Yeah, you don’t take someone who abused a power/privilege dynamic like a perceived mentor relationship, find out about said abuse, and then ease them into a different mentor relationship and call it therapy. What is this, the Catholic church?

Also, R. Kelly. That dude needs to be in jail.

Wow, an interesting take I hadn’t considered. I’m seriously glad to read your input.

Exactly. The Merchant Marine Act, as one example, squeezed them financially and hindered their ability to make much needed infrastructure improvements that would have allowed for better disaster preparations and resilience. By keeping much sea cargo traffic funneled to the mainland and away from the island territory…

One of the more popular print papers where I live is free and available in many local hangouts. They make their profit on ad revenue. The advertising is expensive compared to other media, but the circulation numbers and accessibility of an audience that doesn’t have to buy it to consume it keeps things floating.

I got shingles when working a graveyard shift and trying to go to college.

Unfortunately, the respect wasn’t mutual as McCain had remarked in the past:

I guess I’m implying how long would it have been before he finally did something to turn the tide of public worship against him? When he was killed he still had mountains of fans. Imagine keeping up such an invincible facade in the age of the internet. We won’t put up with Depp’s spousal abuse, Tambor’s temper…

That show is often far more real than it has any right to be. The “thoughts and prayers” episode in particular was a treat.

Maybe George Harrison also wouldn’t have done the Traveling Wilburys because he’d have been too busy on a Beatles reunion fueled on by mountains of cocaine. I’d say we got the better timeline.

On one hand, fuck Chapman. That guy’s nuts and it’s probably the sort of nuts for which there’s no honest treatment.

I think Trump understands Goodfellas and The Godfather about as much as he understands Apocalypse Now. He just likes the action scenes, romanticizes the supposed heroes of the screens, doesn’t care about the character development or depth of dialogue, and never gets the moral point to any of the tales.

The Clinton/Lewinsky scandal didn’t start out as being all about the sex. Sex with a porn star is only illegal if things like consent are questionable. It was a matter of the cover up being worse than the crime. Committing fraud and financial crimes (possibly even intimidation) to hide the affair is the crime.

I guess someone will be sleeping on the couch for awhile (until he’s sleeping in a cell hopefully)

And, Trump tweeting that he barely knows Weisselberg in 3... 2... 1...

Reminds me of that Meat Loaf song, “Paradise By the Dashboard Light”...

She’s not yet ready to admit that she’s already had 17 from her allotted 15 minutes of fame and wants to squeeze a few more while her book is still charting. She’s nothing if not media-driven.

Sploosh.

Madonna as a person, yes.
Madonna as a pop icon, not so much.