh, bad sign. Kasparov is a smart cookie.

Cool. I used the heart disease comparison because in the history of the fight for HIV treatment, activists used to compare treatment of heart disease (generously researched and funded, and also partly dependent on health choices the patients made,) with treatment for HIV (originally stigmatized and poorly…

Ya know, when you are the identified douchcanoe in the relationship, and have had your sorry self slapped with a restraining order, pushing the boundaries of your custody agreement or spanking your kid when your wife isn’t there is the move of a severely over-entitled guy.

This a sad, satisfying, and complex explanation.

OK, I Lol’d! And I needed that on a Friday!

I loved it, too. So many meanings.

Well, it’s being committed by middle-aged white guys, so....

You’re both right....

You are both right.

Bannon may have. I certainly wouldn’t put it past him!

Well, I knew that! ; )

True ‘dat. That news conference really, really, really, really gave me the willies.

Wow. It really is pretty complicated, isn’t it? Thanks for the explanation!

Not as far as I would like to be.....

Whoa! That aspect had not occurred to me. Cool!

So freaky.

Yeah, I agree with you. There is a lot of shaming that goes on if people are talking about possible the downsides of preventatives. Just as an amateur and fan of science, I would be happier if the prevention regime was biologically very different from the treatment protocol. That way, if one failed, the next step…

In a way, I’m kind of relieved that these cousinfuckers are out of the closet a little more now. On the one hand, it’s bad, because it encourages others. On the other hand, it does lay bare their desires for dominance and control over half of the population more clearly than we have seen in a while.

One hesitates to consider the two components that would make up that conundrum!